Since President Obama's election, Fox personalities have expressed opposition to or called for the repeal of virtually every progressive achievement of the 20th century, including: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, 17th Amendment, 16th Amendment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Nuclear arms control, Abortion rights, Labor unions, Department of Education, Unemployment insurance, Environmental Protection Agency, and Progressive taxation.

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by Randall Amster
We are now fully through the looking glass here in the state that has become synonymous with reactionary fear-mongering and institutionalized intolerance. To wit:
Our sitting governor gets stumped during the "introductions" portion of a televised debate, winds up righting herself with the glorious phrase, "I have did everything I could do," and then proceeds to storm out of a post-debate media session when the questions get too hard. The federal government has sued our swaggering Sheriff Joe Arpaio for failing to comply with information requests pertinent to a wider investigation over his Kafkaesque policies and practices. And State Sen. Russell Pearce, sponsor of the infamous SB 1070, continues to prattle on about "anchor babies" and the need to abolish the 14th Amendment to save the republic. This might all be funny if it wasn't indicative of a pattern that is being emulated in other states.

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