Sorry, but 2010 was an anomoly. We saw the "real" republican party when Bush was president and the pubbies held the house and senate. Not much different in spending and regulations. Of course the dems have REALLY ramped it up, but the only difference is just how quikly the republic will be destroyed.
I no longer believe that the republic is savable, it's rotted from the inside, and the corrupt opportunists of both sides have ensured they'll have majorities from this point on.
Simply put, the USA is dead, and we're now living in the remnants that will continue to swirl around the drain for a while. But eventually, the country will collapse, having become a defacto "democracy" and devolve into a totalitarian state of some sort.
I honestly do not believe that enough men or women of character will come together to reform the republic; That the confluence of men and events in the 1770s was a once in all of history event, and will never happen again.
When that collapse comes, I'm fairly certain I won't survive it: My health isn't very good, and it seems it's getting worse. So I'll be up for evaluation in front of Obama's "death panels" pretty early in... I'm glad I never had children, and I pity my nephews and nieces, especially knowing that every one of their parents voted hard left dem.
Sorry to be so depressing, but I think that we've lost it all.
Mark
Mark, good post. I agree with everything you said. However, I have some optimism that when the collapse happens, hopefully the republic will dissolve into the separate states like the former USSR. Here in Texas we will be okay. However, some of the remaining states that can’t or won’t break free will be embraced by a Totalitarian Marxist dictatorship that we are only beginning to glimpse the extent of the tyranny.
My situation is similar to yours, though my health is holding up so far, that is, until the second--and likely, fatal--heart attack occurs.
I, too, have no children and I feel sorry for my nephews and nieces. They likely will endure a long-lasting hell on Earth.
The GOP has been terrible lately imo in the debt ceiling caving to the media, and the this “fiscal cliff” bs of the liberal media. But democrat party and democrat Obama and the democrat media have been worse than the GOP especially with their Obamacare.
The anti-GOP'rs are wrong on the Bush and GOP majority years of 1992 to 2006: As far as I know the GOP held and didn't surrender on the MAJOR socialist and country destroying legislation of the democrats 1. Amnesty for illegals, and 2. socialist healthcare. And Most if not practically all the “GOP spending” that so many here and in the liberal media say the GOP and Bush did in those years was for mandatory spending for democrat Congress legislation as in social security and medicare, medicaid. Yes as much as the liberal media said it was Bush et al that gave us medicare no it was actually democrat congresses. So yes the democrat party has destroyed this country beginning in the 1930’s with the mandatory legislation of social security.
The spending for social security , medicare medicaid etc have nothing to do with the GOP. Bush didn't create social security and medicare ,medicaid which make up most of the spending increases in the Bush years.
Now the media is democrat and the media has ruled the country for the last 100 years and so that is where the blame should be on the media(the democrat party).
Furthermore I ‘ll just give examples of just some of the legislation that I”m aware of from the democrat party that has destroyed this nation:
1. 1965 immigration act: that changed immigration from white Europe to non-white 3rd world immigration poor so we have now 60 million non-white 3rd world immigrants legal and illegal who vote for socialism and big government.
2. Obamacare : no republican and all democrats voted for this the nail in the coffin of the USA and a Republic.
3. Social security another democrat congress socialist mandatory program that every year mandates by law trillions of $ in spending.
4. Medicare same as social security only even more mandatory spending
5. medicaid.
6 .welfare
many more democrat programs.
Yes there are problems with the GOP, including the many RINOS like Boehner etc. but to not realize that the democrat party is the one who destroyed this country is ridiculous. And this communist/democrat Obama stole the election now and is in the process of enslaving us . I don't get it why so many here don't point out the enemy the democrat party.