“Happy Days Are Here Again?”

Let’s hear it for all those who believe the lyrics made famous by Franklin Delano Roosevelt – “Happy Days Are Here Again.” For whom?

Let’s hear it for all the fat cats on Wall Street who have stolen this country blind, aided and abetted by a compliant White House and Justice Department, all the while disparaging the very ones who have been reduced to life at the subsistence level by their evil and sinister schemes and practices.

Let’s hear it for all the fat cats in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government who have, without a modicum of shame, sold out the very people who cast their votes and gave their contributions to those already in or seeking a place in government, ostensibly to “serve the people.”

Let’s hear it for all the corporate capitalists who have sold out the means of earning an honest living to slave markets around the world that have benefitted from their unbridled greed in order to make the most from those who have the least, at the expense of Americans who once labored in their service.

Let’s hear it for all those living in opulent splendor as their inherent right while countless millions wait patiently in lines at local food banks, soup kitchens and employment offices hoping for just enough to support life and limb for yet another day.

Let’s hear it for all those who disdain those of lesser means as “deadbeats,” “moochers,” and “lazy parasites,” etc. as they covet the body beautiful, abs of steel, perennial erections and pendulous boobs that border on the obscene, all symbols of what they consider as having made it.

Let’s hear it for all the millions of those who have infested our domiciles of government like a bunch of lobbying maggots, peeling the last vestigial remnants of flesh from the bones of those who have sworn to represent the people of this country.

Let’s hear it for all the corrupt and compromised businesses and industries that have systematically destroyed our economy, our environment and our very way of life, by a greed that knows no limits, compromising standards that have been put in place to protect the consumers of this country.

Let’s hear it for the predatory lenders who have impaled students and all those trying to better themselves, by the mountains of debt that would put the loan sharks of yesteryear to shame.

Let’s hear it for all those who have enough to keep their heads above water, but show no compassion for those who don’t, complacent because they know they have theirs and don’t give a rat’s ass about all those who don’t.

Let’s hear it for all those who have worked to destroy the legitimate voices of the working people of this country by demonizing and criminalizing labor unions and citizens activists that have done so much to level the playing field between what is “fair and just,” vs. what is utterly obscene when it comes to profiting from the backs of all those who made their fortunes possible. (Waltons, Romneys, Kochs, Roves, Limbaughs, and all other human vermin, are you listening?)

Let’s hear it for all those who feed our fears in order to snooker us into pouring vast amounts of taxpayer money into defense, intelligence and all the hardware that goes with it, so they can become rich while struggling masses of good and decent people go without the necessities of life.

Let’s hear it for all those who have convinced themselves that they are good and righteous members of “God’s Army,” who ply their perverted beliefs against those they have deemed to be less than virtuous, and don’t know a damned thing about what real virtue and Christian charity means. (Tea Partiers, are you listening?)

Let’s hear it for all those who have “made it” at the expense of the thousands of our nations youngest and fittest because of “an all voluntary military,” while they live in opulent splendor fed by the blood, sweat and tears of all those who have returned in caskets or are permanently disabled or maimed and cannot get the care and help they so desperately need.

Let’s hear it for all the agents of government who have turned our prisons over to “private enterprise” creating gulags of over populated institutions for crimes that should never have put them there, all for the almighty buck because they have no souls and don’t give one hoot in hell about the human condition.

Let’s hear it for all the so-called “entrepreneurs” who are making millions of dollars off homes that have been repossessed from those who struggled to make their payments just to keep a roof over their heads, or to have a place of domicile in their later years.

Let’s hear it for all the abandoned cities, closed factories, and the other domiciles of what was once the means to an honest living and a healthy way of life, all systematically destroyed by the collusion of a government owned by big money, a political establishment that can never get enough, and a way of life that is no longer viewed as fertile ground for a new generation that can restore this country to the greatness it once knew.

Let us not delude ourselves one more moment. We are a nation of one, coherent and corrupt government. Any difference between what we call “Democrats” and “Republicans” is purely academic. They are beholden to the same masters that do whatever they want to do, at the expense of the greater population of this country, and do so without an ounce of shame. Until we have the will and the courage to take back the essence of what made us great, we will continue to languish and, ultimately, perish in our own feces. We need to open the doors to all political parties, not just the two incumbents. We need to make the process available to all who might just have a better take on how to restore our greatness, and the honesty and integrity to make it happen. There should be no imposed limit on the number or type. It should be us, the people who are rooted in the soil of what we once knew as the United States of America. We are the only ones who should make those decisions for ourselves; the politicians and all their minions be damned.

Otherwise, about all we can do is bend over, grab our ankles and wait for that long ago promised “change we can believe in!” At the end of the day, is that what we really want? I don’t think so. We do have choices if we will just relearn the skills of critical thinking, not just blind beliefs, and the attendant courage to make it happen – our way.

Cowboy Bob
The Sagebrush Philosopher
March 9, 2013