I’m with you on all this stuff, as are I guess, what, 10-20% of thinking literate citizens, while 30-40% believe Rush Limbaugh and the rest believe whatever the latest campaign ad tells them (funded with unlimited anonymous donations from the corporations, i.e., the plutocracy). It’s funny; there was actually a socially conscious backlash from the public when people elected Obama out of their disgust with banks, the war, and hope of a modern (or even 20th century) public health system; and as I explained to my nephew ahead of time, “I’ll vote for him, but don’t get too excited; he’ll either get beaten or worse, be elected and turn out to be another shill for the rich.” There’s no pleasure in this “I told you so”. The Democrats making me feel like Linus kicking Lucy’s football every year (if you’re old enough to remember that.

I’m a sixties guy, and it seems like all the demonstrations did was to make a hero president out of a second-rate actor who started the real revolution, the one that exempted the rich from taxes, and began “deregulation”, i.e. totally freeing the corporations and the rich from the consequences of and responsibility for their rapacious greed. It’s hilarious the way the right has made “responsibility” one of their watchwords.

It feels like the rich not only have a headlock on the government, but that their greed is unlimited, to the point that they will eventually kill the goose that laid the golden egg. What fun is it to have a new Mercedes if it has to be bulletproof and accompanied by armed guards? It just doesn’t seem smart to destroy the buffer of the middle class, and to create an underclass that is hungry instead of chronically overweight, just so you can have two billion instead of one.

I think the bad guys won. I fear for my children just entering adulthood in an ugly third world country soon to be rent by poverty, social strife, and violence. Like they say in Texas: Oh, well.