"Don't call for help, no one will heed you!"

We have the Republicans who peddle hatred and xenophobia and racism as a way of avoiding the shame of taking responsibility for the abject failure of their thirty year experiment in Reaganomics. Never in my lifetime have I seen workers laid so low as with this trickle-down, supply-side rape of Main Street America and the bankrupting of those who simply want to earn enough to support a family.

The "Hope & Change" election was supposed to be the moment we said "Enough is enough!" We elected for President and into both Houses of Congress supposed leaders who had a mandate to at last replace corporate ownership of government with a populist resurgence that would at last make government work for us. Unfortunately for us - and lucky for these Repubs - what we actually got instead was more of the DLC-Dems who stand for election, and damned little else. What we got instead was a DLC that substantiated the number one GOP Talking Point: "Government isn't the answer to your problems. Don't call for help, no one will hear you."
Listen, folks, people are hurting. They're hurting bad! They look for help, and discover the only thing we're being offered is fear itself.

"Fear Islam! Fear the Latinos! Fear Socialists! Fear the Black President! Fear the 'Other!'" say the Republicans.

The response?

"Fear the Republicans!" says the DLC. 

How about an alternative. How about: "Hey, Health Insurers. Fear US! Hey, Wall Street Bankers. FEAR US!! Hey, Bigots, and charlatans, and the media that loves 'em. FEAR US, DAMMIT!"

Who will stand and fight for US? Who will lead the charge against the bankers and the insurance companies and the corporations who have had their way with US for way too long?

So far, we find that the only thing we have is fear itself and it's not sustaining. Joblessness is epidemic. Home foreclosures are increasing. Personal wealth of the middle class has disappeared. Retirement is a pipe dream. The next Wall Street meltdown is assured, if only because the first one bore no negative consequences to those who own us. We see our Treasury plundered - not to help those who suffer - but instead to pay off the owners' bad bets at the Wall Street casino as well as put the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government behind their multi-million dollar bonuses and their Marie Antoinette smirks. Health Insurance Stocks rise, Health Insurance Lobbying continues as one of the few growth industries in this country, and yet nearly everyone I know remains one sickness away from bankruptcy if they can in fact afford healthcare at all.

We suffer, still. Pressure. All we feel is pressure. And anger, too. But all we're offered is fear. 

Fear the Republicans? That's the best you can offer, DLC? Ironically, my biggest fear is that we are about to find out in November that peddling fear in place of an alternative to those who trade in nothing but fear is a piss poor way to try to win elections.

Stand up and fight! Yeegads! At long last, won't you stand up and fight?