"Will you raise taxes on the rich?"
As primary season looms on the horizon, I firmly believe we - economic egalitarians - must become single issue voters. We must take a page from Wayne B. Wheeler and force a realignment of the Democratic Party.
Our scattered approach has proved a failure. We cannot be advocates for everything, because we have seen we get nothing. No social justice, no environmental justice, no peace, no prosperity, no growth, no nothing.
And my rants, laced with beautiful profanity and aching integrity, won't do a bit of fucking good.
So, to turn this rotting ship, we must boil down our cause down to one, simple, straightforward question which nothing but a simple answer will satisfy: "Will you raise taxes on the Rich?"
Any Dem who hems, haws, ifs, ands, buts, or tries to define their way around this simple question must be tossed out.
Any Dem.
The question should be posed to every Republican, too. Force them onto the record saying, "No, I won't." That's some great shit right there for a commercial.
But the GOP is a lost cause, buying in wholesale to the 1Percenter cult.
We still have a chance to take back the Democratic Party, however.
"Will you raise taxes on the Rich?"
Our problems are not inequality, pollution, over-crowded prisons, overwhelmed public education, or unemployment. THOSE ARE SYMPTOMS
Our problem, singular, is an elite 1Percenter class that has decided to make sport of the rest of us 99Percenters. The fuck with us for whimsy. And we have one retaliatory weapon in our civilized arsenal: taxation.
All of the symptoms that plague us right now are addressable if we break the stranglehold of the 1Percenter class on the terms of our societal debates. The gossip-wars are easy distraction, foisted by media owned wholly by the 1Percenter class.
Put the 1Percenters on the defensive, force them to scream wide-eyed that THEY MUST KEEP MORE OF THEIR INCREASINGLY GLUTTONOUS PIE SLICE and they make mokery of their own failed ideology.
"Will you raise taxes on the Rich?"
No? Then I will raise funds for your primary challenger.
And fuck you sideways.