If We Are Serious About Transforming Our Country... [View all]

[MrMickeysMom]

If we are serious about rebuilding the middle class...

If we are serious about reinvigorating our democracy....

We need to develop a political movement which, once again, is prepared to take on and defeat a ruling class whose greed is destroying our nation. The billionaire class cannot have it all. Our government belongs to ALL OF US.... NOT JUST THE ONE PERCENT.

Somebody recently pointed that out. I think every person on this board understands what he meant. It does not mean we are looking for SOMEONE to create this outcome. It doesn't mean that it's transformation is felt with a mere win of the presidency. No, it means that we have to do the hard thing. After all these years of being trained to be so passive, it means it's TIME to do the hard thing.

We need to create a culture which, as Pope Francis reminds us, cannot just be based on the worship of money. We must not accept a nation in which billionaires compete as to the size of their super-yachts, while children in America go hungry and veterans sleep out on the streets.

Many a person doesn't recognize that this country used to practice Democratic Socialism to a much higher degree. It was so high in its accomplishment compared to what passes for Democracy today that we stopped recognizing what it means to socialize the benefits of Democracy.

It means...

We stop having the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.

It means...

The middle class stops disappearing where median family income is $4,100 less than it was in 1999.

It means...

Americans realize that "the wealthiest country in the history of the world" stops having more than half of older workers without retirement savings... ZERO... while millions of elderly and people with disabilities are trying survive on $12,000 or $13,000 a year.

It means...

Americans stop being known for having 29 million of us with NO health insurance and having even more of us underinsured with outrageously high co-payments and deductibles.

It means...

We stop paying the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. ONE OUT OF FIVE PATIENTS CAN'T AFFORD TO FILL THE PRESCRIPTIONS THEIR DOCTORS WRITE.

If we no longer wish to be caught up in this obscenity of living between the haves and have nots, we need to realize that this big task is ours.

We own it, so do not think it will take one person to deliver us from this shame ownership.