What Happened To These Guys?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those that hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and not clothed."

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was a Republican, a Republican who was against the military industrial complex. A Republican who was for social security, for unemployment benefits, and for labor laws. And he believed that anyone who would actually try to eliminate these programs was "stupid."

This man would clearly never win the Republican nomination these days. I imagine if he were around to see people like Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann get elected, he would have nothing to do with a Republican Party that shifted so dramatically to the authoritarian right. It has become a party that I doubt even Richard Nixon (scandal aside) could get elected in.

I fear for the discourse in this country, when a health care bill that was proposed by Republicans in the mid-90's, would be slammed as an evil, socialist, "government takeover" of the health care industry by the very politicians that proposed it, only 12 years later. It just proves to me that these jack-asses that Americans Corporate Interests elect year after year care nothing about actually improving this country, only about beating the other guy, and winning the next election.

For the sake of our country, can we please wake the hell up?