Enabling

So now its their turn.  After six years of obstructing every thing they can, of refusing to assist in any way health care reform, filibustering everything, refusing to approve hardly any administrative officials, the strategy has worked.

The American People, all 1/4 of eligible voters who bothered to vote, have sent a message that non-governing works.

We played with that nonsense in the great state of California for over 30 years.  Prop 13 ushered in a whole host of politicians, Ronald Reagan being the most well known, who propagated the myth that the best government was the one who governed least.

So for 30 years we cut taxes, put in an insane rule that 2/3 majorities for any increase in taxes but a simple majority could reduce taxes.  Republicans took a no tax increase pledge, and our government slowly starved to death.

And we as Democrats we enabled this behavior. We tried to compromise, the right went further right, we tried to accommodate,  more schools closed, we tried to negotiate, college tuitions went higher and higher; everything liberals did was rebuffed by a zealot led right wing Republican Party.

And along came Barack Obama and the Iraq War.  Suddenly the idea of small government fighting a big war while cutting taxes created a huge deficit, and de-regulation led us into a massive recession.

We basically repeated the sins on the 20s, ignoring the environment, and enabling the foolishness that the pursuit of profit in any way possible, would magically cure all ills.

It didn't during the Teapot Dome Scandal, the bust and boom cycle of the late 1800s, and in 1929.  But we Democrats enabled it.

We looked the other way as more and more people lost their homes to crooked mortgage lenders, more were made homeless, and veterans were treated like crap for service in a war that was more about George W. getting even  with a dictator for threatening his father than any national security concern.

We stood by as the United States threw trillions of dollars away and destabilized the Middle East all for oil.

Meanwhile conservatives seemed to have a death wish, refusing to compromise on anything, pure to their principles.  After 2012 it looked like they finally had done it, being crushed in an election that left them finally to confront a radical right wing that was leading them to irrelevancy.

Then we enabled them again by not finishing them off.  We apologized for our President, one even refused to admit she voted for the President and was crushed for her lack of honesty and loyalty.

And now we sit with a majority of cons and only the President in the way of rolling back the actions that saved the country from another great depression.

Meanwhile the Supreme Court yesterday took on a case that could gut the Affordable Care Act over a typo in the law...

Usually Congress would have long ago done follow up legislation to fix these common errors in language, but not the conservative Congress.  No, we have enabled their behavior,  we  have rewarded non-cooperation and obstructionism.

So we, all Americans will get what we deserve.  We will get what California got for almost 40 years, drops in services, deficits, pot holes, high tuition that is killing the American Dream, a medical system that is 35th in the world, poverty, and the fatal attraction that less is more regarding good government.

We get the government we deserve, and right now we don't deserve much.