The lesser of two evils.

[woo me with science]

120. That was incoherent.

You want to talk condescension? Condescension is mocking Americans for correctly labeling what is being done to them as evil.

What is being done to Americans *is* evil.

This outrageous denial must stop.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=146626

September 11 was considered a national emergency. Three thousand people died, and we got national vigils, days of mourning, impassioned Presidential speeches, an entirely changed national consciousness and way of life....

Compare the loss of 3000 to what is happening now: Over a million American schoolchildren are homeless. We have the second-highest child poverty rate of all the developed nations; only ROMANIA is worse. Forty percent of our wealth has been looted. People who were comfortably middle class 15 years ago are living in cars on the street. Meanwhile, the corporations are sucking in record profits.

Where is the commensurate alarm about THIS emergency? Where is the outrage? Where is the President standing up and pounding his fist on the podium and saying that it is absolutely unacceptable, in a country with the wealth that America has, for ANY person to have to worry about food or shelter? Where are the vigils and the speeches and the national days of alarm and attention to this, and the exhortations for a SERIOUS, immediate response? Why do we not get a response AT LEAST as URGENT and VEHEMENT as the response to 9/11?

Why?

No, we get corporate platitudes about the need for "shared sacrifice," austerity, and budget cutting, and admonitions to be patient and not be such a "purist." We get more drone wars. We get our Secretary of Defense admonishing us about how we can't cut military spending. We get a President *starting out* debt ceiling negotiations by offering up social spending, giving speeches advocating austerity, and last Friday signing legislation gutting pensions for already struggling American workers. We get billions of dollars in new police state infrastructure and surveillance centers. We don't get any sense of alarm about *what is being done to Americans* through policy.

This is a bigger emergency than 9/11. Where is the outrage? Why do we get such a tepid response?

Because both parties are flooded with corporate money. Because austerity, bloody wars and empire, police state infrastructure, and prison industrial complexes have been deemed more profitable to the one percent than schools, libraries, genuinely affordable healthcare, and jobs with living wages.

Every Democrat should be speaking out and pushing our politicians to change the national narrative, not telling others to shut up or mocking them for calling any of this evil. Every American should be speaking out and DEMANDING better. No person should EVER go to bed hungry in the United States of America. Nobody in this country should EVER have to worry about having a place to sleep at night. With the wealth this country has, it is unconscionable that we are even having these discussions. We have a malignant, deadly serious problem of corporate money in our government, driving policy for profit....and it is NOT confined to the Republican Party.

This outrageous denial must stop.
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