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 It’s Official the Right-Wing Has Lost its Mind

By Wise 1 - 4/15/2009 ()

The Sad State of the Failed Republican Party

We commonly refer to members of the Far-Right, here at Soapblox.com, as Right-Wing whack jobs or nut jobs or just plain idiots. It was true in its day, however no euphemism can describe how utterly loony-tunes the Republican fringe has become.

We all know that Rush Limbaugh is hoping for the U.S. to fail just to prove that Rush is right and Obama is wrong. I thought that was, perhaps, the stupidest political move that I had heard up to that point. Especially since the United States has historically bounced back from many a recession and even a few really bad depressions. I had no idea that things would only downward spiral into the realm of downright insanity.

Rush Limbaugh is a fat moron who is sinking the Republican Party

When recently elected GOP Party Chairman Michael Steel began talking about Hip-Hop-ifying the Republican Party, that should have been my first clue that things would only get worse for a party so badly beaten, they don’t control a single plank of government and by a long-shot.

Then the Far-Right Fox News network’s key loudmouth lie machines began to cater …

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 Communities Begin Printing Their Own Currency

By Wise 1 - 4/8/2009 ()

locally printed currency the Detroit Cheers

A sign of how bad this recession is becoming, look no further than Motor City, USA. Detroit housing values are cheaper than some of the cars they are famous for producing and the economy is in such a state of disorder that they are printing their own currency called the Detroit Cheers.

Other cities too from North Carolina to Massachusetts are issuing their own currencies as well. It’s pitched as a way of keeping currency value local so value is not transferred to other regions. It was an excepted practice during the Great Depression.

It seems like an interesting idea, however to be honest it is the last thing I would have thought could happen in our supposedly advanced economic system. Just a few years ago, people talked about M2 Capital and that we were slowly becoming a ‘credit society’. The control of the currency system was clearly held by the Federal Reserve and any attempts to create duel currency would be under serious evaluation from the top bankers and media establishment.

Now, is seems with the news being as grim as it is, CBS ran this story in its ‘Silver Linings’ section, speaking …

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 The Third Party Debate

By Wise 1 - 4/7/2009 ()

newt the newt gingrich

I have spoken here at soapblox.com about a potential third party. I am not 100% behind this idea though I do believe it to be a possibility, especially when I hear prominent Republican figures like Newt the newt Gingrich talking of one.

Third parties, traditionally in American democracy, are avenues of complaint. The Populist “bull-moose” Party got a whole lot done as it lobbied the Democrat Administration of Wilson in the early 20th Century, as did the Know-Nothings did with the Republicans in the 1880s. The Peace and Freedom candidates leaned on the Dems in the 1960s and other third parties like the Free Silver Party have contributed significantly to the planks of the two major parties. The problem is that our current political system cannot support more than two parties. When the Whig Party collapsed in the 1850s, the Republican Party was born, devoted solely to the abolishment of slavery. The Whig Party too was born of the collapse of the Federalist Party.

So could the Republican Party collapse and a newer more Conservative Party be born? Or perhaps it’s the Pro-Business Elite that will break away and form the Business Party?

It is …

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 Excess Reagan Sparked a New Age of Responsibility?

By Wise 1 - 4/5/2009 ()

reagan contradiction

It seems a bit too uncomfortable to speak in post-Bush talk these days. Just a few months ago, we witnessed the death of the Bush Age of Republican politics. Ever since, I’ve had this funny feeling in the back of my mind that closely resembles hope. Yes, hope! It is the hope that the age of Far-Right Republicanism is over. This hope is fueled by evidence here and there that confirm the Age of Reagan is at a close.

You really know that the nail is in the coffin when Time Magazine runs an article titled “The End of Excess: Is this Crisis Good for America”. The head of the article contains two contrasting photos, a photo of Ronald Reagan in a cowboy hat and a profile shot of Barrack Obama with a serious look on his face.

Obviously what is implied by such contrast is what we have talked about here at Soapblox.com for years: the end of 30 years of Republican domination in the United States Government. Some Soapblox readers may remember the story titled “The End of Reagan” written way back in 2007 (man how time flies). After months of …

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