Running Out of Canaries

Another canary in the dark hole of democracy died yesterday in the state of Wisconsin. How many more will have to die before Americans wake up to the deadly scent of the poisonous billionaires who have bought the government of “we the people”?

Too many Americans have failed in being responsible citizens of a nation once thought to be a beacon of hope and freedom. Too many citizens have allowed the propaganda machines of both the left and right to make decisions for them. Too many are too lazy, too apathetic or too discouraged to make informed decisions based on their own study of issues. Studies that go beyond the 30 second to minute sound bites of the ads paid for by shadow groups unwilling to even identify themselves.

Why should we accept the information of groups unwilling to reveal who they are and who their members are? Is this the government a free people should accept? A government bought by shadowy individuals and groups with the desire to control all segments of government for their own greedy needs?

Too many Americans are willing to let others decide their fate and the fate of their children. They’re unwilling to be responsible enough to be informed, to seek the real truth and to stand up to the bastards attempting to shackle them in debt and oppressive laws meant to protect only the rich.

Too many are willing to bitch about conditions that adversely affect them but won’t do something other than cast a ballot for politicians already sold out to the millionaires and billionaires. Too many buy into the idea they can become a millionaire or billionaire if only the government is dismantled and everything turned over to the private sector. This is called an oligarchy or fascist state in other parts of the globe.

Too many Americans cower in fear that an outside enemy will take away their freedom and fail to see it is the government of the rich they should fear most. Too many worry about the phony threat of gay marriages. Too many allow religious hysterics and fanatics to control their lives and fail to actually study and understand the ideology of Christ, Allah and others they claim to believe in.

Too many Americans have abdicated citizenship to liars and traitors only interested it gutting this nation’s resources, enslaving its workforce and moving on to the next conquest. They figure once the American people are under control, the rest of the world will soon follow. Americans like to believe they are the greatest nation on Earth but they gave up that recognition by constantly using wars and coercion to get their way.

Too many Americans blame the fall and decline of this nation on other people or institutions. We all need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves how much we’ve done to ensure our children and grandchildren remain free people.  We need to ask if we challenged those who attempt to steal their freedom or if we sat on our asses watching Dancing With The Stars or some other inane and mind numbing television program.

We have to ask ourselves how many more warnings will there be?  How many canaries in the toxic remains of democracy will die in order to warn us of the impending poison created by billionaires who could care less about “we the people” or freedom?