If the Democrats hope to retain the White House, to ever have a chance at regaining control of the House of Representatives, or to keep their majority in the Senate, backing this woman up, not tearing her down is the only way forward. She has the audacity to speak truth in the halls of government that have become tragically accustomed to lies. She speaks plainly about issues that the public has been led to believe are convoluted and she is intelligent enough to know that her job is to represent real people, not their corporate overlords. She is a ray of hope and a laser beam of light in an otherwise dark and brutal political realm that, in our country, is desperately trying to remain out of sight and off the radar. If we are to "save" democracy and make the rest of the world "safe" for it as well, we must first come to terms with the fact that the current system has strangled the life out of basic tenets that we claim to believe in.
To get to know a person, it helps to know a bit about their history.
Vilifying the presenter of rock solid evidence of corruption has become par for the course in American politics. As if we were afraid to have anyone tell us that the emperor wears no clothes, we turn a blind eye to the shenanigans that take place on Capitol Hill and the beneficiaries of our ignorance prefer to be left alone to do so. Liz has called out the folks who exhibit bad behavior, identified the forces that are crushing democracy and made eloquent pleas for the removal of "special protections" for the corporate criminals that fund the majority of campaigns these days. If the inherent power (people power) that the Democrats wielded in the past is to have a hope of returning to Washington D. C. and sweeping the nation, it will be under the leadership of progressive voices that seek to change both the power structure of national politics and in the state capitol buildings across our nation. This has the power to redefine the relationships between the makers and takers across our nation.
Most often we hear the fallacious use of these two terms, so for the sake of truth I will repeat myself on this critical issue. The makers are those who get dirty, input the data, serve customers, come to work on time every day, create things, maintain the machinery of business and industry and provide their lives to the workplace as tools for the takers to make their fortunes. The makers have been the victims of trickle down economics, the "moral majority", the elites behind ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) and all of the "free trade" agreements that have been devised so far. Ms. Warren has educated herself about the dangers of allowing the takers to keep us in servitude for their own benefit.
In my state, we are on the cusp of voting out our most hideous Governor in decades, perhaps ever, but the replacement who is being touted thus far is another suspect in the corporate boondoggle. Her corporate ties are with a company who led the state down the road to outsourcing as much labor as possible to create the greatest wealth for those who made economic decisions based on their own well being only. Exporting thousands of jobs to China may have helped her amass millions, but that cannot offset the damage done to the job prospects for people in this area. I can empathize, truly, if someone told me that I could either make ten dollars on a bicycle or a hundred, I would prefer to get the hundred, but for me, the social, political and ecological costs of displacing workers in my neighborhood, extracting my wealth from the suffering of my neighbors and relying on the subsidization of energy, transportation and figuring in my fair share of the brown cloud that hangs over China could not be obscured by money.
Perhaps there is a bit of logic in the idea that a "self-made" millionaire will not be as beholden to the uberwealthy as a struggling middle class fool (like we have in office now), however I for one am unwilling to take that chance. The best indicator of future behavior is past practice and no matter how good the wealth makes people look when they are on display, the ugly side is rarely captured by the cameras. Taking millions out of a company that welds metal into bicycles while simultaneously paying pennies per hour for someone half way around the globe to do your dirty work is becoming offensive to more and more people. I posit that the majority, when informed about the truth, the stakes of the political game and the depth of our exploitation by the billionaires will come down of the side of the Elizabeth Warrens of the world and if we are to turn the ship of state away from the looming iceberg that we are steaming top speed toward, it will take hundreds, perhaps thousands of people like her to speak truth to power. simultaneously and with one voice.
To get to know a person, it helps to know a bit about their history.
Vilifying the presenter of rock solid evidence of corruption has become par for the course in American politics. As if we were afraid to have anyone tell us that the emperor wears no clothes, we turn a blind eye to the shenanigans that take place on Capitol Hill and the beneficiaries of our ignorance prefer to be left alone to do so. Liz has called out the folks who exhibit bad behavior, identified the forces that are crushing democracy and made eloquent pleas for the removal of "special protections" for the corporate criminals that fund the majority of campaigns these days. If the inherent power (people power) that the Democrats wielded in the past is to have a hope of returning to Washington D. C. and sweeping the nation, it will be under the leadership of progressive voices that seek to change both the power structure of national politics and in the state capitol buildings across our nation. This has the power to redefine the relationships between the makers and takers across our nation.
Most often we hear the fallacious use of these two terms, so for the sake of truth I will repeat myself on this critical issue. The makers are those who get dirty, input the data, serve customers, come to work on time every day, create things, maintain the machinery of business and industry and provide their lives to the workplace as tools for the takers to make their fortunes. The makers have been the victims of trickle down economics, the "moral majority", the elites behind ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) and all of the "free trade" agreements that have been devised so far. Ms. Warren has educated herself about the dangers of allowing the takers to keep us in servitude for their own benefit.
In my state, we are on the cusp of voting out our most hideous Governor in decades, perhaps ever, but the replacement who is being touted thus far is another suspect in the corporate boondoggle. Her corporate ties are with a company who led the state down the road to outsourcing as much labor as possible to create the greatest wealth for those who made economic decisions based on their own well being only. Exporting thousands of jobs to China may have helped her amass millions, but that cannot offset the damage done to the job prospects for people in this area. I can empathize, truly, if someone told me that I could either make ten dollars on a bicycle or a hundred, I would prefer to get the hundred, but for me, the social, political and ecological costs of displacing workers in my neighborhood, extracting my wealth from the suffering of my neighbors and relying on the subsidization of energy, transportation and figuring in my fair share of the brown cloud that hangs over China could not be obscured by money.
Perhaps there is a bit of logic in the idea that a "self-made" millionaire will not be as beholden to the uberwealthy as a struggling middle class fool (like we have in office now), however I for one am unwilling to take that chance. The best indicator of future behavior is past practice and no matter how good the wealth makes people look when they are on display, the ugly side is rarely captured by the cameras. Taking millions out of a company that welds metal into bicycles while simultaneously paying pennies per hour for someone half way around the globe to do your dirty work is becoming offensive to more and more people. I posit that the majority, when informed about the truth, the stakes of the political game and the depth of our exploitation by the billionaires will come down of the side of the Elizabeth Warrens of the world and if we are to turn the ship of state away from the looming iceberg that we are steaming top speed toward, it will take hundreds, perhaps thousands of people like her to speak truth to power. simultaneously and with one voice.
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