We're In For A Bumpy Ride, Folks

REP. ALAN GRAYSON: Well, my defeat was part of a wave across the country that had Republicans winning because Democrats didn’t vote. We have the results from the pre-election turnout; we don’t have the results from the Election Day turnout yet. In my district, when you compare that to 2008, the Republican turnout in the early voting was down by 20 percent, and the Democratic turnout in early voting was down by 60 percent. And that wasn’t true just in my district; that was true all around Florida and pretty much the whole country, except for the West Coast and New England. And as a result of that, virtually every Democrat who won in 2008 by less than ten points loss this year. There was only one exception out of twenty-four. And there were forty-four more Democrats who won by more than ten points in 2008 who managed to lose this year, because their Democratic voters didn’t turn up. It’s not a situation where Democrats—Democratic voters decided to vote Republican; it’ a situation where Democratic voters didn’t vote. And when Democrats don’t vote, Democrats can’t win.

Courtesy of Democracy Now.

I can't verify the figures that Rep. Grayson quoted, but try to even imagine that Democratic voters in his district were down 60% from last year, and that tells you something. It means the Republicans have not won based on anything the American people are voicing over preferring Republican ruling to Democrats ruling. It's as I have said all along, that the Republicans will take over in 2010 because the liberal base shut down, stayed home and didn't give a fuck.

And it's going to get uglier based on the fact that the newly elected idiots think they have the American people on their side, so they are threatening to completely dismantle what little Obama was able to accomplish his first two years. Couple that with the Obama administration basically feeling they now need to bend over even more to accommodate the new idiots in Congress.

Try to imagine the chaos.

The backlash to all this might in someway benefit liberals come 2012, that is, if the liberal base can find any people like Grayson to run. That will be difficult, however, in light of the Citizen's United decision that proved in this election cycle corporate dollars, and rich peoples' interests currently are the priority of the Republican party. If things pan out the way the Republicans (and that includes the idiots that became governors of many states) say they want, we will see more debt, rollbacks and cutbacks in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, unemployment benefits, etc. And, we will see more homeless regular Americans, more out of work Americans, more poor Americans that used to be middle class Americans, and more angry Americans. Media will no longer be independent in any fashion as everything will be owned by Murdoch-like minded rich conservatives consumed with the idea they can control the world mind think (just like Hearst did back in his day). Internet freedom will go down the "tubes" and hate speech will become the norm, especially on the airwaves. Money will still be flowing into two countries that should be flowing back into the American economy. Some idiot will push for bombing something in Iran, and all hell will break loose in the Middle East. And, oh look, south of the border, some pretty scary terrorists will be forcing more and more Mexicans into leaving and heading north to get away from the drug cartel's control of their country. Hell, why not throw in a plague or two -- ok, I'm not going to really go there, but the fact that our FDA has no backbone and people keep getting sick and die from their lack of oversight should not be treated lightly. You have to remember that most of Americans who shop at places like Walmart or large grocery chains like Ralphs/Food4Less/Kroeger, these places buy their food, meat and produce NOT from local growers, but from giant corporations that have contempt for regulations that keep their bottom line from growing. What's a few dead Americans to them?

Personally, I'm thinking French Revolution time in the near future. Anyone got a guillotine?