Can you fucking hear us now?

[davidthegnome]

106. Not nearly as loud...

as we are going to be in the weeks and months - and years to come. They'll hear us, or lose all relevance. This is no longer a game only for the super rich, Sanders is demonstrating that... it may just be, that we Americans will once again show the strength of our spirit. A strength that, in our founding, saw us defeating the greatest military in the world, with half-trained militia and inferior weaponry. We won our independence from Britain long ago... but the time has finally come to win our independence from these oligarchs, these wealthy elite, these so called "upper class" citizens who have been running our Country right into the ground.

You know... "little things" (to them)... where is the infrastructure we once boasted of so proudly? Funding has been poor, there has been little to no ambition to take on the massive project of repairing it... and it was not kept up when it should have been. Public transportation... what happened to the Nation that built such massive railroads? Education... why is it that the system can provide billions of dollars for broken jets - lose billions of dollars in federal money without accounting for it... and provide congressional salaries even when those congressional idiots shut down our government... but, somehow, the system can't pay our teachers a fair wage, can't introduce programs and/or training that are required to face the ongoing autism crisis, or find valid ways to keep our children in education and out of prison?

Why is it, that people working forty, sixty, even eighty hours a week... can't afford to provide a reasonable living for themselves and their families? Why is it that so many of the hardest working people in this Country cry themselves to sleep at night because they can't see how they're going to make it? Education, transportation, healthcare, social safety... it is time for a democrat socialist, past time. I'll eagerly throw my lot in with Bernie and they can call me a "whacky socialist" too, don't give a damn what they call me, as long as we're getting things done.

For years, the middle class has been filling the holes left in our federal funding by the immense tax breaks for the super wealthy. For years, these super wealthy individuals have been influencing our politicians, who continue to support them and abandon those in their Country who most need their representation - the poor and middle class.

It's not all about money, it's about heart and soul. We're pissed off, we're sick of the same old greed and corruption... and we are going to take back our Country from the people who have stolen it. The years to come, I firmly believe, will show a revival of the American spirit of compassion, of the passion for freedom, for civil rights, for an end to the apathy and general fuckery that has dominated our politics for decades.

We're here, we're here in our numbers, we're loud - and we're not going to shut the hell up, not ever. This revolution isn't just about who becomes President, it's not just about Sanders, it's about making ourselves heard - at long last - and someone has finally come along to help us do that, to represent the true spirit in America.

I have not yet begun to shout.