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

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

NOTE:This Article is a few days old but examines "shock doctrine" theory, which will continue to be important to understand. Naomi Klien is the author of the book by the title "Shock Doctrine".

"The government appears headed toward a shutdown, but the sticking point is not the budget – Democrats have already caved to most of the GOP's fiscal demands. At issue today are two riders on which the GOP won't budge. The first would defund Planned Parenthood in order to deny low-income women a source of publicly funded healthcare. The second would prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. These things could potentially be restored by a future Congress, but, politically, it's always more difficult to do so – in an inevitable battle with the religious right and energy lobbyists, respectively – than it is to maintain the status quo.

Consider the midnight shenanigans the GOP used to ram Scott Walker's atrocious union-busting bill through the Wisconsin legislature. Collective bargaining rights could potentially be restored by a future legislature, but labor, once defanged, would have no clout to bring to that battle."
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