Consider “2013 the year of the Apocalypse”, as movie-goers spend the last of their dollars on a “dramatization” of a teen novel and its sequel with futuristic “gladiatorial” contests.
The “doomsday” atmosphere is, no doubt, brought about by the Republican “threats” to destroy the country.
Make no mistake, they can do it just by saying “certain” words, as we were reminded on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy “assassination,” which was caused by the “extremist rhetoric“ in Texas.
Going beyond “uncivil” words, Republicans forced the Democrats to vote for cloture, having Obama sign a bill that had “not one” Republican vote.
In a blatant display of “ideological intransigence,” Republicans were closing hospitals and blocked the expansion of Medicaid funds, as Sally Kohn claimed on CNN.com, in a story that started with “The ObamaCare website is open for business.”
According to Paul Krugman, Republicans were “Scrooges” causing 1.3 million American workers to lose “unemployment” benefits around Christmas “thanks to a perfect marriage of callousness – a complete lack of empathy for the unfortunate – with bad economics.”
Ruth Marcus gave Paul Ryan the Scrooge of the Year Award, and Leon Panetta declared the Republican Congress “the most difficult I’ve seen in 50 years of public service.”
The “apocalyptic” tone, however, was set by Maureen Dowd, the “grand-dame” of visionary writing at the New York Times.
Inspired by the Hunger Games, Maureen let her imagination run “wild into the future,” envisioning our nation’s post-sequester capital in 2084. The model city of Detroit, in contrast, shows us how Democratic policies can succeed in the absence of Republican opposition.
Upon reading Ms. Dowd’s column, I let my imagination run: “what will our future look like” if we let the academics and New York Times columnists “run” our world and “make” our decisions for us.
The “transformation” would truly be “fundamental.”
For an “inspiring” back story, read Ms. Dowd’s “exiting” column:
“Welcome to Ted Cruz’s “Thunderdome”
