Could we agree that this crisis is from the "past 30 years," not the "past 8 years" and start taking

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RESPONSIBILITY (I know, the word is a thread killer) for our actions, past, present and future?

This Saturday morning DU GD looks almost cohesive in certain light bulbs going off all at once :think: :hide: :think:



We may forgive and not forget the conspicuous consumption corporate branded mall rats who once came to DU GD to argue over SUVs and cigars and bacon; the old Boomers who went all hippie/yuppie on us and still think they're not culpable in going along to get along and enabling the predictable and predicted American twilight that resulted from Reagan's "Morning In America."

We may listen to and heed those who remember the Depression (and words like "heed") or those who were raised by them, in an era when history was still something to be learned, remembered, never repeated.

We may appreciate the energy and vitality of those inspired by the recent campaign and our eloquent, Barrackstar president; plus his efforts to do as much as he is allowed to do, to right the ship of state and the sinking economy.

We may wish that more of the inspired youth connected more of the dots and that Obama helped them do so by emphasizing recent decades' reality rather than avoid it with "bipartisanship" (not that he'd be allowed to....)

Let's agree to agree.

This is the system we live in;

The game is rigged;

The economy and the American public are propped up as much as The Powers That Be will allow;

If you go along with obvious bullshit lies and propaganda and and exploit labor and waste resources and spit on "welfare queens" and ignore homeless "campers" and call traitors "heroes" and buy the "Contract On America" and support illegal wars and don't impeach criminal presidents, when times are good, while the richest of the rich are siphoning off the commonwealth, you ain't part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

The will that you may or may not have displayed for all these (8, 30) years are still up to you now.

They want "consumer confidence"?

They want to tell media stories that destroy consumer confidence.

They turned us into "consumers," not "citizens."

They spent 30 years destroying the social safety net and a lot of you went along with it, with "Greed is Good."

Thank you, so very very much.

Let's all agree to take responsibility for our actions, face the fact that we are all in this together, not repeat the past mistakes of stupidly, self-inflicting this devastated American Nightmare.

IT'S TIME TO FACE HOW YOU AND YOURS CONTRIBUTED TO THIS AND DETERMINE TO MAKE RIGHT;

TO BE CONFIDENT, EVEN DEFIANT IN FACE OF THE DEPRESSION INDUCING LIES WE'RE FED EVERY DAY, TRYING TO SURVIVE;

TO FIND WAYS TO HELP YOURSELVES AND OTHERS;

TO SEE OPPORTUNITY AND POSSIBILITY IN CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION AND GREED BECOMING OBSOLETE;

TO SWEAR TO REMAIN CONSCIOUS AND CONSCIENTIOUS WHEN THE TIDE TURNS FOR THE BETTER;

TO TELL THE NEXT GENERATION:

NEVER AGAIN.


Teach them to not buy a lipsticked pig-in-a-poke. Tell 'em to heed your words this time.




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