How does one believe real change is going to trickle down from the top when the man at the top is intentionally making it difficult for Americans to get excited about real health care reform because he thinks he should give credence to private, corporate, and special interests who fear a single-payer health care system that would take the greed or profit-motive out of health care?
How do you assure yourself that all is going to be well when foreclosures are on the rise and when the unemployment rose to 9.8% in September as 263,000 jobs were lost, as recently reported, and Democrats have yet to hold those responsible for this deepening economic crisis accountable?
How do you ignore the fact that the Obama Administration through Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and others are there for Wall Street and not the people and not only that but they are going to be there for the orchestration of secret deals (like the bailouts a year ago) which can save Wall Street from the impacts of their own excess and reckless greed and will be saved at the expense of America?
What interest does Barack Obama have in taking from the richest 1% (which own anywhere between 30% to 50% of the world's wealth) to give to the bottom 90% which is constantly exploited for profit and gain by the money class in America? What interest does Obama have in stripping Wall Street of the benefits it gained from a successful coup d'Ã tat just before the election last November?
Thankfully, Moore comes at this with a healthy nuance. Moore suggested on Bill Maher's show that Americans wait until the NBA season officially begins to judge Obama on how he has performed (or under performed). Of course, that implies that he was going to perform for the people upon being elected and not simply do what Bush did, which was to ensure that the pie got bigger for capitalists in America.
Moore wants Americans especially workers to form unions in the workplace and democratize business. He wants Americans to push for a say at work. He also wants Americans to go out and give voice to the voiceless---people who are without homes, who are being duped by "dead peasant policies, who are being had by corporation.
And, he wants the Democratic Party of America to know that the American people are coming. This is the film that will do it. This is what is going to begin to mobilize Americans and give them the power to go out and challenge the Democratic Party.
To all that, I say amen.
It has been almost a year now that Democrats have been in control of the White House. And, since 2006, Democrats have had some kind of control over Congress and more than two years later, Democrats have done pretty much nothing.They have failed time and time again and it's time that Americans ask if this is a result of corporate power or this capitalist system or if Democrats are really as dumb and inept as they seem to be?
Let's quit allowing the Democratic Party to be the second-most enthusiastic capitalist party in American politics. Stop rewarding ineptitude and failure, which seemingly occurs so that Democrats do not actually succeed in doing something that might threaten the richest 1% in America.
There's a lot to grapple with, much to figure out. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s question, "Where do we go from here? is definitely applicable to today.
Capitalism and the corporations that coalesce under this ideology in favor of a nation that bends over and subverts its own values and the humans in it so they can enjoy exorbitant profits have got to be challenged.
People in society have got to begin to think like citizens of society and not consumers who enable the wheels of capitalism to keep rolling and rolling over the bodies of the less fortunate in America.
"Capitalism: A Love Story --- See it. Reflect. Go to your local community organization or union and take action.
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