Superman Will Save Us: The Proposed Social Security Rollbacks

Superman will save us.

Maybe if we just had the right candidate, the right congressman or senator, the right president, or the right brand of breakfast cereal, we could stop (fill in the blank) and accomplish something progressive, something helpful, something life-affirming.

Forgive me, reader, but when I woke up today and read the Denver Post's article about Obama "backing away" from his pledge to withdraw troops from Iraq next year, I gave up looking for "the right person." I gave up expecting the president to do much more than draw an unearned paycheck.

You want the right person? Everybody who reads this should look in the mirror. If that person is not willing to act, there is no right person.

It's time to SLAM the House, Senate, and White House with millions of letters saying to continue plans to re-tax the capital vacuums (the top 1%), stop the proposed Social Security and Medicare insurance rollbacks, and continue plans to withdraw from Afghanistan.

But, do you think the Dems will figure that out? Hell no. They'll be too busy deciding what they stand for while blaming the GOP and looking for somebody else to save us.

Let's try an experiment. Let's start a drive to collect 5 million signatures on a petition to Congress and the president to re-tax the top 1% (rather than those making more than $250,000/year; there's a compromise) and not slash SS or Medicare. First, we'll concentrate on the Dems. Think we can get the signatures?

--- What was the original American Aurora? The Aurora was a newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin Bache , a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. The Aurora was published in Philadelphia, our nation's capitol at the time.

The Aurora was highly critical of what Bache felt was the tyrannous Federalist governments of presidents Washington and Adams.

The result? Adams imprisoned Bache for sedition, where he languished, awaiting trial, until his death from yellow fever at age 29.

Riots Break Out in London over Cuts in Education

The US could very well see similar citizen action in the coming years as the president further retreats in fear and the fascist wing of the GOP take advantage of the political power gap.

Have a look at the following videos. This could be your city in about a year.








--- What was the original American Aurora? The Aurora was a newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin Bache , a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. The Aurora was published in Philadelphia, our nation's capitol at the time.

The Aurora was highly critical of what Bache felt was the tyrannous Federalist governments of presidents Washington and Adams.

The result? Adams imprisoned Bache for sedition, where he languished, awaiting trial, until his death from yellow fever at age 29.

Democrats: the Let Somebody Else Do It ADHD Party?

It was funny. Listening to David Sirota's talk show this morning on AM 760 Progressive Talk, he heard what I did from one caller. She said, "We need someone..."

This translates out to, "We can't motivate ourselves; so, we need somebody palatable enough to everybody to do it."

This is why Democrats rarely win elections. This is why Democrats rarely enforce effective policy. This is why Democrats are regarded by the right as weak (and I think justifiably so).

 

The truth is both the GOP and Dems are motivated by fear. It's sad, but true. 

 

When the GOP are afraid, they organize and fight back against that fear, real or imagined. And, they can imagine a LOT of fearful things, many of which do not exist.

 

When the Dems are afraid, however, most simply whimper and complain. They rarely act. They look for somebody else to act, to lead the flock (as long as it doesn't interfere with other activities, like mountain biking, having meetings about other things, standing on street corners waving signs, [as if that ever changed anything], etc.).

For all the accusing Dems do about the GOP, that they're sheeple who walk in lockstep, the Dems sure don't act unless they see somebody with a shepherd's crook standing in front of them. The truth is before Dems agree to follow, a person must first show he/she is not too pushy, not too far to the left, and not too this way or that. By the time they Dems decide this person is the right shepherd, something else comes along to occupy their attention, and they walk away.

I'm beginning to think the Democrats are the Let Somebody Else DO It-ADHD party. 

 

Pathetic.

--- What was the original American Aurora? The Aurora was a newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin Bache , a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. The Aurora was published in Philadelphia, our nation's capitol at the time.

The Aurora was highly critical of what Bache felt was the tyrannous Federalist governments of presidents Washington and Adams.

The result? Adams imprisoned Bache for sedition, where he languished, awaiting trial, until his death from yellow fever at age 29.