- This is a Big Time for America. It's not just another
election, not merely about a list of issues - even though some of those
issues are huge, including the deliberate downsizing of our middle class
and the deadly war of lies in Iraq.
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- What's at stake on November 2nd is the very idea of America
itself the historic idea that we might actually build a society based
on our egalitarian ideals of economic fairness, social justice, and equal
opportunity for all.
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- The moneyed elites - presently working through BushCheneyAshcroftRumsfeld
& Company - have decided that America should no longer bother pursuing
egalitarianism. They are asserting a new ethic of privilege, declaring
that the role of government is to take care of the good fortunes of the
few...and not worry about the well-being of the many. In their view, they're
the top dogs and the rest of us are just a bunch of fire hydrants.
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- Wielding their administrative blow-torches and legislative
monkey-wrenches, they are jerry-rigging America's rules so that money and
power flow uphill, out of our neighborhoods into their corporate suites
and offshore bank accounts. They're seizing control of every decision that
affects our lives - from wages to taxation, from what's in your dinner
to what's in your daily news feed, from who goes to college to who goes
to war.
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- They're turning our America - our democracy - into their
America of plutocracy and autocracy.
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- As I travel around the country, I find that most people
are aware that something fundamental has gone wrong, that this is not the
America they thought they were born into. I recently saw an old pickup
truck with a bumpersticker that asked: "Where are we going? And what
am I doing in this handbasket?" People know that we're being led down
some rabbit trail, off of America's true path toward egalitarianism.
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- I believe we're in another one of those "When-in-the-course-of-human-events"
moments that Jefferson wrote about. It's a Big Time for America - time
to take our country back.
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- Jim Hightower Hightower & Associates 1802 W. 6th
Street Austin, TX 78703 512-477-5588 info@jimhightower.com
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