Good Monday Morning Kossacks,
As you go about your week, trying to personally survive and do your bit to help our foundering ship of state survive, you might miss an important diary this morning as it has already slipped off the Rec List. I believe that it is a very important diary that deserves a lot more attention and discussion and so I would like to encourage you to not only read, but to please REC it, to put it back on the Rec List so that it will be highlighted for others to read.
Here it is:
Taking On and Defeating the Tyrannical One Percent by Ray Pensador.
It is a very thoughtful, documented and balanced perspective and what needs to be done with some good ideas of how to do it.
To whet your appetite:
The challenge is how to go about accomplishing those goals, which are absolutely necessary for the removal of the tyrannical rule of the greedy and unethical 1 percent.
What needs to happen (in my opinion) is for a vanguard group of extremely focused and disciplined people within the 99% movement to develop a very clear and cohesive strategy to take on each and every one of the challenges to the restoration (or implementation) of a true democracy.
And fortunately, I think this is beginning to happen. For years money-grabbing politicians of both major parties were content with backroom pay-to-play influence peddling deals that traded legislation meant to enslave the population (by destroying the regulatory infrastructure), and pillage the treasury, for favors, lobbying jobs, campaign contributions, and trinkets such as tickets to sporting events, etc.
Not only is this article very well written and thought out, it presents some very positive suggestions. The comments in this article are also worth the read. Such an in depth piece needs to be read by more of the site than the brief time that it was on the fickle Recommended List.
We must not let ourselves get distracted and waste our time on the 'shiny media objects' that the RW throws before us: "Orly Taitz files another suit;" or "Ann Romney slams mothers" or any other distraction. This diary explains how we have to keep our focus despite how the RW is trying to pull our puppet strings through their control of the media. We need to focus on what matters. Power. (Color of Change is an excellent example of a very successful group which has grasped that fact and has found an excellent strategy.)
Please Read and Rec this Diary.