January 6, 2014

How Right-Wing Radicals -- From Nixon to Paul Ryan -- Have Deceived America

www.alternet.org/how-right-wing-radicals-nixon-paul-ryan-have-deceived-america?page=0%2C0
"Without this sort of ideological cover, there would be no mistaking the extremism, recklessness and heartlessness of conservative leaders from Nixon to Reagan to Gingrich to Bush to Ryan, Christie and all the rest today. The U.S. already has the smallest, least effective welfare state of any advanced industrial nation in the West, as conservatives continue mobilizing to dismantle it completely. They have their eye on a Dickensian society, and they think that it looks pretty good. Martin Luther King had his dream, and they’ve got theirs: separate, and extremely unequal."