They caved! It's a testatment to how far we've fallen that

[Luminous Animal]

17. How is cutting contributions to the public pension fund progressive?

And how is the possibility remote?

Eleven years ago, I couldn't image that a near majority in the U.S. would endorse torture and indefinite detention. These are issues that I worked on with human rights organizations to highlight atrocities in other countries.

I've witnessed so many of our freedoms and the rights and economic security that were attained during the 50s 60s being eroded that it makes me weep.

Affirmative action... propagandized out of existence.

Abortion... not available locally to most of the women in the U.S. and freely used as a negotiating point for Democrats.

The overthrow of U.S. workers standard of living for free trade agreements.

Welfare "reform". One of the meanest bills I've seen pass through Congress and signed by a President.

The almost complete obliteration of the ant-war movement.

No-knock warrants, drug testing in the work place, and sobriety check points.

Stop and search which disproportionately targets brown & black folks.

The mission of our prisons to be institutions of reform to institutions of revenge to the point that Amnesty International deems that our prison system in inhumane.

I've watched our country allow nearly 50% of our population slip into poor near poor & poverty. Nearly 50%. We, as a nation don't have less money. It's simply been increasingly allocated upwards.