t’s not about you. It’s not about me. -- Had enough hope yet?

Had enough waiting, praying, expecting, wishing you actually believed it but pretending you just might, anticipating the let-down, taking in the impact of disappointment, betrayal, humiliation, and powerlessness, and finally, time after time, smashing your forehead into a concrete wall that had always been standing there as big as day?
Had enough of a steadily growing military, more wars than ever before, assassination as an instrument of national policy, the stripping away of civil liberties, and nothing to show for it but a prize that Henry Kissinger got too?
Had enough of the steady transfer of wealth to the 400 billionaires who already have as much as half of us, while poverty wages, unemployment, foreclosures, lack of healthcare, homelessness, incarceration, and suicides increase right alongside inequality, and nothing to show for it but a president who looks different and talks better?
Had enough of the relentless devastation of our natural environment, while the coal, oil, nukes, and gas profiteers monopolize the representation of our misrepresentatives, and the best we can do is a promise to put token solar panels on the White House, and a broken promise at that?

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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/27/stop-hoping-start-changing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-hoping-start-changing

Hi Suse, that's for you !