Made Moon Blog

There are some who think the American attention span will not last forty-
five seconds much less forty-five days. By then all will be forgotten and
we’ll go back to our Blackberries and iTunes. Our ports will go on to be
managed by foreign entities because we must indulge the “friends” we
do have. Whoa! This administration has seen to it that America has no
friends, certainly none who have ties to sworn enemies who hate our
guts.

Tax cuts for the rich will be made permanent by the “corpocracy”
because it’s good for business. What about what’s good for the people?
Funding for health care, veteran’s benefits and education is being cut
drastically. The coming hurricane season is predicted to be very bad.
The Gulf Coast, God forbid, could suffer another disaster. Show us the
money to rebuild and protect it. Show us the money for our damaged
veterans.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) was a cowboy from Oklahoma who became
America’s most beloved humorist. Not since Mark Twain had the country
seen or heard such criticism in the form of witticism. While expertly
twirling his rope, Rogers would stand in front of an audience and, in his
western manner, make people laugh at his insightful jabs at politics and
government. Here are two of his quotes. And remember, this was back
in the 1920s.

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to
happen to us with both a Senate and a House?” “On account of being a
democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world
that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.”

We can go back a century earlier in our history, to Abraham Lincoln who
said: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time. But you can’t fool all of the people all of the
time.” Yeah, right.

Except for the formal manner in which people wrote and spoke in those
days, the following Abraham Lincoln quote could come right out of
today’s blogs.

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have
been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow and the
money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by
working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated
in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”

“Corporations have been enthroned…” Scary isn’t it? But are the
majority of Americans so fearful today; so complacent they will allow
their precious democracy and taken-for-granted freedoms to go down
the rabbit hole? My father fought in one war, my brother in another.
Today our young men and women are dying for those same freedoms.
Many are suffering unimaginable wounds to body and soul, scars that
will be with them the rest of their lives. They do their duty and they don’t
complain. It’s time we on the home front do our duty, speak out, make
our voices heard above the din of politics and business and the
“corpocracy” that has deceived and failed us. What does it take for we
the people to rise up and end this never-ending nightmare?

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