The Hubris of the American Aristocracy

The presumptions and insouciant arrogance of the political conservatives of America is nothing short of dumbfounding, We are talking now about a degree of self-arrogation that has achieved true hubris. They actually believe they can rewrite Western Civilization. They mistake the middle and working classes for having a short memory, they we have already been conditioned to accept serfdom. They forget that we all can look back on over seven hundred years of steady progress since the Black Plague failed to subdue the human spirit, and that we can all appreciate the past over two hundred years of democratic and economic progress of relentless, broadening social enfranchisement. There is no turning back for our psyches. You can create the most desperate economic situations using the slave labor of Asia, but we will not let go of our sense that we are entitled as members of a democracy to decent employment and human welfare. You can turn a state like Wisconsin into an autocracy and fire our legally elected officials and replace them with gubernatorially-appointed flunkies, and we will not fail to forget that the Constitution says we are entitled to a democracy. You can try to subvert popular sovereignty, and we will not forget that you transgress gravely upon the very fundamental reasons the United States of America was created in the first place. The rich are not entitled to trounce on the liberties and political participation of the common people. We have not forgotten our inalienable rights, and we know you are violating our Constitution. We know you are making our Founding Fathers roll in their graves, and we know you will pay for your transgressions. You bring suffering to us, curtailment of our freedoms and ability to participate in the economy of life. This goes against the basic principles of ethical society, and for those of us of religious belief, we see it as against the Will of God. You are cynical, and firm in your silent belief that you may do as you will without fear of Divine retaliation, or that we will meekly submit to your re-establishment of the bane of Modernity: serfdom for those you deem not as fully human as yourselves. Shame on you! How could you do this to a country that once gave hope and inspiration to the world?!  Shame on you for not being content with already an embarrassment of wealth and influence. Have you no conscience? Are you a class of sociopaths? Have you no imagination of what good your wealth could do for human civilization? If you would but constructively share but a fraction of it for the enrichment and rebuilding our once great society, what wonders might be wrought! Was it merely the Cold War that kept you within the moral fold? Now that there is no Soviet Threat. you sell us all like slaves down the river, because there is no more a powerful rival to shame you for your ill treatment of your own nation. China you have befriended as though they were the most venerable capitalists, but the affinity is nothing to do with Communist China discovering the virtues of capitalism. You are autocratic in will, and China has mastered autocracy to the most methodical degree. You are natural allies against true democracy. The challenge of the future is awesome enough with Climate Change threatening to turn our Earth into another planet Mars, and yet you set your most energetic will upon the destruction of democracy. Democracy is the one political mechanism that has any hope of solving the survival of our human species and the other biological organisms we seem so reluctant to admit we depend upon for our survival. If you do succeed in destroying our democracy in all but name, you will have also demolished the fine instrument our wise Founding Fathers created that might have saved us from this pressing ecological dilemma. If the ideology of greed triumphs, our species, both rich and poor, will find itself buried in a mass grave created by the cumulative blowing dust of Time, rather than the pitying hand of a human (and humane) gravedigger.