Dear People: Come Together Right Now!

Dear Fellow Wisconsinites:

Come together right now or I am going to smack you. I have had it up to here!

We have all fallen under a spell. We believe that opinions about political party, religion, reproductive rights, union rights, etc. separate us.

That is an illusion. A magic trick. We may have differing opinions about those issues. But, we are being manipulated by power & money interests who are using those differences to turn us against each other.

There is only one issue: Power and money vs freedom and democracy. We are on the same side, Democrats and Republicans. We should all want freedom and democracy. Because if we don't all have it, none of us have it.

I have been watching a small group of very self-interested people drive wedges between various groups of normally sane people - and, it is depressing the hell out of me.

People have been manipulated into hatred & envy of school teachers - school teachers! People worth billions of dollars have manipulated middle class and working people into accusing teachers of being "rich." The absurdity of it should have us all agog!

Powerful politicians, and those who fund them, have managed to create hatred of working people & unions. The idea of "union thugs" went out of business in 1972, unions have and spend far less money than corporations do on political campaigns, and yet people are throwing those words at secretaries, nurses and, again, school teachers.  Unions have benefited the people of the USA in ways too numerous to list, yet people are showing hatred toward union members. Hatred!

People wealthy beyond our imagination have convinced average working class citizens that everyone should reduced to the lowest common denominator and no one should have decent benefits or vacations. And who does this benefit? Corporations now have a large pool of people who hate unions and don't believe that employees deserve a decent compensation package! How convenient for them

The powerful corporatists courted Evangelicals for 30 or 40 years. Do I believe that the powerful wo/men running gigantic oil companies and funding political campaigns don't believe in science? Hell, no! They don't care about religion, but they want Evangelicals to vote on single issues.

Powerful corporate and political interests want Evangelicals to hate gays, abortion, women's rights and other religions so they can be manipulated. All the powerful elite have to do is convince Evangelical voters that a party or a person or an issue is related to baby killing, gays, femi-nazis, Muslims and guns. So, anti-abortion single issue voters will vote against their own best interests, the environment, health care, desperately needed programs - or any other issue if they can be made to think they are voting "pro-life."

They don't care about conservatism. I am more conservatism than the Koch brothers. They are opportunists.

It is all about money & power. So, let's come together. It is not about political party - although that is the avenue of separating us. Divide and conquer.

Powerful corporate interests are keeping our eyes on baby killing and gays and femi-nazis and teacher hating with one hand and picking our pockets with the other.

I love us all, each and every one. I do not want to live in a fascist state.

Vivian


"Inequality is real, it's personal, it's expensive and it was created. Today, 1% of Americans are taking home nearly 20% of the country's total income and own nearly 35% of the country's wealth. This didn't happen by accident. As former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains, we allowed it to happen."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1y4ZNSjek