For over thirty years, the Republican Party has displayed an arrogance that says they are superior to the masses; that they know what is best for the country. Their America is every person for themselves, not a country that maintains a balance between public and private interests. Their power is steeped in ethnocentrism, and they use the legislative process to mask lies and riddles.
This entitlement complex allowed them to dupe and make fools of the middle, and working classes in several ways with no remorse, and currently act like spoiled selfish children dressed up as a Tea Party.
First, they said liberalism was and is un-American. That government acting as an instrument of employment, and social change to address past inequities hindered freedom and liberty.
Then they hired an actor to champion an economic policy shaped by interest rates, corporations, and their investors as the only approach the country really needs; a monetarist approach that would lead to opportunities that would magically “trickle down” on us little people. For after all, America is a mythical “shining city on a hill,” built by rich people.
We’ll, I grew up in Wilkinsburg, Pa and nothing is shining there!
Then, the GOP told us Affirmative Action is a bad liberal idea, but contrarily corporate welfare is good. Our masters then added insult to injury by replacing Thurgood Marshall with Clarence “uncle” Thomas, who is on the Supreme Court because of the very program he wants to dismantle.
Now, despite clear proof that an un-regulated free-market system cannot be depended upon to self-regulate, address social inequities, decrease poverty or increase the wages of the middle and working class, The Republicans want to double down on the concept that gave us the 2008 Great Recession. They want us to believe that Mitt Romney is a financial titan that will lift us out of our economic morass because he knows better than President Obama.
Let’s be clear and tell the truth – Romney is not Henry Ford or Bill Gates. He is simply “Ritchie Rich” that has grown up to be “Gordon Gekko.” He is not even going to carry Massachusetts the state where he was Governor because they know he is a fraud.
Don’t let the masters keep fooling us. Don’t wake up a week from today saying that you should have voted… that you could have done more to guarantee that truth prevails. Make a plan to vote – make sure your family, friends, colleagues and your elderly neighbors have a strategy to get to the polls. Make a difference.
I am directing the Obama for America staging location in Penn Hills. If you live in the area and want to get involved hit me at jlewis682@gmail.com.