According to our conservative friends, America is supposed to be some social darwinian experiment...

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That's been driven off course by liberal meddling. Boo-hoo.

They're lucky that I don't have the power to send them all into some alternate universe America which actually ended up the way that they envisioned it, because if I did have the power I would send them all away to their paradise in a heart beat. I'd doubt that they would last long after being "pampered" so much in this world.

Of course, we all know that for them, the only people who are supposed to get the shitty end of the stick is people that they don't like… And that's a pretty long list, don't we know.

The thing is that they've gotten the lion's share of what they've asked for so far.

Thirty years after Reagan first took office, the momentum to fashion this conservative vision of the country has only gone in one direction, but at varying rates of accomplishment. Just take a look at the fact that income equality is so lopsided, our tax code favors the wealthy and the corporations, we still don't have a national health care system, guns are flooding our streets, racial segregation is still a reality, there are no universal protections for LGBT citizens, abortion access is being restricted unabated, there is no consensus to start a comprehensive program to deal with climate change, we have an outrageously bloated military industrial complex that we're all supporting, elections can be purchased outright by rich Republican donors, Republicans control two-thirds of the federal government and a good number of the states, law enforcement is both militarized and primarily focused against the poor, minorities and anyone else working to improve everyone's quality of life, and over forty million Americans are nutritionally distressed… But they want it all.

They've proven over and over again that they're unfit to govern, mostly because they're rather rule instead.

We are overdue for a correction. Corrections in this country are always painful affairs, because I believe that there's something in our national psyche which prevents us from doing the right, best and most effective thing right out of the gate. And what is that? It has to do with money and vested interests controlling the process, usually the same vested interests that are causing mosts of the problems in the first place. These same vested interests use the vast powers of the media to corrupt the narrative. Speaking of corruption, I've quite sure that every single public and private institution in this country has been corrupted in some way as well. Not matter where you look, there it is. I'm not sounding paranoid, because every single day we all find about some new level of corruption that we've never heard of before. America is a country of blatant opportunists, who will always trying to get ahead even if they're caught. When many of them do get caught, they depend upon the ingrained corruption of their individual institutions to bail them out.

What the eventual correction should look like, I have no idea. But i do know from previous ones that the next one won't be pretty. That's because we have so very far to go.

This country can only take so much stress against this conservative momentum, even when we on the left are doing every that we can to at least hold it all together. So all I can ask of everyone is to hold it together long enough and hard enough to fight back. We can only do that when we work together.

The people who have the most to lose if we change this countries course would rather we'd tear each other apart.