I don’t imagine that many people are surprised that this entire debt ceiling fiasco has been nothing more than political theater that benefits the rich and at best does nothing for 98% of the American people.
Of course at worst this accelerates the downward economic spiral and destroys peoples’ lives.
No, now that I think of it, that’s what it does by design. To be worse it would actually have to cut all discretionary spending immediately, triple taxes on the middle class and cut all taxes on the rich.
This has all been staging for everyone’s next campaign. Remember, the people who promise to take away your pain next election are the ones who caused it in the first place. They don’t care who they hurt as long as they have their power.*
We can take it away from them, you know. No matter how many millions they get in contributions it doesn’t count unless they get the votes.**
Mitch McConnell said it himself when he said that since elections didn’t get him what he wanted he’d find another way to do it. Well, we just saw it happen. The nation’s economy was just held hostage – basically, the American people were threatened with harm if a few politicians weren’t allowed to harm them. Kind of like saying if you don’t let me shoot this hostage I’ll shoot this hostage.
They just shot the hostage.
Expect this to happen again, and in ways that will further hurt the country.
This is broken democracy.
* A few thought they were doing the only thing they could do under the circumstances. I think most of them were wrong.
** Though we do need to make sure the elections aren’t stolen because the stage is already set for that.
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