It’s time we
talked about the real problem in our country—rich old white men (or just rich
white men, if you prefer) running things. They’re why it gets harder each
passing year for the rest of us to hang onto nice things.
The current
administration is Republican: the House,
the Senate, the Presidency and the Supreme Court of the United States, though
not technically political, now has a conservative majority. The Republican
Party is now in complete charge of our form of government. It seems like this
should be a success story. Instead it has been chaos. And it’s getting worse.
Who caused the most recent economic collapse?
Rich old white men.
Who caused previous economic collapses?
Rich old white men.
Who runs most corporations?
Rich old white men.
Who sent most of our jobs to foreign nations?
Rich old white men.
Who continues to send our jobs to foreign nations?
Mostly rich old white men.
Who imports the most foreign goods?
Predominantly rich old white men.
Who is governing our country?
Predominantly rich old white men.
Who is running the Republican Party?
Predominantly rich old white men.
Who is running the Democratic Party?
Predominantly rich old white men.
Who controls agriculture?
Predominantly rich old white men.
Who controls energy?
Predominantly rich old white men.
And then what
happened? In order to fix problems caused by rich old white men white people
turned out like never before and elected a really rich old white man to be
President. To top things off this is a man that talked about the fun of
assaulting women sexually and confessed to walking in on naked teenagers in his
beauty pageant. I’m not sure if this qualifies him as being a pervert or just a
run of the mill voyeur. I’ll give him this: he has taken sexual improprieties
committed by Presidents to a whole new level. It’s a distinction that our
nation could have done without.
He in turn
appointed more rich old white men. (To be fair there is a rich old white woman
or two that were appointed along with a person of color but I think that he’s
just playing at being rich.)
Who is
currently condemning tens of thousands to death by making health insurance
unavailable to them?
Who is
pandering to their wealthy white friends by providing a trillion and a half
deficit just to give the rich white men a tax break?
Who is after
Medicare and social security?
Is there a
pattern here?
Seriously.
Think about it.
While I
acknowledge that blaming rich white men is pretty simplistic it’s a
consideration that we need to take into account if we’re going to get the
nation on a better track. Make that back on the rails since we currently seem
to be completely off the track. I understand that there are women and people of
color involved in what’s going on in Congress as well. But more than half of
Congress are now millionaires and there are plenty of multimillionaires. I
think that perhaps we should consider a different approach if we want to stop
the decline of our nation.
I have a
suggestion. Let’s elect some women. Start out with white ones if necessary so
it isn’t too much of a shock and then work up to brown and other colors.