With One Speech Elizabeth Warren TERRIFIES The Koch Brothers and The Supreme Court

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84. UTTERLY!!!! Mighty proud of her! She just gets better and better.

And her voice is louder and louder, and more and more powerful and compelling.

She's inviting people to think differently about where our country's headed - rather than following along with the fucking reaganthink of "trickle-down" and "millionaires on parade" and bettering the haves and have-mores on the false and misleading PRESUMPTION that you'll somehow get a piece of that if you Just Keep On Voting republi-CON and Keep On Believing the fairy tale.

Our country has to snap out of that. And we've had this constant drumbeat of corporatism that's been force-fed to us and slipped into our morning coffee and our drive-thru McDonalds and our Cialis ads and Ryan Seacrest and the E channel. The CONS made selfishness respectable, starting with ronald reagan - the very most dangerous and damaging individual who ever set foot on a national political stage. The CONS sought to raise IGMFU (I Got Mine, F-U) to the sacramental level. They wanted to turn America away from the idea of the greater good for all rather than the good of a selfish few. The needs of the many, outweighing the needs of the few, or the one. The idea of the collective, the community, and the benefiting of same - just went out with the garbage on trash day during the reagan era. That's what it was all about. Changing the public mind - AWAY from the New Deal, the Great Society, the war on poverty, the sense of team, the sense of a more perfect union. And TOWARD the "you're on your own," IGMFU, ayn rand me-first-and-screw-you (or at best, me-first-and-maybe-we'll-get-around-to-you-later).

Hopefully Elizabeth Warren's arrival on the national scene will start changing that. Because we NEED that pendulum to swing back, and swing back DECISIVELY. And she's quite correct (as usual) - it is a profoundly uphill battle. But it's a battle we HAVE TO fight.