It hasn't changed

from 2006 for DU, back when we stood together against bush/war/etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-10_iPus9g

Back then, we were against the wars. Orange revolution. Andy and black box voting.

We had a common enemy - bush.

Been a long time since I made that video.

If I am disenchanted now, well I think I have reason to be.

Still at war - and we have added Libya to that now. Big corporations - well they are still in the pocket of our leaders. The rich are still getting tax breaks. Patriot act keeps getting renewed.

Better than it was? Yeah - could not really get much worse.

Education? Still have nclb. The poor are still getting screwed. The unemployed are getting the shaft.

And to top it all off the RW in many states are screwing over public employees, unions, people needing abortions, etc and so on.

We cheer on assassinations we conduct in other countries and talk about how our President made the tough choices to take out a terrorist - and then on the other hand he slides away from single payer/etc and won't fight for the things he said he would.

We fought. We organized and came together - all because we wanted change. Not a little change, not just change for one thing - but for many things.

My son is somewhere in Iraq tonight. Some person needing unemployment tonight is being denied it because there was not an extension. A rich person tonight is living it up because they got an extension on their tax break.

Baby steps - well I am 45 and I am not getting any younger. You tell the people living in tents at the creek, fighting in wars, unemployed, etc to just relax and wait and that it will get better eventually.

Tell the teachers, folks in unions, the working class to just 'wait' - when the folks on wall street ran to congress and told them we need help now and were given it within days.

Tell the people who are working for work and on unemployment that they should just suck it up and that they are losers for not having a job - tell them that they can wait until later for the help they need while you bail out banks.

Tell the kids being bombed a world away that you are sorry that your drone killed their parents while denying kids here you say you are trying to save health care - kids who more and more are depending on people to raise money for them just to get treatment.

It is a fucked up world right now - well maybe not a fucked up world but a fucked up US.

Convince me that things have changed and that we are no longer at war, that homelessness here in the US is something we are working to stop, that we are not putting more and more people into prison over pot, etc.

to effect real change.

It's as simple as that.

Ok, it's complicated (to get millions and millions of people to the streets, day after day after day).

And the first 'change' on the (long) list should be to cut all subsidies to big corporations and use them to fund campaigns, outlawing the K-Street and Wall Street 'bribers'. Without any change in campaign financing, forget any 'changes'.

It's as simple as that (and as complicated as that at the same time).

to us so much as it is up to events. The tsar fell because of unplanned demonstrations. Lenin and the other leaders of various parties were all taken by surprise for all their careful strategy.

Raygun:

Are you better off today than you were yesterday??

The more people that answer no will determine how pissed off the people become............