First, let me qualify my bumper sticker by saying that there are a lot of ‘I’s which belong in the fabric of what we call the USA. Integrity. Intelligence. Initiative. Innovation. And America has always venerated those persons who have exercised their Individualism in positive and constructive ways.
But the point of my naive blog title is simply that if it is all about ‘I’ and not about ‘us’, the USA goes away. As it is doing right now before our eyes in a slow, painful disintegration and decline, a process which powerful people in this country currently cannot seem hasten enough to suit their personal ambitions. Doing the bidding of this tiny, historically myopic and self-serving elite class are rampaging Republicans who either totally lack perspective or totally lack moral sensibilities (probably both), and are openly determined to destroy what meager, frail, barely adequate safety net has been meticulously woven over decades, by more caring and patriotic statesmen. Wrapped in the red-white-and-blue, spewing empty slogans about economic priorities (deficit reduction, smaller government, reduced taxes) what is being proposed these days is nothing short of collective genocide . . . the elimination of any possibility of survival by the middle and working classes of the country.
It’s crazy and it’s evil.
If the rich elite were farmers, their approach apparently would be “If we can just get rid of all of this dirt, there will be more room for the crops.”
I lived in India for six months. If things keep going the way they are in America and you want to see what your country will look like in 25 years, just go to India. India has more super-rich individuals than any other country in the world. And over a billion pathetically poor people to do their bidding.
Just watch where you step. Or wear tall boots. Very low taxes in India. But no one to clean up the shit in the streets.
[ This posting originated at the author's novelist website jdrachel.com ]
But the point of my naive blog title is simply that if it is all about ‘I’ and not about ‘us’, the USA goes away. As it is doing right now before our eyes in a slow, painful disintegration and decline, a process which powerful people in this country currently cannot seem hasten enough to suit their personal ambitions. Doing the bidding of this tiny, historically myopic and self-serving elite class are rampaging Republicans who either totally lack perspective or totally lack moral sensibilities (probably both), and are openly determined to destroy what meager, frail, barely adequate safety net has been meticulously woven over decades, by more caring and patriotic statesmen. Wrapped in the red-white-and-blue, spewing empty slogans about economic priorities (deficit reduction, smaller government, reduced taxes) what is being proposed these days is nothing short of collective genocide . . . the elimination of any possibility of survival by the middle and working classes of the country.
It’s crazy and it’s evil.
If the rich elite were farmers, their approach apparently would be “If we can just get rid of all of this dirt, there will be more room for the crops.”
I lived in India for six months. If things keep going the way they are in America and you want to see what your country will look like in 25 years, just go to India. India has more super-rich individuals than any other country in the world. And over a billion pathetically poor people to do their bidding.
Just watch where you step. Or wear tall boots. Very low taxes in India. But no one to clean up the shit in the streets.
[ This posting originated at the author's novelist website jdrachel.com ]
