- An entitlement is a right, not a "handout."
- The decline in wages and benefits across all sectors has mirrored the decline in unions in America; when unions are strong, ALL WORKERS benefit.
- Blind support of Democratic candidates by unions over the past several decades has resulted in no gains or benefits for workers. On the contrary, in the country as a whole as in Wisconsin, Democratic candidates have erroneously blamed public employees for financial woes and have demanded concessions from public workers while remaining unwavering in their support for corporations and the wealthy.
- The budget crises facing our governments on all levels are due to the enormous expenditures on subsidizing already wealthy and large corporations, the lowering of taxes on the rich, the virtual raping of the citizenry and our federal government by Wall Street millionaires and billionaires, and the unrelenting military spending on illegal and immoral wars and on redundant and unnecessary weapons.
- Corporate subsidies only enrich corporations and their upper management, not their rank and file employees and not citizens. Increased tax breaks and monies to corporations do not trickle down to workers. Corporations do not create more jobs through such measures as lower taxes and increased subsidies; they simply create more wealth for themselves.
- While
Democrat and Republican politicians stress their minor differences through
their socially more liberal or conservative beliefs, these amount to
little in terms of concrete societal change, as both parties adhere to the
identical dominant economic, plutocratic, oligarchic paradigm which is
destroying the nation and the world. It is not by chance that all of the
presidents of the past twenty-four years have been Ivy League graduates,
as the next president will also be. The vast majority of these people are
not admitted to elite institutions based simply on their merit; they are
admitted due to their family wealth, power, and/or prestige. And for those
like Bill Clinton who do not come from such pedigrees, the only way they
are able to sustain their status after having been accepted into the power
elite is by implicitly promising to maintain and propagate the dominant
paradigm and the status quo.
- For those who decry the lack of a clear, cohesive, and compelling message by Democrats to counter Republicans, there lies a simple answer: Democrats do not have their own message because their message is the same as that of Republicans.
In the world:
- The ritual of voting is illusory; the pretense that it represents democracy is a complete fabrication. When people do not have choice in their candidates, as when the elite of the moneyed political parties choose their "electable" politicians, voting is simply an exercise in futility.
- The poor have always been and continue to be marginalized by all major political parties. Vast majorities of people around the world - including the poor themselves - have bought into the false propaganda revering wealth and equating it with quality of character, while demonizing poverty and equating it with depravity. As psychological studies have shown, the exact opposite is true. The growing number of poor in the shadow of the more highly concentrated rich is a local and global concern addressed by virtually no one in politics.
- Wealth inequality is an immoral blight in our society. The obscene concentration of wealth in America and around the globe is emblematic of the lack of democracy, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as, "the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community." We absolutely do not live in a democracy, not in the U.S. nor in the world community.
- Until ecology is prioritized ahead of economy, all other points are moot. Our already occurring global ecological decline will soon eclipse any of our current economic crises. We cannot live without ecological resources and we will poison ourselves to death in our quest to further create synthetic resources that do not fit within our natural ecological systems and our biosphere. NO ONE will dare address this reality in political circles.
While Scott Walker's administration represents one of the most morally bankrupt, scientifically inept, and socially despicable governorship seen in recent decades, real change was not to be found among any of the Democratic candidates who opposed him, just as it is not found among the Democratic governors of other states in this nation.
By utilizing electoral politics as our source of change, our choice becomes thus:
We can be shoved off the cliff by the Republicans while being told that free-fall is freedom, or we can be coaxed along the path toward the cliff, while being distracted by trivialities and assured that the cliff does not exist (and when the cliff is in sight, being told that those who led us there really tried their best not to do so) by the Democrats.
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