http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/12/1468756/-Abandonment-When-The-Cavalry-Never-Comes?detail=email
think there is a specific underlying angst being expressed in the American political psyche that explains a lot of what is going on currently with Republicans and Democrats rejecting the moderate center simultaneously. I offer the following hypothesis: The great unwashed American electorate is experiencing a fear of abandonment and acting on that fear. We have been overlooked and forgotten and taken for granted and we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
Speaking for myself, this fear had its genesis back in the Bush administration when our country showed itself to be inexplicably incapable of getting water and supplies to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. We watched people scream and cry and beg for assistance on TV. The media was there reporting — Geraldo was there and Shep and Anderson were there, so where was the Red Cross and the National Guard? Harry Connick Jr. and Sean Penn made it in. Where were the rescuers providing food and blankets and diapers? Why did our own country look like a Save the Children ad? WTF was going on?
So f that shit. Katrina was as big a catalyst for voting out Republicans in 2008 as the Iraq War, IMO. We were going to install a new sheriff. New recruits were going to man the forts and make America safe again. Americans were not going to be left high and dry or low and wet ever again.
Except then we were. This time we were left howling with outrage and pain as our homes were taken and foreclosed, the equity making up middle class wealth evaporated, our pensions were depleted and destroyed, and our jobs taken away. We watched in disbelief once again as the people and corporations who were responsible for our pain and loss were not only not punished for their egregious crimes, they were left in place to continue to prosper while their crooked companies were re-capitalized and they continued to make their gargantuan salaries and bonuses.
Our leaders told us it was unfortunate that so many unethical things occurred, but sorry, nothing illegal, nothing to see here. It turns out that not only can you be too big to fail, you can be too big to jail. Once again — no cavalry riding in to round up the bad guys. If anything the bad guys are even better off than when they started. Another WTF moment for the American public.
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