For far too long we have allowed the corrupt and greedy elected officials to simply be slapped on the hand, publicly rebuked, and embarrassed, with hardly any real world consequences. We need to stop this nonsense now before it's too late, and sadly, I fear it may already be. Make them fear being caught not emboldened because they have little to fear in their position of power. This would serve as an example of what happens to those that lead lives of greed and corruption in elected public service. Those whose sole purpose is to enrich themselves and their corporate and wealthy masters at the expense of the public deserve no mercy. Those that enabled the economy to get trashed in order to enrich their masters should be charged with treason, along with their wealthy and corporate masters. They have damaged the US and it's citizens leaving them weakened and vulnerable. It is a crime of massive proportions that is going unpunished unless you count the middle class and poor whom are being forced to pay for their folly and greed.
The left is notoriously non violent but it should be noted that when you are going up against jackals that have no such distaste for making others suffer sooner or later you need to stand up and fight back or just start digging your own graves. Looking back at my 45 years on the planet and what I have seen, everyone on the liberal or even moderate left should be purchasing shovels at this point.
Now before everyone starts slamming me for advocating violence, bear in mind that I AM NOT advocating violence, I am simply making an observation or reporting on what I personally see happening on a daily basis all around me and projecting what I see in the future. There will come a day in the near future when you will have to choose how deep and strong your beliefs are and pick a side. There will be no hiding from this, that is a simple fact. It may come next week, or it may come next decade but rest assured it WILL COME.
All my life I have seen the common man and womans rights and liberties trampled on, disregarded, or outright removed in the pursuit of ever more wealth, liberties, and leeway for corruption for the wealthy and corporate voices. Steal hundreds of billions of dollars and you are a hero to the right, steal a loaf of bread and you are going to prison. I have seen the gap between the wealthy and the middle class escalate to such an extent that it literally boggles the mind to crunch to the numbers. I truly don't see this lasting much longer with the broken and corrupt system we have found ourselves enslaved by. If we wake up and start acting like an advanced society then perhaps a great deal of pain, blood, and misery can be avoided and no great uprising will need to happen. Looking at our past history and the determination of those with the mental disease of unrelenting greed, I somehow don't see that happening. I truly hope I am wrong, but the empirical data suggest otherwise.
The first step in avoiding violence is making those that would enslave a nation of people in order to enrich themselves and their masters pay for their crimes against humanity. Yes, I said CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, and I mean it. Their greed has directly resulted in millions of people being forced out of jobs, and homes. Their greed has brought a nation of fine people to it's very knees with no end of their greed in sight. Stop this nonsense.
This was my first diary on DKos, so try to keep that in mind when bashing me.....