Reply #10: It'not about Obama, folks. Or Democrats .Or Republicans.

[No Elephants]

It's about greed and fear. It's about big business. It's about what has happened to this country and the world and the dwindling oil supply and other dwindling resources in the last forty or fifty years. And what's happened to our politicians.

People in power in this country in both Parties are driven by what is good for big business and Wall Street. Some of them honestly believe that what is good for big business is good for everyone--a rising tide lifts all boats. That may have been true when our economy was confined largely to the U.S. and the U.S. was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, exporter of both goods and innovation.

Anyway, politicians get lobbied. They consult economists. Economists don't work on assemby lines. People who do are collateral damage to economists.

People have to wake up. Get over idolatry and stop looking for a messiah to rescue you. People have to unite and start doing what is right for them.

Join unions--but stay awake and make sure the hierarchy doesn't screw you. Join other truly populist organizations. Primary incumbents who have sold you out. Demonstrate.

The days when you be passive are GONE. Deal with it.

Unless and until we ALL wake up and band together and get really active, we're toast and only going to get toastier.