"Dum Spiro Spero". While I breath, I hope. I know that two years ago we all hoped after the miserable incompetence, corruption, Corporate domination, and misled and now disgraced worldview of the last Administration, possibly the worst in American history that finally we could have some sanity and real Progressive change in our government to truly address the problems we faced. We took to the streets and rallied for it, and amassed in huge numbers in 2006 and 2008 and demanded it.
Now it seems that we are back to just the hope. We still hope that one day work will once again be as valued as wealth. We still hope one day that America will not pick out any particular group and single them out for persecution simply because they are different and their numbers are too small to have much power in a Republic so their rights are simply ignored. We still hope that millions of our fellow citizens can get medical care without bankrupting themselves if they are hurt, get sick, and we still hope that millions of Americans that are already sick can afford their medicines and care.
We still hope that we will finally show the world that we are not a laughingstock and we can learn from bad mistakes made by us in Vietnam, and the Russians in Afghanistan and finally bring ALL our troops home from combat in the Middle-East and end the disgraceful occurence in our country's history that is known as the "War on Terror". A disgrace that has cost us far too many lives, and over a trillion dollars.
We still hope that the never-ending war waged by the elites who wish to horde all the money and further decimate the middle-class turning our country into a sickening version of Old World Europe will finally be exposed and those facist forces defeated. For my whole life I have seen them wage a most effective war, in fact the only successful war of my lifetime in this country against the working class. Indeed, they are the ones who have waged constant class warfare as they outsourced our middle-class jobs, broke down our unions and left us to fight each other for scraps off their table.
Right now, as I consider the prospects of so much I hope for as dim as they ever were I still must hope. Despite the myth that is pushed off on America as a liberal or Progressive I do not hate my country. I care deeply about the America we will pass on to the next generation and the path we are on and especially the fact that that path never seems to change, even under Democrats. Yes, it seems the "bi-partisanship" we have seen in the last few decades consists soley of a Republican President getting exactly what he wants, or a Democratic President selling us down the river to give the Republicans just what they want.
I still hope to be heard and for our country to wake up, stand up, and band together and fight. Show everyone in the leadership of both parties that we demand real change. Yes, with all this hope comes the responsibility to fight and make those hopes come true.
For now I guess at least the hope still remains... |
