This is chickens coming home to roost. The people can only suffer so much. No establishment candidate will get anything done from the left or the right. That’s why the Tea Party is busy primarying the shit out of the ‘reasonable Republicans’.
I want to preface what I am about to say with I am an Independent. I left the Democrats a long time ago, rather they left me. I am no purity troll or Bernie Bro. I am a hanging on by my teeth, middle class Gen Xer with 3 adult kids who are struggling to stay afloat in this shitty economy. It’s great if you are rich. If you are just a regular working stiff, things are pretty shitty. I voted for Obama twice and I just cast my last vote for an Establishment Dem, Hillary Clinton.
The members of establishment parties are looking at this all wrong. This is class warfare not D vs R. The fat corporations have bought the whole joint. That is why the movement MUST come from the grassroots. This is what Kansans are starting to do. They just had a huge wave of progressives (as far as Kansas goes anyway) come in. The biggest since I think the mid 70’s. You see the end of the line staring us in the face for ‘reaching across the aisle’. It’s broken and it’s finished. The rich will continue to squeeze the poor until we rise together to make the politicians do our bidding and not Wall Street’s. It doesn’t matter what Ms Clinton promised. There is no faith in our government institutions and that’s why we now have the Cheeto-in-Chief. Don’t scream at progressives and the working white class who are barely hanging on. We need each other more than ever.
They are consolidating power by turning the poor, the minorities and the working class on each other. People here who are astonished Clinton got trounced don’t even notice that the train for reform has left the station and they are still standing on the platform. We need to rise up together and take our power back. This isn’t hold hands and pray we all get along crap. This is meat grinder, roll up your sleeves, pull your community close to you and vote for people who work for you! School board, sheriff, local dog-catcher and state reps. Vote on every single issue that comes to the ballot box in every election and turn out the vote. DO NOT cling to the establishment candidates. Look at your counterpart across the aisle for how to do it. You can’t fix this by installing a president who has good ideas because it does no damn good when the top is so very corrupt. Kansas is leading the way, as they got to experience what the rest of are about to get shoved down our throats. Can’t believe I just typed that but check out what they got done while the rest of us just got our asses handed to us.
I love my conservative Kansan and Texan brothers and sisters and I love my Seattle died in the wool liberal brothers and sisters. Now we march. Smile at your neighbors, don’t let the darkness bind you up. Half of this country, hell 75% of this country want us all to be well and to succeed. Remember that they want us to fight against one another. They want us busy tearing each other up because that keeps them safe.
Let’s hope some of the corporate tools have a little lingering love for country over their piles of cash because they are the ones that have to try to hold the line on the damage while we use what ever precious time we have left to get something done. Time to get off of our collective asses and rise up!