Many of us are jailors. Our inmates are not literally incarcerated, but they live as they are guilty of crimes nonetheless. Those who we allow to be held captive live in rural and ghetto America. These are the Americans who are in dire need of real change. These are the folks who are the victims of America’s economic apartheid.
These are the folks who are sentenced to substandard schools, housing, and health care. Many of these Americans do not spend their lives enjoying the American Dream but the horrors of our actual prison system. This election is about these Americans. They cost us all, for they stain the American Dream by soiling our fundamental notion of morality—the deep-seated belief system of our experiment with democracy.
Liberals accept the toilet assumption. They want someone, the President of the United States, to wave a magic wand and make things better with no cost, no sacrifice.
The promise of America and our democracy is equality. Today, the federal government is not predicated on the principle that justice is fairness. Federal power is not exerted as it was by Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt during the Progressive Era and the New Deal, John Kennedy during the New Frontier, and Lyndon Johnson during the fight for racial equality.
Today, the federal government must assume the role fostering a New Capitalism. The concept is not novel. This New Testament beatitude: That those of us who have must help those who cannot help themselves expresses it well.
Real change is not measured by a fresh-face or years spent affirming the status quo. Let us not forget, Barack Obama cut his political teeth on the teething ring of the corrupt Cook county political machine of Richard Daley. Hillary Clinton invited fat cats to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom. She has accepted campaign contributions from toxic polluters, corporate malefactors and in the case of Norman Hsu, a ponzi scheme artist who flimflammed pensioners and middle class investors who just sought to have their money grow.
How many political contributors to Bill and Hillary have been investigated by the FBI, or under indictment? I’ve lost count.
For Hillary Clinton the message is pristine: "Show me the money," whether it comes from fat cat lobbyists or the Dickensians of the corporate board room. Both of these venial groups do not respect America or the premise that each of us possesses intrinsic personal wealth. They fear an American people who strive to reach their full potential, for individual actualization causes a critical not cynical view of reality. It is the ability to think critically that is the catalysis of real change.
Real change is also not articulated by a factoid flicker of well focus grouped eighty-page sentence fragments, as produced by the Edwards campaign. This tome is bereft of the phrase "economic justice." It is this fundamental principle that should drive the Democrats so-called "Change 2008 Campaign;" but it will not for the Democrats, as well as their political adversaries, seek power and this all important locus of control is only attainable through unwavering support of the corporate structure.
So we remain jailors and couch our criminality within the deluded guise of the toilet assumption.