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2016 Postmortem

islandmkl

(5,275 posts) Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:47 PM Mar 2016

Dear PTB, all of you, (D), (R), M$M...ALL of you:

you may have painted us into a corner, but that fucking paint will dry some day...maybe not even in 2016...but that paint will dry...

and we will see what happens to that comfort zone you have built on the backs of the American Middle Class...

do not mistake patience for acquiescence, do not mistake civility for acceptance, do not mistake calm for contentment, do not mistake your victories as triumph....

some like to believe, as I do...from the last lines of Grapes of Wrath the movie:

Ma Joad: "Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people."