Middle class

First of all I have been fighting this bombastic running dialogue in my head all day about the middle east. It is maddening to read and watch our illustrious leaders play the blame game etc. In trying to keep my blog in a positive tone I will avoid this topic. (at least for now)

And talking about the middle class is not always roses either.


Lets get started though.

There isn't a middle class lobby, a middle class super pac, large amount of think tanks dedicated to our needs, or any other highly funded organization dedicated to whatever criminal political activity these organizations do for their constituencies. Yet the middle class has the potential to be the most dynamic political group in the country. To this day , bar none, the middle class could still rule this country. So why don't we?

Probably many reasons are applicable. Which one(s) though seem to get in the way? Is it complacency? Are we stuck in a rut? Are we waiting for some super hero candidate to run for President and solve all our problems such as Clinton for the Democrats or Reagan for the Republicans? Can the middle class overcome this diehard notion that we can find the next hero?

I don't know. Congress really is set up to be their best friend politically, but has been hijacked by special interests etc for their own benefit.

So what happens? Well I still have hope. (somedays). How do you find the inspiration to shake the middle class from their own morass?

I think some true grass roots members of the nascent tea party a few years ago thought they were on to something. Unfortunately it was stolen from them before it really got started. I don't know if the behind the scenes money and a few media leaders were in it from the first, but now the tea party has been taken over by them and far right extremists using it now to enforce their brand of rightist thinking to shove down our throats one unholy dogmatic piece of putrid politics under the guise of getting rid of all the bad guys in D.C. . A person wonders do the true grass roots members actually looking for something better know what hit them?

Yet

Yet

Yet

there is still so much potential for this country. It will take the middle class taking their rightful place in the forefront of American politics to achieve this goal. This country was designed for an educated electorate to find ways to advance the concept of moving man forward with a responsive flexible government that can adapt to an ever changing world. Right now though you hear the ball bouncing down the road and no one going to puck it up. We dropped the ball and we have no one to blame, but ourselves.

And actually we don't have to make changes in anything we just need to act. Can it be done through the current two party system, technically yes, but I'm not holding my breath. Will we accept the two parties are so bloated with their own hubris to be able to change, again I'm not holding my breath. Will another party or split like the tea party ever muster up enough support to make changes? We might hope.

So in this 2014 election year where does that leave us? Hopefully we can start realizing we are in charge of our destiny and make the right decisions to prove to the world a fledgling democracy is worth having around.

Our country has much to do to get our own act together and maybe the whole world isn't ready for democracy....yet, but we have a responsibility to ourselves and others to show self respect and build on what our founding fathers created.

It is technical, political, philosophical, ideological, and work to get it started. Time to get this party started.



Hot and humid almost summer night here in North Texas, World Cup is now in full swing, looks like a couple of teams have already clinched going to the next round. It is and always can be a great time to be alive, we just need to make it so.