I hope it is apparent to even the most paranoid of beady-eyed Blue Dog Democrats that pandering to conservative constituents is as meaningless and destructive as pandering to Conservative ideas...especially economic ones. It is downright maddening.
Let's get real here. Neocon economic policies are just plain broke. If you are a conservative of any stripe...let go...your country and your platform are bankrupt. Middle-America is on life support. Blue Dogs get over your "moderate" positions. They are rooted in an 8+ year delusion of pure propaganda and compromise that has brought this country to it's knees and your collusion with Republicans has brought us to this point.
The stats are all in and the graphs are all plotted. Working class America knows what time it is. The Banks, the Oil Companies, attorneys and predatory Capitalists are circling like vultures on a Buffalo herd massacre.
Your alabaster oligarchies are in the public crosshairs whether you really care to see or not. We can already hear your hyena howls of greedy feasting when leftists suggest the necessary legislation to reign in this time of economic terror.
The stench of greed, war, corruption and callous disregard for humanity hangs heavy like a putrid gorging Saturnalia of Pax Americana.
Call me a neurotic. Accuse me of paranoia. Say I'm unpatriotic. Blow me off as doing too much window pane in the 60's, but the misery and pain of the working classes is not your pavlovian dinner bell to create your laissez-faire utopia.
We shall overcome.
This is not intended to be cynical. I am trying to tell a very real personal story of what I see at the ground troop level. Like the troops in Iraq, I have been willing to support Democracy, the American way... initially.
But a long protracted war of survival in the economic trenches of American small business and community involvement brings a whole new perspective of what's really happening on the ground. We, the foot soldiers of credit enslavement, are in low morale and mutiny is in the air.
The banks will write off their losses. Investors will shift their capital. Government will raise the debt ceiling with a clink of champagne glasses.
And homelessness and despair will affect more than the official Consumer Confidance Index for the fickle shopping moods of the ruling elite.