I’ve been struggling to put into words just how upsetting the GOP’s debt ceiling strategy really is and I think it has to be broken down into three categories:
1. It’s insanely greedy. Refusing to raise taxes on the rich while insisting on cuts to things like social services and college loans is just baldfaced class warfare. America is already too oligarchic, but these negotiating demands are a small step for Boehner and a giant leap for neofeudalism.
2. It’s stupid. It’s just dumb. I don’t know how else to say it. The economics they’re arguing make no sense whatsoever and even setting that aside, only 1 in 5 Americans agrees with their strategy.
3. Finally, let’s just say it: it’s fucking crazy. You’re going to risk sending the world economy into a depression over some tax hikes on the rich??? Really?!?!?! That’s like poisoning an entire city’s drinking water cause you got a parking ticket.