From the Left-The Daily Commercial: It’s going to be a long walk home, America

By VICKI BUSH

A democracy’s functioning mainstay economy is about stability, safety, and secure jobs. Jobs with a purposeful reality where expectation is an assurance toward a reliable future. While those who have laid hold to seats of power wreak chaos, the consequence of damaged and destroyed sacred institutions becomes more and more apparent every day.

American exceptionalism, our freedoms, and our chosen representation are being held captive by failed masters. Democracy and human life are being extorted for personal gain with unwavering corruption and incompetence. Pacification cult mentality manipulation, in which a wannabe absolute ruler strives to become savior, easily thrives in chaos and tough times. Fear can override reason. Those who greedily wield and abuse wealth and power will not save us.

For decades, the GOP fed the gap against upward mobility. The wider and more pronounced the gap between expectation and reality, the less achievable for the worker. Keeping power in check by concentrating it into the hands of the wealthy upper caste class made it easier to manipulate those faltering from job implosion, austerity, and income stagnation to seek safety under demagogues and those who promise superiority by turning on those below them.

America’s governmental representation is to be chosen by its people – not by foreign interference, not by big oil, not by the party elite, and not by a religious minority. An individual clean vote unmanipulated by machine software, coercive analytics, suppression, gerrymandering, or hack and troll is not too much to ask of the people’s government. Party’s should be well beyond dropping opposition votes into a county political boss’s wastepaper basket. If we are as great as we tout, then we should be able to accomplish a mandated clean vote.

Toward the end of George W. Bush’s second term a recession was imminent. Sucking the life out of the real economy, predator capitalists moved toward financialized speculation, in other words – short term risk betting, on bets. The newly elected 2008 Administration had to quickly solution and fix the economic meltdown caused by Wall Street’s greed and Republican leadership’s laissez-faire attitude. “Mainstreet” economic democracy came to the rescue.

When the power shift of 2008 had sunk in; it was too much for the Grand Old Party to reflectively absorb. To quell their brain fog incomprehension of what many in the party feared would be a dystopian future for rich white folk, an order was dictated, produced, and funded by a fiercely conservative corporate force of family fortune oil magnates and far-right libertarians who viewed predatory capitalism as the only real social safety net necessary.

Their solution? A so-called grass roots assemblage that rose up from the ashes of right-wing libertarian foundation money now known as the Tea Party. Retroactively fueled through the ghost of John Birch and his secret society, this new 21st century society espoused the beginnings of what became the make America great again tenet; a gullible guise of middle-class tax cuts. Those mid-century white flight suburban Happy Days of anti-Semitism, bigotry, and segregation came back with a vengeance.