Reply #146: WFT

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:wtf: WE have been saying for forty years that the country needed to become more energy efficient, reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, foster an economic, social and educational order predicated upon social justice and long term viability. WE have been voices crying in the wilderness for 40 years about the dangers of climate change, the reason to avoid military conflicts, and the need to restrict military spending in peace time as a percentage of GDP. WE warned of the dangers inherent in the deregulation of big business and the end of progressive taxation. WE warned that the death of organized labor was the death of the American working class, its organized power and the start of pay to play politics. WE were labeled leftists, un-American, wimps, pinkos, self haters and worse for these and other efforts to reverse the death spiral of the American Empire. WE are liberals, not progressives. WE are mostly Baby Boomers who did not entirely sell out. Virtually all of our efforts to reform society have failed for two generation. WE had nothing put grass roots organization, no money and little time away from the demands of work and family. WE became enslaved to the same debt economics that have led the nation to our current impasse. WE were seduced by the glitter of the junk we could by. WE are not innocent. WE should have done more, even though arrayed against us was the vast economic and political power of the wealthy and their corporations, but WE didn't. The very rich have benefited greatly from the blood and misery of the entire planet. Why not take their assets? They've not only taken ours, they've stolen the futures of our children and threatened the very survival of our civilization and the planet itself with their avarice. Do you suppose they have seen the error of their ways? Do you think they or the economic system they have used to rob the world will change from any effort of theirs? ? Thinking back on it now, perhaps struggle to the death was the correct choice in the 60's. Who knows? That time has passed. What will you do generation XYZ123 if you are betrayed again and again by a Democratic Party you helped put in power and there is no viable political alternative to it? Will you just piss and moan, or will you fight? You better do better than WE did if you want to live and not just survive. Semper Fidelis