Our country is being stolen. It is being painstakingly dissembled piece by piece. Our jobs are disappearing. Our freedoms are disappearing. Opportunity is shrinking. The American Dream is dissolving like a ghostly puff of smoke that hinted at better times. Our political and policy decisions are now made by the highest bidder. Our once-amazing country is falling apart. Frankly, America is viewed as in decline by most of the rest of the world.
"Oh! But you're so wrong. America is #1 !"
Oh, excuse me. I forgot. I must be some unpatriotic America-hater to even consider such offensive allegations. I do apologize.
But the question still remains . . .
If America is #1, then why can't it deliver the mail on Saturday?
Why can't it maintain and even improve on a service so fundamental and necessary to an organized, functioning society, one that already has a long history of success and approval in our own country, and somehow works just fine in every other country in the world?
The answer is no secret and is appalling: The U.S. Postal Service is being sabotaged by play-for-pay politicians who at the bidding of private corporations intend to take it apart and privatize it, turning it into another money-maker for interested parties.
The destruction of the U.S. Postal Service is just another in a long list. The corporate vampires will not rest until they've sucked the last blood out of every institution in our once-great nation. They're destroying the educational system, they are bleeding the treasury, they are after Social Security and Medicare, they are already bankrupting the nation leaving people sick and dying while delivering second-rate medical services. They are after every government program, every initiative, every community service agency, to divert tax dollars exclusively to enterprises which improve the bottom line of multinational corporations, bloodsucking institutions which have no loyalty to America, to its citizens, to its families, to its communities, or to actual human beings. With these corporations, the only concern about any of us, our lives, our communities, our country, is what can be extracted in terms of profit.
The tragic disembowelment of the nation's postal system is just the latest round in their long, calculated crusade to dominate and control every aspect of our lives, to disempower us, and leave us at their mercy, beck and call.
With all that seems to be going wrong
with America's economy, its democracy, its foreign policy, its media
monopoly, human rights and privacy abuses, fiscal plunder and national
bankruptcy, rampant corruption in all branches and at all levels of
government, it certainly makes it difficult, if not impossible, to know
where to begin. They always tell you to choose your battles carefully,
ones that you have some hope of winning. Maybe this is a place to start.
Maybe not.
I know one thing for sure.
We need to take a stand and take it now.
We need to tell the corporate oligarchs . . .
"Enough! Stop destroying our country or we will destroy you!"
Perhaps we can start by trying to saving the U.S. Postal Service.
Or is it too late?
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