Some thoughts on the Blue Wave... It's just the first Battle...

In a little over a month from today voters in the U.S. will be casting their votes in the most important election in the last 50 years, if not in the history of this country. As progressives we are going to be deciding the course of our political destiny. Do we want a country that works for all Americans regardless of their wealth or a country that works for just the rich?

Since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 this country has moved politically to cater to the whims and wishes of Businesses, The Rich and The Well Connected. Taxes have been cut to the bone for those who can donate (Bribe) their Congressional representatives to slash their taxes, deregulate their industries, and subsidize their already obscenely profitable Corporations. They've hacked and slashed away the rules that protect clean air, water and land. They've taken over governmental institutions that are meant to protect the workers from harsh and often dangerous working conditions, stop predatory lenders, stop polluters, prosecute criminals who crashed the economy, and skirt the laws meant to protect us all from their greed.

It's taken them nearly 50 years to get us to the point that they managed to elect the most unqualified candidate in the history of America. A man with no morals, no self awareness and no intellectual curiosity. Someone who spent his whole life stealing, grifting and cheating his way to the top.

The Blue Wave is coming, but this will not be a one and done electoral wave. The rot and disease of the GOP can not be washed out in just one election cycle. This will be have to be a sustained and unwavering battle to stamp out the influence and rot of the GOP. We must not think of this one election as winning the war, this is just one battle. It's a big battle, make no mistake, but the GOP is as vile and vicious as the undead in any zombie movie. They will attempt to rise to power again and we must keep them down. We must make sure to bury them politically each and every time they try to crawl from their electoral graves we kick them into.

In November vote... and vote in the next election, and the next and the next. We must send a resounding and clear message that their corruption and greed will not be tolerated any longer in America. We must make the message clear that we will create a Government that works for ALL Americans, not just the rich and influential. We must make it clear by voting that they work FOR US, not them.