Defend yourself!

More and more often, you hear the right-wing extremists condemning progressives for "class warfare" for pointing out the ways in which they commit that very act under false pretense. It's past time to call them on this hypocritical piece of treachery.

When the greed party of the 1980's hit in ernest, it was obvious that these guys claiming to create wealth out of nothing were in fact sucking it away from the rest of the economy. Now the fancy number-bumbling has caught up to them again in more real a way than just sparking a recession like it did under Bush Sr.

Just like in the 80's, it's the honest worker who gets hurt for the greed of the richest few. And the wealthy criminals responsible posess absolutely no remorse for the misery they've caused a great many people.

From putting millions of productive workers out of jobs in the 80's to doing so and destroying their pensions in the 00's, the target of right-wing treachery remains the worker who produces the goods and services by which the number-bumblers suck off the fruits of our labors.

It's blatently telling that the even as we near the bottom of the Great Recession, all the right-wing extremists in the GOP want to do is to relieve the richest few of even the threat of having to again pay their fair share of taxes, thereby keeping more of the tax burden on those who have the least. This while fighting tooth and nail against any Democratic measures to mitigate and reverse this economic disaster.

And just where are the jobs the richest 2% are creating, as per the official right-wing talking point? Only in the sweatshops of Red China.

The only hope for the productive citizens of this country is for everyone who makes less than $45,000 per year to pull together as a voting block and get rid of the bloodsuckers attacking us.

While the Democratic Party has it's share of corporate lapdogs, the more immediate threat is the Republican Party. For the time being, the Democratic party needs to be dealt with in primaries against those who capitulate to the Republican corporatists.

Enough said that the Citizens United ruling was made by a Republican-stacked bench.

Kind of shows how far they've come since Agnew was forced out of office for accepting a bribe.

Somewhere between Lincoln and Hoover, the Republican Party made a philosophical U-turn and has been speeding out of control since.

It took decades for this problem to get as bad as it is, and will take decades to fix. At least it will to clean up the Supreme Court. All that can be done is to keep the Republicans out of power until enough of their appointees have left the bench to correct the imbalance.

What really needs to be done is to vote the Republican Party clean out of existence. Impossible? Not in the context of American history. The past is full of examples of where one party has fallen from power too low to survive. The two-party nature of American politics always gives rise to another party to replace the one that goes.

This can even be seen in a look at a list of all the past Presidents and the parties from which they came.

And as deeply entrenched as the Republicans are, if the working class of this nation should truly unite in the voting booth, we can prove that the best way to counter big money is with bigger voting turnout.

Class warfare, you say? Hell yes! To condemn us for it is like going to any school yard and allowing the bullies to beat up the nerds all day, and then condemning any nerds who try to defend themselves for fighting. Heaven help any nerd who gets in a lucky kick somewhere it hurts!

It's time to throw off the pretense and go for it. The rich right has the resources and might to fend off any antisocial methods they would have us to resort to. We must fight from within the system and use our strength of numbers in the voting booths where it can become a source of empowerment.

And to those who take a defeatist view and don't vote at all, let me point out that the best changes in history have come about as the result of people sticking to their guns and plugging away for causes any reasonable person would have considered hopeless at the time.

The reason the rich have so much power is because we haven't used our numbers in the elections for the purpose of making a change like what I'm proposing.

It doesn't have to be an organized movement, either. All it takes is for us to look at the candidates, and vote our pocketbooks. That, on an individual basis will add up to a force to be reckoned with.