Say it with Me

27Nov11

Imagine for a moment the Republican Party were truly imploding. Imagine the financial collapse of the country were linked in people’s minds to the millionaires who have become billionaires while so many Americans have either lost their jobs or had to absorb the work of those lost jobs (and work twice as hard). Imagine the Republicans’ refusal to tax those millionaires and billionaires was linked to them answering to those millionaires and billionaires.

Just let yourself imagine that the Tea Party had pulled the Republican Party so far to the right with their lunatic candidates and complete obstructionism of any sort of possibility for bipartisan productivity, that frustrated centrist Republicans and Independents began to peel away from the Republican Party. Imagine that their recent claims that waterboarding is not torture, their recent efforts to eliminate worker’s rights, their assault on birth control and women’s rights, all that was beginning to erode their support in the center.

Wouldn’t that implosion manifest itself with a ridiculous slate of cartoonish candidates?

Imagine things had gotten so bad that the populace began to awaken and question the power structure, the financial assumptions of Wall Street and the mainstream media. Imagine people began to stand up and express their outrage, to expose this power structure by confronting it, by taking it in the eye with pepper spray. Imagine people began to feel the stirrings of activism, perhaps transferring their money from the big banks, perhaps starting to feel a little more comfortable with the words, “Tax the rich.” Imagine if people began to demand not only millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share, but also oil and internet companies.

Let yourself experience for an hour, a day, or even a season, a tiny glimmer of hope.

Imagine a tipping of the balance. (We’ll talk about the Democrats later.)

Begin with the words, “The Republican Party is imploding.”

Say it.

Believe it.

Make it happen.

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