memo to congress: cut the crap about capitalism(& stop pretending you represent us)

[xchrom]

http://www.nationofchange.org/memo-congress-cut-crap-about-capitalism-and-stop-pretending-you-represent-us-1357460307

The "American people" you pretend to represent do not exist. It's all of us out here in the "real America" – you know, the one outside the beltway – who do exist. We work for a living, nurture our kids, support our schools, obey the laws you make, and, yes, pay our taxes. Meanwhile, the great majority of your kind (with a few notable and indispensable exceptions), enjoying benefits, incomes, and privileges our kind will never know, steadfastly refuse to speak for us.

You may have noticed that we are a very diverse society. This diversity is a great strength, except when it's not, like when it divides us so deeply and irreconcilably that we are paralyzed by it. What divides us as a people more than anything else now is ideology. Not religion, not race, not political affiliation, but ideology.

Watching Congress fumble, stumble, and sink into ever-deeper disrepute one could easily get the impression that the problem is partisanship: "Conservatives" and Republicans versus "Liberals" and Democrats. In fact, however, that's not the case since you've so mangled these words that they no longer have any real meaning.

So-called Tea Party Republicans using Fox News like a mass-media manure spreader are extremists incompatible with traditional conservatism in the U.S. Extremists in Congress now typically use the word "liberal" as a pejorative and absurdly label liberals as "socialists"! Terms that once framed our political discourse are meaningless, hopelessly stuck in the sludge of ugly propaganda and smear tactics thanks in no small part to such distinguished lawmakers as Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee in the Senate or Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Michelle Bachmann, and Steve King in the House.

[samsingh]

1. kick

[corkhead]

2. send this message to any of them, wrapped around a bundle of $100 bills, and maybe they'll read it.