Dude, where's my country?
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. THEN THEY CAME for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." Martin Niemöller We are now 6 months out from the next election cycle. America will again look at itself in the mirror and maybe 30% of those eligible will actually vote. The vast majority of those will vote based on their fears and misconceptions, few will vote for a vision or a future. Negativism will overwhelm us as corporate money will flood the airwaves with messages by inauspicious sounding groups like "Citizens for a Clean America" funded quietly by the oil industry. If there should be any lesson learned from the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, it is just how much power corporate America an