Shackles!

How dare anyone criticize our vice president for using this word? Whose interest do they serve? This was not a gaff; this was a whisper in place of a scream.  Desolate we have become in our chains. Blanketed and comforted by our own restraints, conformed in a distorted illusion of what was once a great system; the only system worth living in. We as Americans have an immense responsibility to the world for what we have created. Democracy and liberty for all are not hollow words reserved for the fortunate. It is for all who respect justice and fairness. They have distorted our freedom by dividing us with extremes, having us argue over misaligned details.

My eyes were opened wide during the crash of 2008. It was then that I realized as so many others have, that our way of being is in fact in jeopardy. That the notions of true freedom and law have been usurped by a group of kings and power brokers. A new war of independence is upon us. We must free ourselves from the strangle hold of greed that has rooted itself in our capitalist system and stained our sacred halls and marble floors of government. Even the occupy movement, although brave dedicated and honorable, was clouded in the American sickness of mediocrity. Why did they not demand money out of our politics?  All those who say this can’t be done wrongly embrace their chains because it is only laws that can save us from oligarchical crimes. Only laws can prevent trade with slave wage and dismantle the corporate Fed investment banks’ communist structure syphoning the globes’ investments through extraction and manipulation. Only with laws can we wean ourselves off of the fossil fuels destroying our planet. Only without legal corruption can we pass these laws. Politics and news should not be part of our entertainment. What we must do is simple and must be repeated until it is done. Special interests do not just influence our government, they control our government.  Now it is clear, nothing more be said or thought out, we must occupy Washington and demand all money out of politics. One single solidarity demand fulfilled and we can be free from these chains. We do not need to occupy any other city.

The truth is hard and cold, it’s a messy crayon drawing without the neat iconic shapes we want. The tightest most painful shackles we wear are those of mental complacency. There are two essential issues that are imprisoning us with neglect; a neglect and denial that can take our freedom, stripping us of our way of life and the planet’s destruction.  A big news story is one with constant updates and new angles to exploit for entertainment attention grabbing purposes. A big story is not a stalemate based on stagnant distortion but that’s the reality of these issues. THE ICE IS MELTING, AND FOSSIL FUELS NEED TO BE BANNED BECAUSE OF THAT, END OF DISCUSSION. To hell with conserving energy, that’s a scam for them to buy more time to distort. What issue is more important than converting to sustainable energy? The second essential issue being ignored and threatening to take away our cherish freedoms is the complete restructuring of the global economic system. Investment banks, headed by the Fed have created an unsustainable model that allows investors and shareholders the means to syphon off assets without them being allocated to further business and growth. Despite their incredibly successful effort to cloak this reality; CAPITALISM AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT NO LONGER EXSISTS. We are living a lie that will continue to eat away at jobs, the value of currency and the availability of credit until nothing is left but what has been syphoned off. What will the wealthy do if riots break out when the formerly employed middle class and working class masses join the anarchists? The conspiracies against us are blatant but they are so entrenched and wide spread in their methods that they are considered too complex and yet ironically too abstract for the media to consider the story that must be hammered on until things change; until those that our part of the problem are voted out of office. THE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE OUR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS TO IS GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS because our government will not criminalize the continued syphoning of global assets until the hand that feeds them is cut off. It was a sad day when Dylan Ratigan went off the air, despite Spitzer on Current, a channel I don’t get, his was the only show banging the drum. There is a way to bang that drum while still paying the piper; Ratigan showed us that.

WHAT OBAMA NEEDS

What Obama needs to do to win in November basically is convince independent voters that he will cut the deficit and spending. The majority of marginally independent voters who currently plan on voting for Romney erroneously blame President Obama for our massive deficit in fact spurred by Bush Tax cuts, Iraq, Afghanistan and the crash of 2008. The president must relentlessly promote the fact that he has cut spending and pushed for a 4 trillion dollar cut in the deficit that the republicans voted against. I envision a commercial with sound from the president during that speech during which he proposed these cuts followed by quotes from Romney threatening more war and tax cuts for the wealthy. Obama commercials should feature clips of democrats angry at the president for his cuts in spending and his attempts to cut more. This is really the only issue Romney has to combat the president. Let’s hope if Obama does manage to win he will move to the left and get to the business of regulating Wall Street and the banks; not to mention reversing the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United position with some legislation and oh yeah that little thing called fossil fuels that are destroying our planet. Any attempts Romney makes to paint Obama as being anti-business should be met with his efforts to cut taxes for small business while laying out what more the government can do to help small businesses and manufacturing as well as infrastructure spending. When asked about spending he must first tout his spending cuts, then immediately go into the type of government spending he wants that Romney is not willing to commit to. While the president should focus on what Romney won’t do and will do in office that will hurt America, the Democratic PAC’s meanwhile must unleash hard attacks against his personal income taxes, or lack thereof, his foreign accounts and Bain, Bain, and more Bain including outsourcing, and Bain’s involvement in medical waste catering to abortion clinics. The sole task must be to pin point independents, discourage some moderate conservatives, and increase voter turnout among the youth, blacks, and the democratic base. For the latter Obama should come clean and point out his mistakes while committing to rectifying them. Here he can omit specifics that could hurt him with independents something the president and his image specific handlers have failed to do. Obama needs to address the occupy movement and plead with them to turn their movement toward him to motivate the base. The president must say, I have heard you, I will listen, and together we will work to end the corruption. To alienate this group is to alienate the youth vote and discourage turn out.  Romney has said he would regulate credit derivatives. Obama can not let Romney get that upper hand in. That’s Romney’s only salvo, that in his mind wins him the trust of intelligent conservatives, who realize we’re heading over a cliff in a hand basket. Obama needs to point out how Romney doesn’t even know where the reigns are because he doesn’t care. He needs to paint Romney as an egomaniac thrusting for fame and power. An elitist that sees himself hanging in a White House portrait as the savior of excess, a champion for the upper class; an image the extreme right pundits can embrace, to the detriment of less independent voices. The voices Obama desperately needs.