People know something is wrong. They feel the country is coming apart. We know we have been robbed. People across the political spectrum are right to be angry: they’ve been ripped off. Not by our “socialist” president and “government” but by the relentless belief in the so-called “free market” which has been a clever cover for the plundering of our nation’s wealth by a handful of people.
And, rather than change that course, we are now accelerating that rip-off by asking the people to dig into their wallets—again—by swallowing cuts to basic services all in the name of a phantom crisis.
There is no government deficit or debt “crisis”.
That said, I do not think it is worth spending all our energy pointing fingers at various political leaders—or waiting for them to save our butts by turning their backs on a “crisis” that they have invested a lot of energy in and political capital to create. They won’t.
We can’t wait around for the network of “progressive” organizations who sat by as the crisis unfolded and had virtually no response. They will not take risks—they haven’t even admitted that they played no role when Occupy Wall Street changed the nation’s narrative.
We have to demand from leaders that they take risks—which may make them unpopular among their foundation funders or rich donors. But, if they won’t take risks, they should get out of the way and resign so others can seize the moment.
We just have to act.
There is no time.
