Maybe It's Time. . .

That Action Is Called For, More So Each Day, As Talk Isn't Cutting It. . .
by The Old Hippie Because Talking About It Is Failing

Seymour Hersh was right when he said, "The problem is that George Bush is convinced he's doing the right thing."  It doesn't matter how many body bags come back.  At some level he thinks

he'll be vindicated.  It doesn't matter what we write, we can't shape [Bush].  If you think it's a little terrifying, it is.  Other [presidents] felt the heat, this guy doesn't." Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman are also correct in their recent posting of "A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action" - "We know this may sound strange coming from two writers who spend most of their time researching and writing and contributing to the flood. [of political analysis]

But someone has to come up for air and scream:  It's not making any difference!"

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So I'm not alone in my realization of talking about it is not cutting it.  I'm seeing more and more calls for open and sustained action/revolt/revolution, rather than words, from more and more people/sites/opinions/analysis, and coming from "rationals," not just the more usual "radicals."  e.g. Seymour Hersh, Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Howard Zinn, Thom Hartmann, me, William Rivers Pitt, Molly Ivins, Amy Goodman, Howard Dean, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and many others, all joining the call for action, sooner, than later, every day. . .

It has gotten this bad.  The anger, and the anger of the frustration, has finally reached this tipping point of realization - The American Constitutional Democracy is not "being" destroyed from within, not "could be," or "might be," or "possibly will," but rather "Has Been."  America is now a one-party-ruled Plutocracy of an enhanced Theocratically Corporatist Fascist government, with openly arrogant Totalitarian safeguards being added on a daily basis, to protect "their freedoms" - from us.  From us.  Not the "terrorists."

They are still getting away with all of it, they sneer and smirk at all of us, as they continue to pocket incomprehensible wealth, stolen from all of us "fodder units" in the lower 98%.  They are so successful that approximately 47% of "us" are actually helping them, because in their, manufactured and promoted, ignorance, they "know" Christ is coming, and they "know" he will pick them.  And our own president is one of them.  (Whether it's a crafty lie, or an insane delusion. . .  Does it make any real difference?)

We reality-based Americans have simply let/allowed this insanity to go on - way too far.

The time for talk is over.