politics

Looking around the United States, it’s plain to see that things are going in many bad directions. Our middle class is disappearing as the oligarchs who run things have seen their share of the nation’s wealth increase exponentially. Growing numbers of people are forced to work low-wage jobs that don’t even pay enough for them to live a decent life. The corporations that employ them shift the burden to taxpayers for their employees’ basic needs such as food and medical care.

Our public schools are mostly a dysfunctional mess, and our infrastructure, once the pride of the world, is in shambles. Our children leave college buried in a lifetime of debt and can’t find work in a well-paying field. We ignore climate change, squander capital and goodwill waging needless wars. Our public transit systems are mostly third-world status.

In the face of all this, what can be said of politics? A totally corrupt and broken federal government, bloated beyond all comprehension, lining the pockets of the wealthy and connected while ignoring the country’s legitimate needs makes for a cynical citizen. My politics have always come down on the side of the little guy because that’s how I grew up. We need unions, reasonable minimum wages, a fairer tax structure, and a commitment to bring America back to the greatness we once had.  Washington DC is driven by corporate opportunists and bloodsucking lobbyists and we all suffer as a result.

My politics, always to the left, have grown more radical as I’ve matured and seen where the craven “leaders” of both miserable political parties have taken us.