Subject: [permaculture] OT: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:28:37 -0400
This is such and alarming and accurate article I thought I would Xpost
it here. There appears to be some ayn rand connection with ryan.
Anyone who thinks any rand is cool and therefore ryan must be cool too,
read the following article. Romney-Ryan will be bad news for the world
of permaculture, especially for those permaculturists trying to hang on
financially and stick with their committment to that lifestyle and
livlihood. Otherwise it will be the 60's revisited, tune in and drop
out, survive with help of others (those "others" do not include the
right wing). Don't bother turning on, a waste of time unless it is
through meditation (ever wonder why the Tibetan Buddhist Monks are so
important to world sanity?).
The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty
of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers
Scientific research into the way we think explains the reasons decent
people wind up supporting horrific policies.
August 19, 2012 |
Earlier this year, Democratic operatives looking for the best way to
define Mitt Romney discovered something interesting about Paul Ryan's
budget. The New York Times reported that when the details of his
proposals were run past focus groups, they found that the plan is so
cruel that voters “ simply refused to believe any politician would do
such a thing.”
In addition to phasing out the Earned Income Tax Credit that keeps
millions of American families above the poverty line and cutting funding
for children's healthcare in half, Jonathan Cohn described the “America
that Paul Ryan envisions” like this:
Many millions of working-age Americans would lose health insurance.
Senior citizens would anguish over whether to pay their rent or their
medical bills, in a way they haven’t since the 1960s. Government would
be so starved of resources that, by 2050, it wouldn’t have enough money
for core functions like food inspections and highway maintenance.
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[permaculture] OT: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers,
venaurafarm, 08/20/2012