Independents Acceptance of GOP's Alternate State Of Reality Will Be Mitigated

Independent voters turning against the President and the Democrats after the mostly successful implementation of the policies the President promised and they supported, shows Republican success in creating an alternate state of reality and the Democrats ineptitude in presenting what was done, why it was done, and the role Republicans played in slowing down policies to assist small business in mitigating this Great Recession. It should be noted that this Great Recession is the result of 30 years of supply side economics, a tax policy supporting the transfer of wealth from the middleclass to the top 2%, lack of regulation that enabled the creation of financial instruments that while making many wealthy, almost brought down the world economic system, and the policies that facilitated the outsourcing permanently of American jobs.

Only in an alternate state of reality is a healthcare reform bill in which the deliverer of healthcare is private and the insurance companies paying for healthcare is private can it be called a government takeover. Only in a state of alternate reality can the saving of thousands of manufacturing jobs that ultimately allowed the American auto industry to survive be characterized as a failure. Only in a state of alternate reality is a stimulus that prevented the complete contraction of the US economy be characterized as a failure. Only in an alternate state of reality is the regulation of the financial industry that almost brought down the world economy a bad thing.

For the last 21 months Democrats have been governing as Republicans were posturing. It is impossible to correct 30 years of economic mismanagement in 21 months. The failure of Democrats to inform the American citizens of the relatively long path it will take to get us out of this economic morass because of the structural defect in our economy that can only be mitigated by large investments in our industries is a cause of much of the current angst in the country. As the effect of these investment are realized the semblance of reality promoted by Republicans will cease to have the corrosive effect it currently has on our body politic.