A Rough Road Back To Democracy

As I try to look at the many op-ed/blogs posted on politics each day there is always one that just makes me smile. This post(Of course im not speaking of my own) gives a great commentary of the nasty word that is our existence...Oligarchy.




http://www.thenation.com/article/37889/no-oligarchy



But lets get to the point at hand...if its truly about rich and poor, how did the poor get so many participants?






Really, I am asking a genuine question. How or when did this country, this planet just morph into a state of oligarchical malaise?






While we, the little people, bicker and fight over how we look or disagree over semantics and who has the right idea; the rich have gotten their idea. And don't doubt for a moment that they are running with their plan, its well thought out and implemented long before we came to the conclusion that democracy has long past us by.






While we discuss skin tone, gender, age, or whether its cool or not to belittle and demean some one with a physical disability...the rich are getting richer.






Now of course many will say you are preaching to the choir. I say we are still out of tune and sync. We may not need to have one song to sing, but at least be in agreement with the song listing.






Are we so ego-driven that the tools the rich use everyday can give them more power while we happily hand it to them? Are we, readers of the many books that warned us of such a state, just blind to the fact that Orwell and his writings are being used today to keep us right where we don't want to be? Are we that blind, naive, or intellectually dishonest?






I hear about capitalism is good for you and me...really? Did you get a bailout by demanding it? I hear that climate control is a hoax...really? So breathing good clean air is a BAD thing? I hear how the poor are the bad people...really? Did the poor destroy your 401k? I actually once heard that I should thank god for the rich people that "gives" us jobs...really? God likes the past and present actions of the rich? I hear helping the poor is throwing good money after bad...really? I wonder how the poor would feel if they were to vote based on truth and not on skin tone, bra size, hair color, religion, or zero sum myths? Would the rich stay rich?






C'mon, as one of my mentors use to tell me, we are better than this. Aren't we?