writing in the raw: it’s one fucking thing

It’s not about a class war. Or Iraq. Or terrorism. It’s not even healthcare or New Orleans or the next Katrina-like disaster. It’s not collapsing bridges or trapped miners. Not abortion or gay marriage, civil rights or liberties. Tax cuts for the rich and what’s left in the treasury going to Halliburton? No, not that either. Predatory lending and sub prime markets crashing? Loss of income? Fear of job loss? Loss of worker safety protections? No no no no no no no….

It’s simply this: Our governmental infrastructure is broken… it’s dysfunctional. Further, the government of the United States of America has turned its back on its citizens. Hey. I have a novel idea. How about stopping those causing the dysfunction? Yeah. Like an intervention called IMPEACHMENT. We must demand Congress does its job and uphold the Constitution. Restore our freedoms and Constitutional rights damn it! Start with, first and foremost, enforcing separation of church and state and creating an earthquake-proof secular government. Then let’s get rid of thought crimes straight away. And torture and spying on US Citizens.

Because really, I’m thinking a government that condones spying on its citizens and dismantling due process as it outsources military, education, medicare et al is a government of men and women not interested in health care or education or the military. They are interested in controlling us and giving all those private contracts to their buddies. Cha Ching. We need our equilibrium back. We need to restore our country by rebuilding our governmental infrastructure. Forget 2008. If we want health care and collapsing bridges repaired, then we have to find people to send to Congress who will start the hard work of restoring the functionality of the United States government.

The only interest our current government promotes is industry, business, corporations… American or otherwise. It is an enabler of CEOs and stock holders depleting companies solely to push profits into personal bank accounts, leaving reinvestment in infrastructure and R&D as an afterthought. Certainly, company profits are padded by keeping employees’ wages stagnant and sabotaging benefits. And they want me to believe it’s a health care crisis. Certainly a crisis for citizens, and not for those making money at health insurance extortion… and fraud… don’t get me started… This is a crisis of ethical proportions…

Oh, and did I mention taxes to subsidize Halliburton et al? Yes? Right, you’re right, I did… okay pf8, keep on point: it not about that either. It’s the whole damned dysfunctional government and it fucks up  frickin’ EVERYTHING.

I keep coming back to a few things: in 2004, even in red states going for Bush, around 45% of voters flicked levers for John Kerry. November 2006 was a resounding response that said: we want government to do its job and, as polls showed, Americans meant more than Iraq and terrorism. Current polls show convincingly that Americans want their government back. They urgently want politicans to get back to the people’s business… not advocate for global corporate power…

So……

Let’s do something revolutionary and stop diverting our energy to the lunatic fringe. While powerful, they are just the fringe, but we give them so much g’damned attention that everybody thinks it’s most of the country. And it’s NOT true. bill0, they’re all yours…

Let’s do something revolutionary and find a coalition of lawmakers across the country who feel as we do and work with them to force Ricky and Lucy Harry and Nancy to stand up and act the way a Speaker of the House and Majority leader should:::  representing the interests of their country and constituents and NOT Rupert Murdoch et al.

Let’s do something revolutionary and not pretend we have the answers here. We have IDEAS… some great ones and some outlandish ones… and we’re going to make mistakes in restoring our country and making it work for Americans again. But we will find, together, this better way forward.

Let’s do something revolutionary and work with our Republican neighbors, not to get them to elect Democrats, but to find agreement on the problems and to find synergy in our opposing views so we can force our politicians to serve up effective policies to regulate markets, implement health care, restore our public schools… in sweeping ways that work for most… and to keep vibrant that wonderous tradition of representational government!

There are Americans looking for us… waiting for us. They don’t want to be told this is a Democratic thing. They don’t want to be bashed about with change, progressive, liberal, conservative, neocons, wingnuts. They just want it… this, us… to be an American thing again.

Me too.