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In reply to the discussion: So many of us have been accused on here of wanting a Glorious Revolution. Let's get out with it! [View all]Zalatix
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That's three steps forward. Four, with the ACA. Now, how many steps backward?
I'll just stick with the majors, since you seem to be in need of a major lesson in current events while dictating that others need lessons in history.
So let's count all the steps we've taken backwards, over the decades:
1. Half of working class America's wealth lost.
2. An economy rapidly descending into a Plutonomy so bad that even illegal immigration is down.
3. Unions disappearing. Can't even get Scott Walker kicked out of office. Unions lost face across most of the country as a result.
4. Global warming proceeding apace. Ocean acidification. (I'll be gracious and roll those two into one.)
5. Rainforests still being cut down like wheat before the scythe.
6. Global water supplies dwindling into crisis level shortages.
7. America is leading the way with extrajudicial executions and the killing of innocent bystanders on a scale that makes MyLai look like a Facebook internet brawl.
8. Diebold. Citizens United. Foreign nations intervening in American elections with their multibillion dollar campaign contributions.
9. Our nation's infrastructure collapsing with funding perpetually coming up short.
10. Mass privatization and disaster capitalism running amuck.
11. Public worker pensions going byebye, private sector pensions long gone.
12. Minority unemployment skyrocketing. How's that for incremental progress?
13. The Reagan revolution still running wild.
I'll stop at 13. I think even you get the point.
Yes, I'm under your skin, big time. You are hell bent on believing that we aren't on a runaway descent toward ruin, you're like that band on the Titanic that wants to keep playing while the ship is sinking. You don't want people like me running around telling everyone that we hit an iceberg, and that we're taking on far more water than we're pushing out.
And I refuse to shut up. I refuse to stop pointing out the facts. You will not respond by even attempting to refute any of the 13 points I made above, because I am perfectly correct and you know it. And that is what you cannot deal with. America is sinking and it is sinking fast.
We don't need your incremental solutions. America is at stage-4 cancer.
We don't need your Wallace Hartley act. We need chemo. NOW.
You may now have your fiddle back. Enjoy!
Edited to add: Just in case I didn't make this really, really clear:
To hell with small, incremental changes. To hell with them 100 times over. WE NEED IMMEDIATE AND RADICAL CHANGE if this Republic is to survive.
Some people, obviously, cannot stomach that.