We are faced with a choice in this year's election nearly identical to the one our parents and grandparents faced in 1944: we can choose Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, and watch them--probably using tactics similar to those described by Naomi Klein in her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine --quickly consolidate the One Percenters' political and economic hold over this country by using some manufactured disaster as an excuse to finish destroying the social safety net that started with FDR and Social Security; or we can choose Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and elect the most progressive House and Senate candidates we can possibly find to stop the oligarch's takeover.
We must also take control of the Democratic Party at the local and state level (as the Tea Party has the GOP), end the two party domination of our electoral process that is at the heart of so many of our political problems today, force our politicians to create the changes in our laws needed to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United (and with luck and hard work, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad , 1886; see my May 12, 2010 OpEdNews article " Against the Corporate State ," as well as Thom Hartmann's excellent book Unequal Protection for the underhanded way in which corporations in America achieved "personhood") , and at long last restore control of our government to the only people in whose hands it is truly safe--We the People.
It is time for us to at long last make the dreams of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt our nation's reality.
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