Get Real Chapter One

GET REAL
Chapter One

This December, we the people again observed this political reality.
Money controls government, and is administered by old white men.

Since day one, in the USA, the only valid power, expressed by the vote of the congress, has been reserved for wealthy, "white," men.
Period. To change this is nearly impossible, but it will happen when greed reaches a threshold of utter destruction of
the trade value of the dollar, rendering it useless.

But, as a liberal, I know and I have witnessed the inevitable progress that is also built into our country's fabric.

Women and "minorities" (a silly race-based term in itself) have the right to vote, despite pressures of cheating to strip them of any real power. African-americans have attained the right to use the same toilets, go to the same restaurants, despite the constant pressure of resegregation.

And it will continue. Our founding documents are, indeed, revolutionary.

In that tradition, do not be naive to think that substantial change will occur with the pull of one lever in one election. Look how many decades of real struggle it took to end slavery, to begin women's right to vote, to desegregate schools. It is a constant political and economic struggle. It will take that same, consistant, insistant, resistant push against old, "white," monied power to bring about real reforms.. healthcare, banking, equality. But that fight has been going on since way before this young, 225-year political experiment was born.

So, liberals, let us fight on, let us not let the past swallow us into despair, but platform us and move us forward to what we know is a better day for all. History teaches us that a struggle for justice and freedom is long, hard, and valuable.

I have seen, like never before, the attention of the workings of congress by their constituants.. that is progress. I have seen the people respond to stealing of elections by organizing and showing up in numbers that cannot be
disputed..that is progress. I have seen the OWM, (old "whiteman" money), capitulate with a blizzard of greed; they
know, as we all do, that change is coming.. so they hoard the past, fearing the inevitable future.

I know that if we liberals pull together, like individual oars in the stormy waters of struggle for justice, we will move this giant ship of America forward... and I hear Lady Liberty with the chant of stroke... stroke..stroke.. stroke...