I almost didn't write this. I knew that for informed, thinking
people, most of what I want to say is known. However I considered that
if I can motivate one person to talk to a relative or a friend who is
ignorant of the facts, maybe send the link to this article, or to take
action of any sort to help save the tattered remnants of our democracy,
it is an effort worth making.
Right now it may already be too late to save our democracy.
The
powerful people who pull the strings of government believe only they
should decide our fate and they manipulate the ignorant, xenophobic,
racist, paranoid elements of our society to act as their brownshirt foot
soldiers (aka the Tea party) to push their agenda forward. They simply
use the fear of un-American, brown, black, un-christian, gay "others" to
supply simple targets for their hate. The fear mongers like Limbaugh
and the propaganda arm of the GOP (fox news) dish up the easy lies and
supply the "facts" the faithful love to hear. Much easier than actual
fact checking and logic. This is how they get so many middle class and
lower class whites to work against their own self interests. It would
seem that anyone with a modicum of intellectual curiosity would HAVE to
notice facts such as, over the past few decades the wealth gap has grown
by incredible leaps and bounds, until now the top 20% control almost
90% of our wealth and it seems they would have serious reservations
about supporting the obviously plutocratic agenda of the 1% and their
foot soldiers, the GOP.
I mean, come on! the
GOP! The same guy's who want to take away social security from your mom
and dad, cut help for veterans, take away women,s rights, cut help for
the poor, allow health insurance companies to continue screwing
americans and drop them when they get sick...all so they can give their
wealthy corporate masters more tax cuts! What sane working class person
would even consider voting for these shills for the 1%?
Consider
how willfully ignorant it is to ignore the fact that millions of
children in america are hungry and illiterate. That millions of seniors
and veterans are homeless and jobless and yet, incredibly, working class
Tea party types choose to support Mitt Romney as he builds a car
elevator in his latest mansion. They willingly buy the tired old lie
that you can't raise taxes on the "job creators"" which is doubly
hypocritical since Romney's history of vulture capitalism has cost so
many american jobs and history has proved that the old "trickle down"
approach has NEVER worked for anyone but the wealthy.
Lloyd Blankfein CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs may have said it best.
"After
all we've been through in recent years, there's no greater privilege
than watching it (the wealth gap) grow bigger and bigger each day. There
may be a few naysayers who worry that if it gets any wider, the whole
thing will collapse upon itself and take millions of people down with
it, but I for one am willing to take that chance." Added Blankfein,
"Besides, something tells me I'd probably make it out okay."
Yeah! There's that "every man for himself" philosophy that republicans love so much.
Of
course it is also important to understand that are also some in the
democratic party who cater to special interests and sometimes don't have
the courage to remember it is the people, not the banks or other
special interests that they serve... and they need to be held
accountable.
All this is nothing new. History
is simply repeating itself. It's just the incredibly rapid pace which
wealth transfer has taken place over the last 30 years that is so
alarming. Remember the old saw, "those who don't learn from the past"?
The only change is that now now the last line would be "are doomed to
get screwed"!
However it is the apathetic
americans that simply choose to ignore politics and that don't bother to
vote or get involved in politics who may just seal the fate of our
democracy. How many relatives or friends do you know that can tell you
which Kardashian is involved with what pro ballplayer, but don't know
what the 'citizens united' decision is? Or what it is doing to american
politics. Of course they usually have an easy excuse like "they are all
crooks" or "nothing I do will make any difference". Make no mistake,
these are the people that MUST be reached.
Over
the past few decades the GOP (aka the 1%) has succeeded in loading our
federal courts (including SCOTUS) with right wing ideologues in order to
facilitate advancing their plutocratic agenda. You have only to do a
bit of casual research to uncover proof like the "Citibank plutonomy
memo" to find the truth. In this memo and other documents, it is made
clear the main obstruction to the complete control they seek, is the
"one person one vote' obstruction" which of course they are attempting
to correct with their voter suppression moves" their rationale is the
absurd claim it is an attempt to control (non existent) voter fraud.
If
you doubt the extent of control the 1% now have over our government,
consider this. Even president Obama, who I believe to be a decent,
honest man, was afraid to stand against the banks. He left pretty much
the same bunch of greedy crooks in charge that caused our financial
meltdown under Bush. Now, when he finally tries to put a few tepid
regulations in place to keep the wild west, greed is good derivative
type games that crashed the economy from happening again... hundreds of
millions are poured into republican coffers to beat him down. "citizens
united" rears it's ugly head again.
I'm sorry
but the fact that ANYONE is taking the collection of misfits, liars and
racists that passes for the "new" GOP seriously, is mind numbing. I
think republican David Brooks may have summed it up nicely when he said
"The republican party may no longer be a normal party. It has become a
clearing house for religious fanatics, Ayn Rand groupie weirdos and
angry racists, driven literally mad by seeing a black man in the white
house".
Consider that president Obama
cooperated with the Bush plan to save the U.S. banking system (which we
are told worked). He has slowly turned around the economy that the Bush
and GOP led deregulation almost destroyed. This in spite of the lunatic
opposition he has faced from the Tea party led republicans, including a
record number of filibusters to block every attempt at recovery. Oh
btw, the president also killed public enemy #1 (which the macho flag
waving conservatives couldn't do). Gave millions of americans tax
breaks. Provided health coverage to millions of vulnerable americans.
Saved the american auto industry and millions of jobs (when Romney
wanted to let them fail) and restored our reputation around the world.
Yet Romney and the republicans simply spew dishonest claims that he has
failed as president and we need to go back to the trickle down policies
that caused the crash in the first place.
Oh
yeah, the "fact" is our shattered economy is slowly but surely
recovering, no matter what lies the republican plutocrats tell you.
When
some unstable imbecile like Bachman, Rand Paul, Allen West or any of
the bizarre collection of right wing liars and hypocrites accuse the
president of a host of obviously untrue, vile accusations (which are
immediately spread around the fox news echo chamber as fact), and begin
their angry completely untrue ranting, too many in the mainstream media
who pass themselves off as journalists, meekly pander to them and give
power to their lies. They lack the guts to simply call a lie a lie! I
mean why in hell did the mainstream media never have the guts to point
out the painfully obvious fact that the field of republicans that ran
for president was the most ignorant, unqualified, dishonest collection
of misfits (with the exception of John Huntsman and Buddy Romer who the
Teapublicans rejected) in the history of the United States?
For
the thinking people who are paying attention and have the honesty to be
open to facts, those facts will inexorably lead them away from the
greed, blatant cynicism and hypocrisy of the republican party. How can
you vote for someone like Romney who has reversed every position and is
willing to say anything to pander to the lowest elements of the far
right?
In the past few weeks the winner of the
GOP presidential luny lottery, Mitt Romney has dishonestly edited the
presidents words and even his own appearance before the NAACP to create
ads that are in essence LIES! Even as I write this, I hear of the latest
lie Romney has begun pushing. Now he is claiming that president Obama
is going to remove any incentive for the unemployed to work! He claims
the president just wants the lazy welfare types (racist dog whistle) to
get checks without ever having to work! (see below) This is of course
completely fabricated B.S.
Make
no mistake, all the attempts by the cowardly elements of mainstream
media to create a false equivalency are absurd. Romney creates obvious
lies and makes things up whole cloth continually. Yet when an ad
claiming Romney's company, "Bain' shipped american jobs offshore, Romney
dishonestly claims those things happened while he was running the
Olympic games. Of course he was still CEO and owner of the company.
Still, he denies he had any control over that company. In fact, there is
video of him saying that things like blind trusts are a "smoke screens"
and 'common sense tells us that a CEO still calls the shots in a
company he owns'. But in spite of facts, Romney whines he did not know
anything and was out of the loop, and hypocritically claims president
Obama is lying. Then predictably, we hear "they both do it!" From much
of the mainstream media.
The tepid response of
the Sunday morning political pundits when questioning conservatives
about these Romney lies is usually something like "Democrats say you
have quoted the president out of context", because they (the
newscasters) lack the guts to simply point out the obvious truth! Then
these cowardly talking heads meekly give the bellicose republicans a
pass, allow them to double down on their lies and move on to a more
comfortable subject. Thank god for the lone voice in the darkness of
mainstream media, MSNBC.
Oh! btw"someone please
tell the president to keep the predicate close to the subject, this
will at least make it more obvious when he is quoted out of context.
Also if you have his ear, PLEASE tell him to run the exact ad the
conservatives are now running where they say- "he promised to fix the
economy and create jobs"and what has he done?"... At this point cut in
with the simple truth! HAD EVERY ATTEMPT TO HELP AMERICA RECOVER BLOCKED
BY REPUBLICANS!
Look, it's going to be a
tough road, what with citizens united allowing a small group of
billionaires (american and foreign) to spend unlimited amounts to buy
elections. However it is absolutely imperative that we the people stand
against this axis of evil.
Please share this
and all like messages with any uninvolved, ignorant friends and
relatives. We must try to educate them to the facts because it really is
nothing less than a battle for american democracy. If we lose, the
apathetic bystanders who couldn't be bothered to participate in
supporting our country by voting, will be just as guilty of our
destruction as the greedy 1% and the ignorant brownshirt racists.
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