There is no liberal, or libertarian, or conservative who should defend these policies. There is no liberal, or libertarian, or conservative who should defend this corruption. The single problem we all should be able to agree about is a political system that has lost is moral foundation: For no American went to war to defend a democracy "dependent upon the Funders alone." No mother sacrificed her son or daughter to the cause of a system that effectively allows the law to be sold to the highest bidder.
We are Americans, all of us, whether citizens or not. We are Americans, all of us, because we all believe in the ideal of a government responsive to "the People alone." And we all, as Americans, regardless of the diversity of our views, need to stand on this common ground and shout as loudly as we can: End this corruption now. Get the money out of government. Or at least get the special interest money out of government. And put back in its place a government dependent upon, and responsive too, the people. Alone.
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil" -- Thoreau, 1846, On Walden -- "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one striking at the root."
If this fever is to have its effect, if this revolution is to have any meaning, if this struggle -- and the carnival notwithstanding, it is an obvious struggle to sleep on the streets -- is to have real consequence, then we all, Left and Right, must strike first at that root.
Originally published at Huffington Post
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