Carl Hitchens - tracking the self …
Carl Hitchens - tracking the self …
2011
President Obama and Democrats in Congress:
Please don’t due us anymore “favors.” Your “protection” of our democratic right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has been tantamount to death by lethal injection. With every syringe full of your “triumphant” agreements with those who plunder the middle class and poor for the spoils of their earned labor, you kill our hopes and dreams—as if we are common criminals. As if our sweat of labor and perspiration of wages has not sufficiently watered American prosperity to earn us a place at its table.
Is it not clear with you yet?. . . Social Security is not just an entitlement; it is the ideological capstone for what defines the Democratic Party. If you touch it under the siege of the T-Party and GOP, you will have literally set in motion the demise of the Democratic Party and the end of any real democracy.
You can't seriously believe any perceived short-term "benefit" is worth that disastrous outcome.
When you are in the driver's seat, then you, as a party, can initiate dialogue for making Social Security even stronger. To allow it to have become a bargain chip for obstructionist toadies of corporations and rich elite getting their way is already a betrayal to us who believe that one nation is just that—all inclusive. You have left us in the streets of America fighting against a huge tide of corporate money and interests, while you seek, unsuccessfully, to elicit reason and sensibility from those who have none. In fact, who have intractably crossed swords against any such idea.
Enough is enough!
Get some spine. You’re either Democrats or the other guys and gals. Find your Democratic soul. Bargaining social security away for the sole security of robber barons disguised as fiscal conservatives is a lethal cocktail. Are you in the business of governing or pushing the dope of self-destruction into our veins?
Carl
Lethal Injection
7/21/11