North Country Public Radio ^ | April 19th, 2011 | Brian Mann
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:58:06 AM by DaoPian
The central Republican message of the Obama era is that these are, at least potentially, the end times. Polls show that a significant percentage of the GOP's base believes fairly out-there stuff about the world we live in.
President Obama himself may well be a foreign-born Manchurian candidate, hell-bent on destroying the American capitalist way of life. Or so the far Right would have you believe.
But even mainstream conservatives espouse a remarkable range of ideas about the fiscal cliff that we are perched upon as the Federal deficit surges, with some claiming that we are close to a Greece-style meltdown.
The problem with this narrative is that it remains, so far, a kind of populist sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Republicans may well ride a wave of anxiety to political victory in 2012, but so far they have offered no ideas that would actually pull the nation back from the brink.(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org ...
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