So it turns out the hippies were right about just about everything...

...well that might be just a wee bit of an overstatement but I am intentionally hyperbolizing here. And I'm not really just talking about "the Hippies" in any official monolithic sense but rather those who by choice or otherwise have given voice to opposition to the PR hoodwinking voice of the mainstream: media, junk culture, chamber of commerce cheerleading for the beneficiaries of how the economy does or doesn't function. And of course that means in large part the overbearing industrial economy most extremely illustrated by the merger of Big G'uvment, Big Military, and of course- Big Corporation. It has been a menage a trois made far from heaven but that in general operates falsely as if it is indeed all things God and Country. When of course the results of its inevitable agenda (unless We the people insist it be stopped- and we haven't been able to do so effectively yet) have little to do with the best interests of most of the people, communities, ecosystems, critters- not to mention the very Democratic ideals, institutions, and potential of these United States of America.

Those of us who have bothered to notice this reality have got to find a better path to create a different destination to the one the fundamentalist business right neocon coalition have us railroaded toward. It's not to late- but hey, time is of the essence.

Obama's window of opportunity along with the hope and possibility his ascendancy on the political landscape has catalyzed will wisp away quickly if his being head of the Executive Branch of mainstream government (that is way too far right of center- so much so it makes my head spin- with apologies to old Nixon cronie John Mitchell) is allowed to gridlock its way to stagnation while being challenged too meekly by Obama. If he doesn't use his 12 or 13 million member mailing lists effectively to help him really deliver the truly significant liberal, progressive, radical- whatever you want to call it- change that he was elected to bring about then he will be abandoned to the apathy and genuine lack of political will and informed outrage that really seem to be the keys to the status quo of the last 40-70 years being able to run roughshod over the basic quality of life realities and opportunity structures of a huge and growing segment of the American people.

To help make sure that doesn't happen We the people... of the progressive radical creative and working class left need to build our own social network of lists and operatives both large scale and individual to help the President not get to comfy with the notion that him making it to the mountaintop is enough. He needs to lead us to the promised land of a more just, fair, egalitarian, and civil society. We need a more Democratic divvying up of the opportunity, wealth and power that our Nation and Economy can create.