For your consideration, a rosy eyed Exhibit A:
...After the last insult had been spat from the Senate floor, after final passage of a legislative attempt to do something significant in this messy democracy, a leading voice of the opposition made a public prediction:
“People will be hunting Democrats with dogs,” said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas.
This was 1993, in the fragile first year of Bill Clinton’s presidency, on a vote to raise taxes for the wealthiest 1.2 percent and cut them for the poor and small businesses. That budget bill passed without a single Republican vote.
What followed was the greatest period of peacetime prosperity in modern times, a budget surplus of $559 billion and a president who left office with an approval rating of 66 percent — the highest of any since World War II. But first, some Democrats were indeed hunted, particularly in the South, which has been cleansing itself of the party since the Civil Rights era.
Gramm went on to deregulate the banking industry, setting the stage for a binge of economic nihilism that nearly brought down the world economy.
That fight in 1993 is worth recalling this Christmas Eve, as the voices of the apocalypse rain down on Democrats who dare try to expand health care for their fellow Americans...
Yes, and the Reptilians will be sure to use all the little backdoors being written in the health care bill to give away your mom's respirator to the insurance bank$ters, too.
And the worst depredations will occur after the DINOcrats are all voted out of office, too.
Count on it. It's what happened with the mortgage industry, which was initially deregulated to give the working class a shot at buying a home. The Reptilians took everything the Clintonista did, expanding the level of crony theft from millions into trillions.
There will be no public perception of crisis until it benefits those who would rule us.
Then look for the shit to hit the fan, but only after the fan is pointed in the right direction.
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