The OWS movement has given me some hope for the first time in decades that maybe the

generations of my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren not to live in a third-world-like banana republic. :patriot:

though i was much slower on the uptake than you were and had hope until the bushie years

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more hopeful about the future than I have felt in quite a long time.

Well, not entirely free, but only due to the blood being shed by those that "supposedly" are there to protect us.

As I posted in Aug.-

Since Democrats appear to have adopted the same Straussion economic goals as the neocons those on the left will have to either become begrudging corporatist and support them hoping to teach Keynesian economics to those that refuse to learn (in my opinion a quixotic adventure)

Or else we will finally have to face the fact that the party we have been trying to bring back to it's former glory of standing for the people, their rights and their livlihoods has now finaly after all attempts to revive, died on the table.

It is now a corpse propped up next to the Republicans to maintain the illusion of a choice. Even if the corpse wins it will only be used as a vedntriliquist dummy for banks , oil, and military talking points.

We have to stop holding up the corpse like some political version of weekend at bernie's. and admit that we must gather together in the wilderness and ally ourselves with the Unions the workimg poor and the poor and begin the work of forming a party that will stand for what Democrats once did, revive the platform of FDR and give it not lip service but support and expression in legislation submitted by a third party, The son of the Democratic party so to speak, now that it has died and left us with simply another Republican alternative, it must be reborn or be lost to history.

The Corporate political employes have stolen our name for their abomination. So we will be forced to choose a new one, perhaps Labor Party, or just go with the Socialist Democratic party.
It will take time, but we are getting nothing but Reagan and worse from the corpse right now, so we have finally reached a point where we simply have no other options left to us except to breathe life back into the principles and ideas that fought back the last assault of the super wealthy.

If we just go along to get along with either party all we will get is neo-feudalism.
I prefer to fight for the only ideas that brought shared prosperity and a moral and secure nation.

The corpse is dead, any more time spent on it is time spent on our own destruction. They will only bring us third world wages without security, a land where only the ultra rich can know security and joy.

If this fails, it will only be a matter of time before the hungry and sick that can not get help will explode in numbers and then explode in bloodshed. Once the rich prince said "let them eat cake" or more precisely, "let them eat peas", they stopped hiding the green skin of the corporate corpse as the stench became too pungent to continue to ignore.

The rest of the revolution is going to be much tougher.

Just hope they allow us a peaceful one. Violent ones tend to be messy, uncomfortable and rarely succeed as advertised as shadowy plutocrats just change uniforms and go on as before.

That terrible, terrible night when good was defeated and evil triumphed.

than the interest of large corporations (including the MIC and their contractors) and the wealthy, to wit: until government begins to promote the general welfare rather than the welfare of large corporations and the wealthy. This can only be accomplished with restoration of fairness and responsibility in the tax code, universal health care, stringent regulation of business, elimination of corporate person-hood (a liberal progressive Supreme Court), fair trade laws, and huge disincentives for any exacerbation of income inequality. :patriot: