Endgame, or Game Over?
I believe that we are reaching a critical juncture in the conservative anti-tax, anti-government campaign. For years the conservatives have been subjecting the citizenry to a 'cut of a thousand deaths' campaign. Small indignities, largely unnoticed at the time, but continuously mounting. Fewer postal deliveries, cutbacks in schools, shorter hours at public libraries, longer lines at airport security, etc. And most of these cuts have been waged within a class warfare strategy: poor schools have suffered more than middle-class schools, as just one example. But we are nearing the end of this game. We are at the point where the reckless deficit spending of our so-called president, and the anti-tax zeal of conservatives in congress, leave nothing but fiscal brutality as a way out. The question is, however, what flavor will the people demand: slashing of popular programs, or tax increases?
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