All along I thought it was about change, you know the change we all believe in.
Yes, most Americans want less petty bickering and lies from the folks we elected to hold office. Less shouting over each other on the daily TV machine. Less propaganda filtering into our governance. Less ruthless distruction of Constitutional values, especially from those we elect.
We never said we wanted to get into bed with the criminals, did we?
The change has far more to do with a return to rule of laws based upon our Constitution, treaties, and governance based on the ideas of community having as a goal the perfecting the union for us all.
The last many years have seen an erroding of American values of community working for the greater good of all citizens; weither in the financial economy, workplace, respect for 'others' or our laws and Constitution and treaties (history), and sacrifices from those that have gone before us being ignored.
Since Nixon, the undermining has taken the shape of the Robber Baron's methodical propaganda invasion thru lies and deceit about how governance should protect "We the People" meaning big business, to the detrement of actual citizens.
This country was founded on the bulwark of seperation from Imperial overlordship and international monopolistic unfair trade and debilitating taxation of citizens. Indeed our 1st revenues were totally from tarriffs on imported goods, and taxation of businesses, no personal taxation at all. That is the very reasons the Declaration of Independence was even written.
We have been fed a steady diet of how irreversable the wrongs of Globalization and Presidential free(and overbearingly unfair) trade are.
The clear mandate that I witnessed in this past election had far more to do with undoing the Bush administrations illegal and offensive acts against the American people, and a call to renew good governance in a way that prohibits the ability of future Robber Barons from gaining so much access to our governance.
Let me be clear, no collaberation with the thieves will be tolerated, and framing it into a nice soundbite makes it no less offensive. Working with people that are willing to adjust to working within American values is necessary, playing patsy with thieves is not.
The mandate was far more to get this country back on track, as far as making our governance far more about "We the People" as citizens and curtailing the power and influence of Wall Street and K Street and international mega corporations.
There used to be laws on the books that limited monopolies, that needs a big relook from the folks that we put into the halls of governance.
I argue that the mandate was for a return to the historical values embodied in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution as a basis towards greater unity under those values; and a repudiation of the Robber Baron's ideology as demonstrated in the noe-con's agenda of 'might is right'.