ALEC - What's Your Breaking Point, People?

This morning driving in to work I heard a repeat of a Democracy Now broadcast - an interview with Ralph Nader where he pointed out:

So we’ve got a real problem here. It’s not too extreme to call our system of government now "American fascism." It’s the control of government by big business, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt defined in 1938 as fascism. And they control the government and turn the government to their favor—subsidies, handouts, giveaways, deferred prosecutions, non-prosecutions—and against the American people. And minimum wage is just one. You have full Medicare for all, which a majority of doctors and the American people want, with free choice of doctor and hospital. That’s the only—we’re the only Western country that doesn’t have it. Eight hundred Americans a week die because they cannot afford diagnosis and treatment for their ailments. That’s 800 Americans a week, 45,000 a year. Who says so? A study, peer-reviewed, out of Harvard Medical School. So, we have the lowest minimum wage in the Western world. We have the greatest amount of consumer debt. We have the highest child poverty, the highest adult poverty, huge underemployment, a crumbling public works—but huge multi-billionaires and hugely profitable corporations.

I say to the American people: What’s your breaking point? When are you going to stop making excuses for yourself? When are you going to stop exaggerating these powers when you know you have the power in this country if you organize it?

Then less than an hour later I read that Missouri voters sent another ALECer to Congress yesterday in a special election.

State Rep. Jason Smith (R) easily won Missouri’s 8th district special election Tuesday, outpacing three other candidates in a heavily conservative district.

With 78 percent of the vote counted, the Associated Press called the race for Smith, who was leading Democratic nominee Steve Hodges 68 percent to 27 percent.

In addition to being one of the youngest members of Congress (he’s 32 years old), Jason Smith is Missouri’s state Chairman for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Fascism - being expanded one vote at a time.

I say to the American people: What’s your breaking point? When are you going to stop making excuses for yourself?

With that in mind I re-post an entry from a couple a months ago.
A post that is just as important today as it was then -a nd in a few weeks, it will be too late, to be important.