Jim Hightower: Time to take our country back

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Common sense commentaries: September 20 - 24
Time to take our country back

This is a Big Time for America. It's not just another election, not merely about a list of issues -- even though some of those issues are huge, including the deliberate downsizing of our middle class and the deadly war of lies in Iraq.

What's at stake on November 2nd is the very idea of America itself -- the historic idea that we might actually build a society based on our egalitarian ideals of economic fairness, social justice, and equal opportunity for all. The moneyed elites -- presently working through BushCheneyAshcroftRumsfeld & Company -- have decided that America should no longer bother pursuing egalitarianism. They are asserting a new ethic of privilege, declaring that the role of government is to take care of the good fortunes of the few... and not worry about the well-being of the many. In their view, they're the top dogs and the rest of us are just a bunch of fire hydrants.

Wielding their administrative blow-torches and legislative monkey-wrenches, they are jerry-rigging America's rules so that money and power flow uphill, out of our neighborhoods into their corporate suites and offshore bank accounts. They're seizing control of every decision that affects our lives -- from wages to taxation, from what's in your dinner to what's in your daily news feed, from who goes to college to who goes to war.

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1. thanks jd!!! :) n/t