GOP Shock Doctrine: What Gov't Shutdown And Other GOP Assaults on Democracy Are Really All About

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on April 7, 2011, Printed on April 9, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150537/gop_shock_doctrine%3A_what_gov%27t_shutdown_and_other_gop_assaults_on_democracy_are_really_all_about

The Republicans' imminent threat to shut down the government, the right's assault on public workers, its spending- and tax-cap proposals, the successful campaign to shut down ACORN and attempts now underway to defund Planned Parenthood and NPR and, most prominently, Paul Ryan's plan to dismantle Medicare all have one thing in common: they're about entrenching conservative ideological preferences in the law in ways that future legislators will have a hard time undoing.

All of these efforts are ultimately about subverting democracy, which is, for the right, they're non-negotiable.