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There's no doubt that America is in trouble. Economically, politically, and in so many ways they're difficult to enumerate. Voodoo economics has finally been proved to be just so much nonsense, and out-sourcing of American jobs combined with a lack of interest in creating new industries to take the places of ones that are leaving, have come dangerously close to breaking the back of the middle class.
The middle class has provided that much needed stabilizing rod between the poor and the rich. A strong middle class allowed for a strong social safety net and made it possible to extend a hand downward to help people climb. Not as many as there could have been, certainly, but it was certainly better than the alternative.
College tuition rates have skyrocketed. Housing costs have jumped up. Transportation, utilities, and simple food prices are threatening to go through the roof. The only ones gaining ground are the ones who have nothing to worry about.
So what does America choose to do about it? Apparently they've decided to elect for President the ONE person who has no plan to change anything significant. We desperately need change, and serious change. We need to address SO many issues that it's difficult to point to just one instance as an example.
The system is perilously close to fracturing. Corporations are intent on sucking the last bit of money and labor out of us, even if such behavior is destructive to themselves in the long run. No one in the corporate world, or at least no one of consequence, is interested in discussing ways to preserve the middle class as a viable entity, even though it's the middle class that provides the backbone that moves the economy forward.
We're in trouble folks, and yet we're being handed a candidate who's pretty much made it clear that she's all for the status quo. We're going to slap a bandaid on a spurting neck wound and call it good. We're going to continue to hemorrhage money and lives in an un-winnable war, support efforts to take more of our jobs overseas, and continue to give the corporate lobbyists all the access they'd ever want.
Real change is not only necessary, it's inevitable. The question at this point is whether the change is voluntary and positive, or involuntary and negative. Serious action is necessary to prevent a very serious recession, if not a depression. If something is not done, something severe, our next President is going to inherit not only a quagmire of a war, but a rapidly degenerating economic situation that will NEVER be solved by giving the lobbyists their way.
So slap that lipstick on that pig, continue rearranging the chairs, and wave Hillary into the White House. Then stand back. The status quo is killing us. But that's what makes the people feel safe. Because the people don't know what's coming, or what the stakes are. That safety is illusory.
I can understand why the general voting public wants Hillary. Some of it's celebrity, some of it's nostalgia for the Clinton years, and some of it's the novelty of actually realizing the possibility of a female President. But I don't get why anyone here, arguably some of the smartest, most politically perceptive and involved people I've ever known, would see her as part of a possible solution to the problems confronting us.
Unless she does a hard shift leftward, away from the complete idiocy of the Republican agenda, she's going to continue many of the policies that put us here in the first place.
And then where will we be?
In a world of hurt. Quite literally.
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