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(32,139 posts)Keep pretending that things aren't getting worse instead of better, even under a Democratic administration. Keep pretending that the reason for this is not corporate infestation of our government across party lines.
Keep pretending that we are not sleepwalking into Third World nation status and a police state. Keep bleating that Republicans would be worse. Of course they would be worse. That is the game the one percent play to get you to accept what is absolutely unacceptable.
When two planes crashed into the WTC on 9/11, it was considered a national emergency. Three thousand people died, the nation was outraged, wars were started, and our entire nation was thrust into a new way of living, because of this national tragedy.
Compare the loss of 3000 to what is happening now. Over a million American students are homeless now. We have the second-highest child poverty rate of all the developed nations; only ROMANIA is worse. Forty percent of our wealth has been looted. People who were comfortably middle class 15 years ago are living in cars on the street. Meanwhile, the corporations are sucking in record profits.
Where is the commensurate alarm about THIS emergency? Where is the outrage? Where is the President standing up and pounding his fist on the podium and saying that it is absolutely unacceptable, in a country with the wealth that America has, for ANY person to have to worry about food or shelter? Where are the vigils and the speeches and the national days of alarm and attention to this? Why do we not get a response AT LEAST as URGENT and VEHEMENT as the response to 9/11?
Why?
No, we get corporate platitudes about the need for "shared sacrifice," austerity, and budget cutting, and admonitions to be patient and not be such a "purist." We get more drone wars. We get our Secretary of Defense admonishing us about how we can't cut military spending. We get a President *starting out* debt ceiling negotiations by offering up social spending and giving speeches advocating austerity. We get billions of dollars in new police state infrastructure and surveillance centers. We don't get any sense of alarm about *what is happening to Americans.*
This is a bigger emergency than 9/11. Where is the outrage?
Spare us the talk about "purity." Wake up and look at what the REAL emergency is. We have a serious, serious problem, and it is not only in the Republican Party.
Occupy.