Originally posted by Parallax They always are when they go against the Libs, aren't they?
Frankly, it just goes to how the remaining 29 percent of Americans who even call themselves Republicans at this point are just that out of touch. Could it be the same people who actually claim to *believe* the Republicans at this point? Since that seems to be the Republican's tactics, blame Democrats for what they were so proudly claiming no one could stop them from doing... and claim it's 'communism' to turn around and not do it more, while trying to blame a few Democrats for their entire platform.
Those figures actually are actually pretty close to how people break down by party, last I saw.
Not that Democrats were tremendously effective during the 'imperial presidency' and Republicans swinging their majority like a beating-stick, ... not to pretend that most of *them* aren't almost as bad in terms of giving the big money what it wants, but all Fox propaganda aside, it's not hard for anyone to see *who did all the things that screwed up the economy.* The deregulation, the spend-spend-spend, consumers, 'the fundamentals of the economy is strong... ' They were claiming these things were a wonderful thing at the time.
Then, of course, when things go wrong, some of the same conservative pols who previously were freezing out any other interests than their own will be saying, See, 'This is your fault, too, just goes to show 'politicians' are awful. ' That's sort of as close to an admission of error as you get. Include yourself in pointing the finger at someone else, later to back out of admitting you had anything to do with it at all.
Whether you want to blame *those who did it,* as including those who *didn't stop it* or not, polls keep showing some twenty to twenty nine percent believe things which are demonstrably-untrue. Even about the very content of a referendum they're voting for. (most of them get their 'news' from Fox.)
What would you like to bet that percentage overlaps quite a bit?