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Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
Thu Mar 3, 2016, 05:32 PM Mar 2016

An open letter to Hillary and any DNC members tipping the scale for HRC from a common non-elite man

I often resist the urge to poorsplain' to Hillary Clinton and the obviously financially secure members of the DNC (especially you Debbie Wasserman Schultz) and all the others in the Democratic establishment that keep telling us how well we are all doing, how we are in recovery, how we are on the right track and will continue on this "right track" if we come to heel, just ignore a better option for us and simply elect your wealthy associate Hillary Clinton, after all, those that matter, those that can fill the DNC coffers, will have great access to such a President!

What about our access to a lack of worry about our electricity or gas being cut off because we are juggling bills?
What about our access to a lack of fear of eviction when the numbers don't add up and rent can't be paid that month?
What about our access to a dignified, well-funded mass transit system?
What about our access to education without a lifetime of crushing debt as well as job opportunities that leave us above poverty?

These are questions I ask on a daily basis. What might shock some of you cheerleaders of a system rigged by the elite, for the elite is that those are among the most common thoughts to enter the minds of the average American in this day and age, yes, I said average, but it really is more like the majority of Americans. The majority of us have been left behind in an economy where we lose more each day as the well to do gain more each day, what makes matters worse is that we no longer appear to have much in the way of representation no matter how we vote even if we vote as our own party would have us vote.

I would give what little remains of my life for a party of the people, a labor party, a party that is concerned about the rising and rampant poverty all around the insulated bubbles of the few remaining middle class and the members of our wealthy political elite that love to tell me how great we are doing, how progressive our party is, how our leaders "feel our pain".

I would poorsplain' to you all what the true reality is, our party that once represented the people has for the past thirty years abandoned us to decay as a people as completely as they have abandoned the crumbling bridges, roads, and empty factories that once were the life blood of a people first marginalized, then ignored, and now completely invisible. - it is as if the majority of Americans do not exist to you in your ivory towers.

I would do this splainin' but such is condescension, and anger does not translate well as condescension, but rather rage repressed becomes expressed, and you are an insulated bubble of cheer leading "sports team" enthusiasts that do not have the worries of the common man and as such are quite fragile and easily offended, so much so that you would at first silence me within your "hallowed" halls were I to quietly attempt to poorsplain' to you in person the nature of the reality of the suffering all around you that you are blind to.

Then my condescension would turn to rage and a louder voice, yet before the first paragraph were completed such truth told loudly and plainly would usher in your well suited goons that protect those as privileged as yourselves who would have me roughly handled out the door if not prison itself for my impassioned attempt at "free speech". For such free speech is only allowed from mouths that are fed from golden spoons within such "hallowed" halls as yours....
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