The first step is recognizing the problem.
That shouldn't be hard. When you look at the corrupt process underway in Washington today as the White House and the Democratic Congress try to produce what they are euphemistically calling a "health reform bill, you can see the problem. The whole process is being distorted and controlled by the very corporations that have produced the dysfunctional system that we have today. It's as if one were expecting the ants that were eating away the beams to rebuild my barn.
When you look at the war in Afghanistan, which is getting bigger and uglier by the day, even as nearly two thirds of the public says they want it to be ended, you can see how little democracy we have left in America. The only ones really benefiting from this war are the war industries "and of course the military, which keeps eating up more and more of our collective wealth.
The way I see it, it's time to take matters back into our own hands. We need to get out the wrecking bars, the hammers and the saws, and start ripping out the rot and the decay, and rebuilding the structure with solid, durable materials. We don't have to rebuild it the way it was "installing solar panels would make sense, and maybe we could add more windows to make the whole thing more visible than it used to be.
We should however, vow this time to keep all the manure down in the stalls in the basement.
No more chicken sh*t on the upper floor.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a journalist and sometime carpenter living outside Philadelphia. His latest book is "The Case for Impeachment (St. Martin's Press, 2006). His work can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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