This piece brings to mind that famous quote from the 1976 film, "Network", in which the protagonist leans out the window and screams, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
After listing all the many grievances: the wars, the cutbacks, the bank scams, etc, he writes:
Power backs up only in the face of more power, we need revolutionary change, we must build a new political front based on Jobs, Justice and the Environment. We must make demands on which there will be no equivocation.The only problem I see with his thinking is that he seems to envision only the need for political change, not political AND economic. Because it is the latter that is determining the former under the present system.
...This is not about you and I anymore, any improvement in our situation will take years if not decades. This is about what kind of country your children will live in and what kind of life they will have in it. Either an educated citizenry living in decent homes that they own or a generation of Wal-mart greeters and unemployed masses living in rental slums. Either a free people with the right to join a union or herded masses spied upon and watched by an autocratic corporate fascist regime presided over by a rump Duma and a corporate El Duce demanding more and even greater sacrifices for the sake of "our interests" in East Asia.
