Well, it looks like the Republicans took last night's elections, and it looks like they might be getting the momentum back to retake the White House in 2012 due to a strong grass roots campaign against Obama and his policies.
But, if anyone is looking for the Republicans to make any great changes for the better for the majority of citizens in this country once they get back in office, then I highly suspect they are wrong. The Republicans will try to do what they've always done. Favor the rich and not do anything much at all to help out the majority of the citizens -- those people making under $30,000 a year to become any better off than they are. At best, they will try to get Bush's policies (that almost destroyed the country) up and running again and at worst they will actually carry a vendetta against the poorer citizens that helped to get Obama elected.
One thing we know is that the free enterprise system might be nice in theory, but it doesn't work in reality because most businesses and companies have policies or political structures within themselves to keep most employees from reaching the top and that are heavily in favor of bootlickers, family members, and cronies of those at the top ever being the ones that make it very far in the companies. Most company health insurance policies at low paying jobs will hardly cover the most routine surgeries and not even begin to pay for any catastrophic illnesses.
In many ways, The Republicans get by with what they do because they almost have an ingrained sense that the masses of the poor are placid and lazy and will always go along with whatever is going on in society.
However, this hasn't always been true. There have been times in our country when the masses of the poor have stood up for themselves. The Union and Company Coalminer Wars. Times when men like John Dillinger, Jesse and Frank James, Pretty Boy Floyd, and people like Bonnie and Clyde were seen as heroes by many.
Do you think Republican victory and continuation of old practices that keep the rich rich and the poor poor will wake the poor up this time and lead to the same type of climate in the country that produced the legendary outlaws mentioned above?
