Since 2000 we’ve been traveling a less admirable road, but its inception wasn’t Florida chads or a Supreme Court compromised; nor Ohio voting machines or Iran Contra; nor even Watergate’s felons. The very moment "We the People," decided to collectively ignore corporate greed and become "the takers" of the easy money Banks were shoveling upon us, "we stepped in it."
Once chasing the next buck became our raison d’être, our children’s future outsourced and their education & sense of family & neighborhood replaced with online shopping, tweets and political sound bites of insulting "spin," our National path became the low road. Then Bush League assured quicksand was added into the mix and stirred to their $atisfaction.
However, it all started the first time someone seriously felt justified in professing "America, Love it or Leave it," and "My Country, Right or wrong!" It started where the Middle Class is neither welcome or invited: in gated communities, Bank Board Rooms and sanctuaries of Congressional Lobbyists. It started when our Second Continental Congress removed freedom for slaves from the Declaration of Independence. It was the Sedition Act of John Adams; Andrew Jackson’s insistence that "the red savage" was dispensable because he was an inferior race and a conquered people; it was Tyler & Polk in Mexico; Lincoln’s assassination & Wilson’s isolationism; Hoover’s inability to deal & Eisenhower’s waiting for the last round of golf before inviting us to the wedding between Military justification & Corporate manipulation; it was Nixon’s redefining presidential power, Reaganomics castrating Government involvement in our lives and a CIA Chief serving as Commander-in-Chief; it was our over reaction to oral sex in Biblical proportions! Thus we now reap the red ink residue sown by "Cool, Cool Conservative Men," and our families get to pay bills which, like our children, have been "Left Behind." Final costs reserved for us now by the Flag Waving Right Reds is the red blood of our youth irrigating foreign soil – innocently believing in the Service Deferred Dick hiding amongst the Bushes.
Marcello Rollando
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