This is...alarming

[meirwen_1988]

For the record, I really believe that a healthy, ethical business is a good thing. I really believe that everyone benefits from creating an environment that encourages healthy, ethical commercial enterprises. I have some skepticism about the alignment of my definition of "healthy and ethical" and that of most business leaders, though I tend to think many successful small businessmen would fit comfortably within my personal parameters.

That said, this scares me. Deeply. Revisionist restructuring of public space and public statements and visions of history in my life have always been most closely associated with the countries, political philosophies, and political leaders we, as a nation, have fought against, decried, and despised.

If Reich is reporting events correctly, this is...terrible.

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[keastree.livejournal.com]

The Plutocratic Arm of the Republican Party is pretty callous, and callous enough to be behind a lot of the arguably anti-labor behavior we're seeing in multiple places.

However, I -really- want independent verification on Reich's claims.

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/03/23/politics/maine-governor-remove-labor-mural-from-labor-dept/

[sheapottery.livejournal.com]

I saw it on several news stations up here in Boston. The Gov of Maine is really doing this.

[baronsteffan.livejournal.com]

I saw this a couple of days ago and wonder how this was going to improve the business environment in Maine. I suppose it is simply part of their general attack on all the things that make life worth living in the US.

The Republican party is doing their damnest to not get reelected in the next general election. I don't understand how they feel that their general assault on women and the general population is not going to get noticed.

I guess they feel that they hold enough votes to be "bold" in their assault.

[unique_name_123]

When you say "bold", you mean "really stupid"? Because that is how I view it. It is rare to even have a shot at booting an incumbent president, and they have the shot, but they aren't even going to make it a race the way they are going.

[baronsteffan.livejournal.com]

Yes, those are the words that were going though my head with I put that word down. I just don't understand what they are doing and why the general populace (IE - the people that elect them) would put up with it.

Unfortunately I'm a democrat in a district that the republican candidate won by 562 votes (less than .3%). I don't like her politics (straight party line) and I don't think she is voting for the people and in particular the 49.9% who didn't vote for her.

[sillyviking.livejournal.com]

The willful destruction of history is alarming, but nothing new. The Right has been re-writing the history of the mid-20th century for years. They call the left (which is to say anyone who does not agree with them) liberal socialists, and then blame them for fascism and the Nazis.

That they do not explain fascism and Nazism shows that they haven't studied history and the ideologies behind these totalitarian, war-mongering moments. For the Right, what is important is the exercise in rhetoric, not the actual facts.