THE JOKE IS ON US ... 20 Days Since the GOP/FOX Duping of the Century

(posted from The COHEN SIDE show website http://www.cohenside.com/)

Never have so few (42% of the Elecorate) been so wrong, with such great impact. But what now? How do rational citizens who realize the world is not black white take back the dialgoue? How do those who know our society needs to both foster capitalism AND allow government intervention so that its abuses are limited? And how do we remind the country that trickle down ecomonics is no more a solution today than it was in the '80s.

The bottom line is that presidents and congresses are rarely to blame for economic catastrophes. It is generally a purely ecenomic trend (correction) or the abuse of fair practices (the mortgage crisis) that is to blame. And to think any policy will creat a quick recover is ludicrous. But we are the nation of the short term memory - so I am sure the electorate will be angry in a brand new way in 2012. And of course Washington will still be "broken" and "change" will still be what we need.

Of course "real change" would be the removal of big money and lobbyists from their undue influence on our lawmakers and a real removal of pork from the basic expectations of what we want from our representatives. If these real soutions were ever tackeled, social programs that do reall good in the world would not be the targets of misperception they currently are.