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POSTED 12/29/07
The time has come for the Democratic Party to address the real needs, fears and hopes of the American majority. We have to exercise our democratic rights because the present administration still does not have the desire to recognize the struggles of the average family. They also have enough supporters to stop those that do want to address these issues. As Americans watch their dreams fade away before their eyes, they have watched this administration push for and achieve ideologies that promote less regulation, higher interest rates on homes and credit cards and lower taxes for the top 1% of Americans, helping the rich get richer on a crest of debt and speculation. This ideology has brought about a recurrence of a collapsing housing market, the decay of older industries, the outsourcing of jobs, unsafe imports, millions of uninsured citizens and increased homelessness.
This political cycle has brought about an administration that
thrives on a boastful celebration of wealth, the political rise of Despite the armies of uninsured and homeless, this administration’s political leaders -- even though they have professed to care about the uninsured and homeless—have stopped our attempts to legislate help to these citizens. They have, however, passed legislation that has tilted power, policy, wealth and income toward the richest 1% of the U.S. population. With this concentration of wealth, the special interest groups and lobbyists have turned the politics of 2008 into “money politics”. The wealthy are trying to influence the candidates with their powerful bank accounts. Letting the “money politics” set the tone of this campaign season, allowing them to once again control the political agenda to achieve their goal of more money, power and influence over the citizens of the United States. These are the influences we the activists in the Democratic Party must define to the economy’s underprivileged – minorities, young men, single heads of house holds, small farmers, part-time workers, the unemployed, the uninsured and those that are about to give up hope for the future. The people we reach must see what history has shown us, which is that in the United States, when the excesses go too far in one direction, they always bring an alternative, a counter movement in the other direction. To work toward the political counter movement we must begin telling the citizens of the excess the wealthy are indulging in, while the homeless and beggars fill the streets, the average family’s real disposable income is declining toward a dismal future. Charles Dickens once began a story ”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The same can be said about today. That is why we have to work to give the average working family the knowledge to vote for a political candidate that truly addresses the needs of common people and advocates a more equitable distribution of wealth and power. We, the activists and participating members of the SCDC, must work to move the citizens to look at the other excesses the top 1% have to go along with their champagne and raspberries, while the other 99% of us are losing ground. IN SUMMARY: We must work to get the people to see the power they have to change their family’s future and move this nation forward by voting. Only when voters vote for a redistribution of political power and wealth will the real needs, fears and hopes of their families be addressed. Once these things have happened, they can say, “I stopped making excuses and took back control of my livelihood, by simply VOTING. |
their cronies, and a glorification of free traders and finance. But
while money, greed and extreme luxury have become the norm of the
pop culture, hardly anyone is asking why this great wealth is
concentrated at the top and whether this is a result of public
policy.