The restoration of hope.
The neoconservative siderodromophobic friends of Scott Walker have a
habit of repeating false messages so often that many are bound to think
them the truth. It does not matter how absurd the concepts, they just
stay on message. Intellectuals may debate whether they learned this
modus operandi from Richard Bruce Cheney or the Appendix to 1984.
They constantly repeat the mantra that government work programs don’t
work. They want to undo every government program back through the new
deal and beyond to the progressive era. Their form of economic
stimulation is to return America to the Laissez-faire economics of the
Gilded Era. The only elements they like in government are the elements
of authoritarian repression packaged as public safety. “Cut Transit and
Parks, and give us more sheriffs!”
In extremity they offer us a horrendous vision of America. Large
monopolies ride roughshod over the working people, while their
political allies, paid off by large campaign donations and hidden
favors, use the police and intelligence agencies to suppress political
organization and discourse. The disenfranchised are isolated in ghettos
far from the view of the shrinking middle class or sent to privately
operated prison complexes. The media is controlled by a few large
multinational corporations. The Internet is choked off by a
telephone/cable duopoly.
They offer us a sprawling, congested, pollution choked, oppressive
legacy to gift to our children. A hopeless dystopia, hardly
democratic-republican or libertarian (spelled in the lower case) nor
(spelled in the lower case) liberal or conservative.
We can avoid the nightmare if we wake up from our slumber; “We The
People” can take control. We have this contract called the
“Constitution of The United States” which grants us rights. Some of us
have even sworn to defend and protect it. We need only think, act, and
vote.
We can enact campaign reform. We can enforce the Clayton Anti Trust
Act. We can remove the antitrust exemption for telecommunications
companies. We can break the big abusive corporations in to little
pieces and restore real competition and real free markets. We can use
government, not as an enforcer, such as in a police state, but as an
educator, developer and a regulator that prevents free market
capitalism from devolving into an oppressive oligopoly. We can do as
our progressive forbears did in the great depression and work-to-train
those groups in our society who have worse than depression style
unemployment levels.
Some elements take national action, some elements take state action,
some elements take local action. We can take the first steps away from
the horrendous vision and restore hope, here and now, with local action.
We can harness Milwaukee County’s underutilized work force by building
new, carbon neutral, transportation systems and ecologically
sustainable industries. We can harness the entrepreneurial spirit of
the community by bringing business acumen and access-to-capital to the
next generation of Milwaukee County business leaders. We can empower
our communities and ourselves. This is the restoration of hope.
Come and join my quixotic crusade.
Come work with me; Labor Union members, Democrats, Greens,
Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Conservationists, and progressive
Republicans. I ask the help of all you good people who care about
Milwaukee County; Wisconsin; and the United States to join me in
tilting at windmills ... and perhaps, eventually building them.
It is time to restore hope.
--
Joe Klein
Candidate for Milwaukee County Executive
http://www.joeklein.org
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