SmithAntics

Is it just me, or does it feel like most people don’t remember or particularly care who is responsible for our current hell? No one really talks about the causes anymore. Amnesia is settling in, and that is really fucking sad.

The economic meltdown is not an act of nature; it is the predictable result of Republican deregulationist orthodoxy (aided by a healthy assist from bad Democrats). But few seem to care about assigning blame these days. Now there is only fear. And lost jobs. And forgetting. And eventually the pendulum (a stupid and lazy axiomatic construct) will swing back to the Rethugs and they’ll fuck us all again.

With that off my chest, let’s move this blog into the age of Obama.