Growing Leaderless Revolution in America

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Monday February 14, 2011 · 4:27 AM PST

2011/02/14 · 04:27

Not that long ago I wrote the diary A different concern about Egypt and Tunisia the US and parts of Europe are suffering from poor economic conditions and high unemployment. Today I read the Common Dreams article The Invisible, Growing Leaderless Revolution in America by Will Wilkinson. His point is:

When will the world start watching a “leaderless revolution” here in America? We don’t have a dictator to oust. For us, it’s a ruling oligarchy immune to influence by voting. It’s bankers, corporations, multi-whatillionaires, an enabling government, those with the gold, the power and no interest in us, beyond milking us everyday like the docile sheep they believe us to be.

Consider bobswern's diary Corporate Kleptocracy, American-Style: Lawyers, Guns and Money. The diary starts with

It's really getting pretty damn crystal clear to anyone that's bothering to pay attention. This is not rocket science. Reality's to the point where, with every passing day, we're witnessing the metamorphosis of U.S. society into tacit resignation and/or blind acceptance of blatant corporate kleptocracy. Some are even referring to it by its proper name: corporate fascism.

Mix this with the comment titled Yet another reason why I'm glad for RKBA and I begin to wonder. And then there are the Tea Party members with there "militias" and other nonsense. I had to love Allen West at CPAC, the man with higher security clearance than the President, lamenting that Joyce Kaufman quit. Joyce Kaufman has advocated violent overthrow of US government.

You got to watch Allen West to appreciate just how crazy he is.

With President Obama proposing budget Cuts To Target Working Poor, Middle Class & Students (LIVE UPDATES) and as Paul Krugman points out in Eat The Future

The moral is clear. Republicans don’t have a mandate to cut spending; they have a mandate to repeal the laws of arithmetic.
. . .
Which brings me back to the Republican dilemma. The new House majority promised to deliver $100 billion in spending cuts — and its members face the prospect of Tea Party primary challenges if they fail to deliver big cuts. Yet the public opposes cuts in programs it likes — and it likes almost everything. What’s a politician to do?
The answer, once you think about it, is obvious: sacrifice the future. Focus the cuts on programs whose benefits aren’t immediate; basically, eat America’s seed corn. There will be a huge price to pay, eventually — but for now, you can keep the base happy.

This is terrible. We are shooting ourselves in both feet without getting out of the military industrial complex. We are being bent, folded and mutilated.

The revolution is only a matter of time.

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