Who do we ignore the fact that our economic catastrophe was caused almost entirely by one of our political parties?
It is staring us in the face. We know it to be true. But for some reason we're not allowed to say it.
I don't mean we=DKos. I mean, we=the U.S.
The party that was in power, the Treasurer, the SEC, the banks, investors, speculators, the insurance companies, the mortgage companies, the legislators, the hedge fund managers, the corporate lawyers ... these are the people, 99% from one specific party, who ruined us.
This is the party of the managerial and corporate ownership class.
It is also the party of most of the people who issued the layoffs ... whose investments were protected by the layoffs ... who foreclosed on people's homes ... who are fighting tooth and nail to prevent people from getting basic health services.
They made the world we now live in. And they continue to make it into a world that is tilted toward their needs and wants ... lower taxes for themselves ... cheaper labor ... fewer rights ... options out the wazoo to abandon American workers and hire those in labor-cheap nations ...
And no one but Bernie Madoff has been made to pay. The real perpetrators have been bailed out, and bonused up. They are too big to chip in. Their liability is limited. They can't be allowed to fail.
Who pays instead? School teachers ... street crews ... nurses ... cops ... even the poor, who face reduced services under proposed budgets ...
How sad are we that we cannot properly allocate simple responsibility. Not that we can't turn all these "tilts" around ... we can't even bring ourselves, as a nation, to say "This is what has happened to us."
Indeed, the first electoral chance we got, we voted in the very malefactors who caused the problem, in nationwide majorities.
Now every state is sucking air.
The rich own everything. They own us. And they are not done. Now they want to make us poorer, breaking working people down further, Walmartizing what was once a good and diverse economy. Opportunities for our children are meager indeed. Education is overpriced, and there are no jobs anyway.
Is it even possible to imagine a workable remedy for this?
Politics can't seem to save us -- neither party seems interested or able. our leaders are frightened, or lack conviction.
Activism of the sort we engage in keeps us stoked with emotion ... but there are many signs this hastens our mental and psychological decline ... and few signs that it is having significant practical effect.
Technology isn't on our side -- it helped create this flattened world.
Militarism does not seem to be the answer for our current crop of problems.
God continues to snooze -- that has long been his official M.O.
The world gets warmer, just like the pot of frogs in the fable, the one hey never hop out of, until they are green chowder.
Help!
Cheer me up ... anyone!