'It is not the difficulty of the problem,it is that the rich people will not allow us to solve them'

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10. More than the rich, we have a problem with people who do not believe in equality. Even in his day,

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Despite his populist rhetoric, there was not the joining together of the different racial and ethnic groups to make an overwhelming majority. That was an era of lynchings and cross burnings, too. It does not negate one thing he said, but apparently many of the 'poor' bought into that to feel 'above' their fellows.

The American people repeatedly buy the LIE that their current income, property, culture, jobs, families, politics, religion or eduation sets them above their fellows. It is our willingness to have our egos stroked that has been our downfall throughout history. It is our responsibility to break this barrier, not the rich, who pay the media to divert us from what they are doing to divide us.

In that way, we hold more blame than they. We refuse to unite unless we have someone to hold to blame; we are to blame. We are not children, we are not helpless. We have minds to tell us how the world is to decide daily what we want and love. The rich cannot control who or what we love.

We are divided with the propaganda of the rich, but they too, are afflicted by this LIE that they are different from the rest. They do not seek their own self-interest with any less vigor than the poor. Those born rich, may become poor and it sustains their fear. Those born poor, may become rich and that hope sustains those who support the rich.

Life is a series of events from birth to death in which we are all vulnerable to the circumstances we are placed into from no choice of our own. Those who vote to protect the interests of the rich, or to scale down their wealth to share it, is beyond those factors I named above.

We ALL realize things can change within any one person's lifetime. Those who follow the GOP believe that they will become rich if the rich get so much money they can toss some at them in passing. Or they become rich by playing the same game.

Democrats believe everyone can get rich at the same time, or get by. Getting rich doesn't come from equality, but just getting by does, and many people have left the Democrats for that reason. They are afraid for their security, and willing to destroy the Commons to get theirs now, not wait for a world they do not trust to treat them fairly to help them when their time of need comes.

This is the conversation Obama is seeking to have with the nation. Which way do we want to go?