Thursday, July 26, 2012

Occupy Change

Posted to "Nation of Change" 11/4/11

I look at the Occupy Movement and remember the Japanese WWII general's comment about Pearl Harbor , "we have awakened the sleeping giant".  Recently one person said " Enough! " and we heard and echoed it softly as a butterfly wing and stirred the winds of change. We the People have had enough!  The prison of serfdom the rich have planned for us will be the prison they rot in, and we will  put them there using the rule of law and the ballot box.  We will be strong enough to do it soon, hopefully by the 2012 election. The rich and greedy will make a mistake to think they can steal the election with their ill-gotten gains and hacked machines.   They should not think that the military, which is not a rich dictator's army, will come down on the side of those they know do not care about them or their families except to use their bodies for cannon fodder to enrich the oil whores and war profiteers. 

I believe this will be a peaceful revolution demanded by the American voters but a revolution all the same.  I am the optimistic product of Depression Era, FDR loving, Eisenhower Republicans.  My father said before he died  a couple years ago at 92, "I don't recognize these Republicans anymore, they're mean now"   I don't recognize them either, they are not anything like my hardworking, kind, & decent WWII & Korean War Veteran father.  Most of these "barons" of Wall Street have never fought for this country and they stole it from those who shed their blood  in trumped up wars for oil whores and corporate war profiteers.  They made up fraudulent mortgages and created fraudulent financial derivatives to cheat those who worked hard everyday trying to provide for their families and dreaming of owning a home for their children.   To quote a Percy B. Shelley poem of the pacifist Peterloo rebellion in 1819 ,   "Rise like lions after slumber, in unvanquishable numbers.  Shake your chains to earth like dew that in sleep had fallen on you.  Ye are many - They are few"   We the People are no longer asleep, you cannot distract us, you will not turn us against one another, and we will help one another.  By virtue of our hard work and service and shed blood, this is our country.  This is not your rich man's kingdom, and we are not your slaves.  We made you and we trusted you but you sold us out.  We let you become the money-changers in our country's temple and now we will put you out of the temple and heap on you the shame you deserve.
Haven't been here in a long while.  We are well into the election of 2012 which will pit President Obama against Mitt Romney.  As far as I'm concerned, Romney is no contest for our President.  It's a case of "crass" against "class"  or "gall" against "grace".  President Obama so far outclasses Romney it's a pathetic comparison.  The Democrats have finally started to show the backbone we the people have wanted, pushed by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Patty Murray and backed by the President's approval.  They have decided not to back down or take any more shit from the GOP.  Current goals are called "Off the Cliff" to let the Bush Tax Cuts expire for all at the end of the year and then begin anew to set tax rates and priorities.  I hope we will stare the GOP down and prevail, and it seems at this point as if the GOP realizes they have pushed their intransigence too far and will lose this fight.  Hoping for a strong showing for Pres. Obama against Romney, and praying for a filibuster proof Democratically led Senate, and control of the House.  In other words, a total repudiation of the Tea Party nutcases that got in office in 2008. Pres. Obama has done a good job, I believe, and I only fault him with being to willng to try to reason and cooperate with the GOP who have no interest of cooperating but only of protecting the wealthy upper class and corporations and basically the top 1% of the country.  To quote "The American President",  "these are serious times and we need serious people to deal with them".  We need to turn this country back from the hatefulness of the past decade.  The fear of the "other" the GOP sells like candy via Fox News, the pablum and mind-numbing effect of reality shows that glorify meanness and dirty tricks.  We'll see what November brings, but I'm betting on the American people standing up to the GOP and saying "no more"....we will have our country back and have it operate for the many, not the few rich.