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Would you like to see the Republicans for another four years?
Around election time in 2010, despite the vibes I felt around the Vine that the people were getting restless with the new President, having grown quickly disillusioned, as usually happens after any election, especially when expectations are not being fulfilled fast enough, I predicted that they wouldn't get a majority, or might win by a small margin. I guess I didn't believe that presidential support could have dissipated so quickly, especially when he had only been in office barely two years, and that is very little time to make real changes in a country as big as America.
Nevertheless, despite my optimism for the President, the Republicans came back into power with a swagger.
And that might prove the best thing that happened to this country!
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better, and with the Republicans showing their true, controlling powers in the last two years, their anti-women stance, their arrogance, racism, bigotry and divisiveness, while honouring none of their promises, the public has had the chance to get a good look at the MEN in power and they not longer like what they see. Can you imagine if the Democrats came back in and people were now cheesed off with them and voted in a Republican president etc for the next four years? Goodness gracious, the country would be in a terrible state by the time the 2016 elections came round.
The current crop of dinosaurs who are calling themselves Republicans, bearing no relation to the compassionate and sensible GOP of old, need to be ousted in November and, like the Labour party in the UK, kept out of office for years until they get their act together, get out of people's bodies and their bedrooms, and put the country first. That was the best thing that happened to Labour, which got their heads back together and then took office for 12 years. Before that, Labour was a divided, arrogant factional group, living in the past, bullying their way into society and trying to impose their outdated views on voters. Out of office for 18 years, thanks to Margaret Thatcher, today we have a different Labour party, more in tune with British reality and economic concerns instead of just ideology.
The Republicans said what the voters wanted to hear in 2010. The voters bought it, and have been incredibly short changed ever since, as this mysogynistic group of people have proceeded to roll back women's rights, to deny equality to members of the community, and to forget all about the economy and jobs, while virtually doing as they please, as though they were still in power. They have no respect for anyone except their paymasters, which shows just how arrogant they are in their beliefs.
In a nutshell, if the Republicans hadn't won, there would still have been this rosy glow of wishful thinking among voters that the party would be the next saviour of the economy and all the woes. Thanks to the elections of 2010, the American people have had their eyes opened to the reality. They do not have to put up with such a selfish group for the next four years, a group who has forgotten their own purpose for being elected. They will be shown the door instead.
