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We Americans Are in Need of Deep Reflection and Soul Searching

Seeded on Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:56 AM EDT
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We Americans are in need of deep reflection; some soul searching if you will.

We have tolerated abuses, been treated as commodities and fools, who are here to be exploited by the plutocrats who reign with impunity and crass disregard as if they are the entitled and chosen few who believe they are above being held accountable and responsible for the devastation they have created.  

We have been propagandized and plied with lies, misinformation and dissembling by our elected officials who are just hand maidens and water carriers for the moneyed and special interests who underwrite their campaigns.

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These combined forces have usurped our representative democracy to serve for their exclusive benefit. We the people are mere pawns to be manipulated and used, fed propaganda and be disregarded. We are just another commodity to them, something to be packaged, marketed and sold and when used up discarded along with the rest of the trash.

Yet we are expected to vote and participate in an electoral process that has been rigged to ignore the will of the people but just serves the moneyed and special interests.

These interests have created the class warfare and polarization that roils the political waters setting right against left but which effectively diverts attention away from them, the plutocratic forces that control the political process. They are the malevolent perpetrators behind the scene who pick the candidates running for office who in turn present themselves as being in your corner (whether it is right or left) but their pleas are nothing more than a ruse and a ploy and a crafty calculation to get ones vote.

Those who sound the alarm to this crass manipulation by the plutocrats are treated with ridicule and disdain, dismissed and mocked as alarmists or fabulists or crazed nihilists or even traitors who hate America.

For we are in need of rebellion against these plutocratic forces who act in complete denial and disregard for the basic needs of people other than themselves.

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Reply#1 - Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:57 AM EDT
Jackie-2759125

UGGGGGGH! Feel like Charlie Brown when Lucy grabs the football before he can kick it lol.

The one word I cling to in this all this crap we are in is: Hope. In all the words in my vocabularly that is the one word I don't ever want to lose. When I do, pull the plug I'm done.

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Reply#2 - Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:05 PM EDT
PowerIsKnowledge

There is strength in Hope, Jackie.

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#2.1 - Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:49 PM EDT
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