The pain and rage of powerlessness. It is uniting all Americans by the day.

[seafan]

It's clear.


There is growing white-hot fury among the people as the onslaught of enraged divisiveness seizes every corner of America over health care failure; jobs lost; manufacturing closed down and shipped to foreign lands; environmental destruction; tainted food; contaminated water supplies; trillions in pharmaceutical/insurance company profits; trillions in Wall Street bailouts with taxpayer money; corrupt current and former government officials; money-driven political campaigns; raging confusion in the population that is stoked by paid corporate organizations; incessant wars and occupations pushed by those who profit from them; the loss of international reputation; corrupt leaders who order torture in our names.


There is an ever-growing volcano of rage in America.


It seems everyone is enraged, and not always able to articulate why.


This kind of visceral rage and pain emanates from powerlessness. Americans are seeing that the power they entrusted to their elected officials, to wield the power of government to improve our lives, has been stolen.

Our power has been stolen by the ruthless armies of the Corporations.



Corporate control over our government is the source of the toxic brew that is poisoning our people and our land.



For nearly 80 years, Corporations backed by rigid authoritarian ideology have waged war against us. Against our presidents. Against our livelihoods. Against our educational institutions. Against our children. Against our access to truthful news. Against our dignity as we age.

The Corporations have used malleable leaders to do their bidding and to allow them to encroach ever more tightly into governmental power. When necessary, people such as Richard Nixon pitted Southerner against Southerner and then, against Northerner in his infamous Southern Strategy. People were manipulated emotionally with inflammatory rhetoric about race, abortion, guns and religion.

That kind of splintering of the population guaranteed ever-growing control of Corporations over our government, as it virtually assured the continued election of those who would welcome the ascent of Corporate power.



Pitting the population against each other facilitated rogue administrations to wage illegal wars and maintain ongoing covert aggression in countries such as those in South America.

Pitting the population against each other facilitated deconstruction of national safeguards against widespread financial corruption.

Pitting the population against each other facilitated closing down our nation's manufacturing base and shipping it to workers of third word countries.

Pitting the population against each other opened the door for those trying mightily to privatize Social Security, making it highly vulnerable to economic collapse.

Pitting the population against each other has made us poorer, sicker, less educated, less employed, and less confident in our government.


Pitting the population against each other has allowed election thievery.



For the better part of the last century, Corporations have increasingly entrenched themselves into our government.

Franklin D. Roosevelt warned us against this.

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That is, in essence, fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 27, 1936

We refuse to be splintered from each other any longer. We must channel the rage that is a spreading firestorm into a common purpose of removing corporate control, in all of its forms, from our government.

For all of their money, The Corporations will never be matched by Our Power.


Our Power. The men. The women. The children. The teachers. The doctors. The farmers. The workers. The scientists. The fearful. The racists. The isolationists. The religious.


It is time for all Americans to unite against this travesty.


We are moving in that direction. We must move together.


Only then will we regain Our Power.

[Gman2]

1. I'm not sure we have enough veins popping for that. I wish. That too is my battle.