Outraged

There's so much to be outraged about that I don't even know where to start. Just a few that come immediately to mind are:  GMO's, war, poverty, NSA, every GOP presidential candidate, dysfunction in our Congress, 47 traitors letter to Iran, Donald Trump's comment about Hillary, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell's refusal to bring the Loretta Lynch nomination to a vote. All of these have generated some form of meme and post on Facebook, Twitter, G+, and other forms of social media.

We are getting pretty good at it. We get outraged, write a blog, find a meme, post it all over the social media scene and then move on to the next outrage. Sometimes, I think this is how we are kept busy so that we don't really pay attention to how the powers behind the scenes are steal our country away from us. Gradually, they are getting their agenda passed in our schools, our counties, our states and at the national level. Who are these powers behind the curtain? They are the "soulless ones" who live for one goal above all-PROFIT. Whatever increases profit is good. Anything that decreases profit is bad. All decisions rest on that basis.

Long before the Citizens United vs. FEC decision, the plan was unfolding to turn our country over to corporations. Corporations run the military industrial complex and now they own many in our Congress and statehouses. Profit is the prime objective. Privatize schools, Social Security, Medicare, etc. De-regulate corporations so they can increase PROFIT.

Will we continue in our outrage over a myriad of issues or will we unite to fight back against the forces that seek to turn our democracy into a corporatocracy? An Alternet article by Bruce E. Levine challenges us to fight back. http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-ways-fight-corporatocracy Check it out.  I'll leave you with a quote from it, "The elite spend their lives stockpiling money and have the financial clout to bribe, divide and conquer the rest of us. The only way to overcome the power of money is with the power of courage and solidarity."