we need a new American Revolution [View All]

we sit here in the US, in the "belly of the beast" ... the US wields massive power internationally; we are truly the world's only superpower ...

our institutions and our system of government, a system that purports to respond to the will of its citizens, has become totally dysfunctional ... the "checks and balances" built into the design of our government have badly failed; they have failed because the American people have taken their democracy for granted ... WE, the people, more than any other entity are to blame ...

we can point to centralized, corporate media ... they, too, share the blame for failing to tell the people the truth ... we can point to greedy corporatists who put their narrow commercial interests ahead of the national interest ... they are the most destructive force the planet has ever witnessed ... and their greedy, un-American goals would never be realized if Americans were more vigilant ... but we're not ...

one might even make an argument (although i'd never agree with it), that we "cannot afford to be nice" in taking whatever oil we need no matter who owns it or how we get it ... one could argue the very survival of the US hangs in the balance ... but what we have right now is a system that first and foremost caters to BIG OIL and other massively powerful trans-national corporate interests ... this is true EVEN IF the US indirectly derives some benefits ...

the bottom line here is that the American people play virtually no role in the policy decisions being made ... THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY !!!

what has to change is that the American people need to hear the truth ... they need to want to hear the truth ... we have to fight for candidates who insist on telling the American people the truth ... without awareness, the American people are easily manipulated; they cannot become the force they should be to eradicate the evil corporate cabal that sits entrenched like a cancer in our government and in all our institutions ...

which brings me to the Democratic Party ... some say the Democrats have become a Party of corporatists not much better than the republicans ... perhaps this is so; perhaps not ... either way, though, what is needed is an opposition Party committed to rallying the American people to fight to reclaim their democracy ... we need to stop supporting candidates who are afraid to be labeled as anti-American ... nothing could be more American than what i espouse ... we need a new American revolution that restores the best interests of the American people to controlling the levers of power and the oversight of our systems of checks and balances ...

there is a difference between the major parties ... the Democrats hold the only real hope that a renewed energy to sweep the corporatists from power can be re-kindled ... the current hoopla about the DLC is very well founded ... for too long, they have been able to divide the Party's left and its center ... the issues we all must face together are far greater than the "small issue quibbling" we've allowed to distract us ... the DLC must go to allow a reunification of left and center ...

and then we must get back to the central business of reclaiming our country and restoring our foreign policy to one of good global citizenship ... until we can make the others understand, we have failed the rest of the world, our own country and our own party ...