Yes I certainly do think so. The separation is just that they're not the SAME thing, that's all.

Personally, I think TV is one of the worst things that has ever happened to our country. It aims for the lowest common denominator, and then it keeps lowering it.

An unlikely alignment of working class voters determined the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election. An aspiring ethnic working class network sought relief and change from politically sponsored economic regression and discrimination impacting their standard of living and future.

When pulling the voting lever, tens of millions of citizens understood that they were voting against politicians who seldom represented them and were abusing the power of government on behalf of corporations, plutocrats and special interest organizations whose political agendas were undermining their growing stake in the American Dream.

Survival instincts in some and common sense in others coalesced on a day reserved to give performance feedback to the political system at large. When staring at a two box selection of poor choices, Obama stood out as the low risk choice. When the votes were tabulated across the nation, the political establishment discovered in the vote count that the ethnic working class whose dynamic closely mirrors the “old fashion” American Dream had soundly rejected the “American Dream impersonator.”

Why would any working class citizen vote to elect a President that surrounded himself with Bush advisors, was a product of Wall Street, promised another round of 20% tax cuts for the wealthy, proudly brandished his record on exporting working class jobs overseas, championed another war in the Middle East on behalf of Israel and whose only campaign strategy was “Trust Me.”

What is clear from the 2012 election is that we can detect a shifting political tide from the 2010 mid-term election. The majority of Americans who voted in this election saw Mitt Romney as a front man for a coalition sponsoring a fraudulent version of the American Dream. The Republican version of the American Dream has become a tyranny against the working class where a significant amount of the wealth flowing to the plutocrats is derived by exploiting and destroying other people’s lives.

The wholesale exporting of working class jobs, the Federal Reserve’s inflation targeting and monetary policies, long term declining wage trends and institutionalized government sponsored price gouging practices on behalf of corporations ranging from healthcare services, usury rates, insurance and energy costs have collapsed the standard of living for tens of millions of workers.

The class warfare inferno sponsored by Republicans is now targeting the IOU’s owed the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Trust Funds. In our dying economy, these programs whose benefit checks are spent in local communities represent life support to both the recipient and the community.

Luckily in this election, the Republican class warfare machine got tripped up by their small minded policies, candidates saying silly stupid things and tests of ideological purity. The largess of America’s aspiring non-white working class made up of Latinos, Blacks, Asians and independent women along with a large demographic of young people righteously rejected the Republican platform.

Even in the face of a crushing election defeat, the Republicans quickly refreshed their class warfare agenda branding citizens as either “makers” or “takers”. The relentless continuation of this antagonistic degrading approach while appealing to their base of secessionists, Christian zealots and racists reflects the myopic, un-American, hollow and shallow spiritual foundation behind the Republican brand.

At the same time, the first post election words out of Speaker Boehner’s mouth were to declare that the entitlement programs were the primary driver of the deficit which is just a boldface lie. The facts clearly show that the entire $16 trillion national debt has been spent outside the boundaries of the nation’s Trust Funds which remain fully funded. https://www.lsnewsgroup.com/2012/10/27/deconstructing-americas-tax-and-budget-fraud/

After being tethered to a rigged tax system for over three decades, America is approaching the apex in a cycle of historic wealth concentration ($60 trillion) accruing to a small but politically connected group of stakeholders. This means that the socialist boogieman (so called entitlement programs) that is inserted like a piñata into every budget negotiation for Republicans to break open and raid is just another attempt to skim assets off the working class balance sheet and onto the balance sheet of the plutocrats. There is absolutely no justification to include entitlement Trust Funds in any budget negotiation until after the 2020 election.

The proper way to wean the nation off government assistance and social programs is to first build an efficient economy and operate the nation using a balanced budget. This road has been blockaded by the financial community, military industrial complex, corporations and the tax avoidance syndicate because an efficient economy regulated by a balanced budget would significantly lower prices and fees paid by consumers and thus lower profits that are converted into tax free wealth.

In addition, an efficient driven economy would strip this coalition of their government subsidies, price protections, guaranteed government contracts, and unearned wealth that runs into the trillions of dollars.

In spite of voter suppression tactics and gerrymander rigging in several key battle ground states, the 2012 election was pretty much a rout. President Obama’s re-election effectively tazers, at least for the short term, the Republican’s frontal assault on the working class.

Based on the 2012 election demographic results, the Republican Party’s facade is clearly melting away revealing the fascist’s coup that has run America’s economy into the ground and destroyed tens of millions of working class livelihoods. It remains to be seen if this serendipitous working class rejection of the Republican class warfare model will become a blue contagion in the 2016 election. Read more about the forensics of class warfare at www.solonsays.com.

https://www.lsnewsgroup.com/2012/11/15/the-republican-facade-is-melting-away/

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