Too Bad We Can't Legislate Enlightenment

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By Carol Morgan

What is it about September? This month marked the anniversary of the day the towers fell, the month the bottom dropped out of the economy (and no one’s in jail yet!) and the rise and fall of Occupy Wall Street.

Now this…you know what I’m referring to--the fight to shut the economy down unless ACA is defunded. There seems to be a lot of confusion as to who the “real” terrorists are right now. The President called it extortion, but it’s much worse than that. It’s terrorism, plain and simple. The Right holds the entire nation hostage, threatening to grind the nation to a halt. The ransom that will free all of us is the repeal of ACA.

Albert Camus once wrote, "Shall I kill myself or have another cup of coffee?" Camus' statement may be absurd, but it's less absurd than the injuries being inflicted upon us by our Congress.

Let's kill people to punish them for killing, Let's cut the princely sum of a monthly $123.00 SNAP allowance and then give the wealthiest a trillion dollar tax cut--more on this: http://nationalpriorities.org/en/analysis/2013/big-money-tax-breaks/exposing-big-money-tax-breaks/ .

Let’s allow children to go hungry, but let’s ensure that Representative Fincher gets $3.48 million in farm subsidies, all the while he declares, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” Let's build a $30 billion dollar fence to keep people out, yet allow our bridges and highways deteriorate to the point of danger.

I feel as if I'm sliding over to anarchist territory lately. There’s a saturation point where you just want to throw shoes and tomatoes at the political offenders and out of complete frustration with their inertia, you just lose it. You begin to think our political system is beyond redemption. I think many Americans are perilously close to that point.

And that’s the only good thing that’s transpired out of all of this nonsense. Because of Syria and because of this infighting, my Conservative friends and I are starting to agree on some things.

That’s something that Congress needs to worry about.

The Tea Party is confusing themselves with the story of the little engine that could. Yes, I know your corporate health insurance masters demand it, but this kerfuffle is NOT a noble cause. It’s not a patriotic re-enactment of the Founding Fathers. It's serfdom.

It’s too bad we can’t legislate Enlightenment.

Since the eighties, it’s been building--from NAFTA to the death of Glass-Steagall, onto de-taxing and de-regulating corporations and financial institutions. The next step seems to be a world monarchy that’s really a corporation. The cherry-on-top will be the Trans-Pacific Trade deal, an Asian version of NAFTA after a case of Red Bulls with a beer chaser.

For thirty years, there’s been a consistent, yet carefully concealed, pattern. The privileged few get more money and power, while the rest of us have less money and fewer civil rights. It’s socioeconomic cell mitosis. Every single individual in Washington takes their marching orders from the oligarchy they serve, effectively severing us into a society of haves and have-nots.

They rob the world blind while we’re at each other’s throats. Blaming Obama and the Muslims keeps us distracted and divided while they pick our pockets. When SCOTUS ruled that money was equivalent to free speech, the transformation was almost complete.

Perhaps our only solution is an Occupy 2.0 with a little bit more "umph". A little rocket's red glare, shall we? Or perhaps an American hartal, where every worker walks out, refusing to return to work until the Washington D.C. Middle School comes to an agreement.

So the Right wants the nation to shut down? Let’s give them what they want, but this time, we should be the ones in control.

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Carol Morgan is a career counselor, writer, speaker, former Democratic candidate for the Texas House and the award-winning author of Of Tapestry, Time and Tears, a historical fiction about the 1947 Partition of India. Follow her on Twitter @CounselorCarol1, on Facebook: CarolMorgan1 and her writer’s blog at www.carolmorgan.org

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