Our country, our freedoms and our lives have been stolen from us.

[Cyrano]

Most of us were raised to believe we lived in a land in which fairness and justice were the norm, and everyone had a chance to succeed if we played by the rules.

Well, if you don’t yet understand it, it was all bullshit.

Our entire system is rigged for what George Bush Jr. so revealing called his base of voters/backers: “… the haves and the have mores.”

It’s no mystery who they are. They are the uber-wealthy. They own most of our politicians. They own most of our media. They own most of the world’s natural resources. They control most of the world’s wealth. And, like it or not, they own most of us.

However, what they don’t yet own is our anger, our outrage, our sense of fair play, our knowledge that we are constantly being screwed by them, and our (limited) ability to stand up and fight back.

The one thing we have going for us is that we understand them better than they understand us. And by us, I don’t mean those who have been deceived and/or frightened by them. I mean we who grasp their greed, their lust for more power and wealth, and their inability to ever have enough.

But what they don’t understand is our resilience, our determination, or our sheer hatred of everything they’ve done to us – including their efforts to enslave us. It’s possible that they’ve underestimated us and believe us all to be fools. And this is their Achilles heel.

The first thing that must be stopped is their attack on unions. After all, unions give us peasants the ability to organize. And at the same time, we must stop their ability to buy and/or steal elections. Which means that each and every one of us must get out and vote at every election and help our friends and neighbors do the same. And we must somehow banish the rigged voting machines.

I know there is probably much more we can do to fight back. And I’d really like to hear your ideas and suggestions on each and every action we can take against our homegrown enemies.

[Horse with no Name]

1. Excellent.

What they also don't realize is that one day in the very near future, that even faux and rush and beck, et al won't be able to appease its viewers with rhetoric and blame-games.

End game is near if not already here and sides will have to be taken. All but the seriously deranged will have no choice but to understand the steps that will need to be taken to "take our country back"...and this time, it won't be from the "Democrats" or the "illegal aliens".
It will be from the REAL bad guys.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. I've long been concerned about the world my children will inherit.

Only recently have I begun to think it might very well include insurrection. :-(

[Vincardog]

3. Amend the Constitution so only NATURAL persons have rights. Kill Corporate 'person-hood' at least

give them their own AMT.

[Tippy]

4. One thing we need to remember.......Voting is vitally important

If Dems stay home they win...

[raouldukelives]

5. Stop supporting corporations that they own

Don't work for them, work against them. Watch where your 401k investments go. You don't really want to profit off the MIC, oil and health insurers anyway. Invest in companies you think are beneficial. Try to bicycle or walk as much as possible. Starve the beast.

[Fire1]

8. That's been my plan since Jordans and Nikes went up to

2 and 300.00 a pair and that was something like fifteen or twenty years ago. Sold my gas guzzling SUV and bought an economy car over six years ago. It'll be paid off this summer and I'm not buying a new one.

[AKDavy]

6. Emma Goldman said...

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

We've entered a phase where the two parties offer us bad and worse--two sides of a two-headed coin minted by a corporate state. The corporations have taken over the machinery of democracy, leaving only the illusion of representative government, and change from within the system is no longer possible.

My children's and grandchildren's futures do hold insurrection. To paraphrase JFK, who was latered quoted by MLK: Because peaceful revolution has been made impossible, violent revolution has been made inevitable.

I am not advocating, merely predicting.

[whattheidonot]

9. not sure.

i am not sure about that. Voters have to be registered and they have to vote and exit pools and paper receipts have to be given. If the masses vote thing change. if the election is rigged then all hell breaks loose. The poor have to vote. After the disillusionment of Obama people are down. THe disappointment should make it all the more clear why change is needed. If the rich do not like it and they do not contribute let them leave.

[AKDavy]

11. Obama is a tool, like presidents before him

If the corporations can't buy the elections, they buy the elected, with very few exceptions.

[Fire1]

12. Absolutely. n/t

[wiggs]

7. the American Dream used to be: work hard and you can raise a family in a

house you own. They've corrupted it to mean that we need to protect millionaires because THAT'S the American Dream and we don't want to ruin your chances to become one.

For solutions you have to start with protecting unions, addressing consolidation of media by RW owners and companies, election integrity, ensuring that wealthy carry fair share of taxes commensurate with the many blessings this country has allowed them to reap. Citizens United and lobbying rules and public financing of elections are in the mix.

It's an uphill battle and each of the items above have been tilted toward the RW and their alliance with corporate power...planned decades ago and implemented with billions of dollars and brilliant ruthlessness.

[GeorgeGist]

10. Capitalism at it's finest.