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The Kenguru

July 21, 2015 - Transcripts

This is amazing, this is really amazing, we are coming up on the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act passed by the First George Bush and yet people who are in wheelchairs cannot gain easy access to an automobile and drive around and do their shopping and their chores but now it’s going to change; because of our guest Stacy Zoern the president and founder of the Kenguru and she joins us in Austin, Texas.

David Feldman: Stacy you didn’t invent the Kenguru, you discovered the Kenguru on the web. What you did is you contacted the person who designed and I believe he is in Hungary?

Stacy: Right

David Feldman: And the Kenguru is a small electric car that opens from the back. It has easy access for someone in a wheelchair to roll up through the trunk the front seat is the wheelchair. You close the trunk door and drive in an electric vehicle and you require nobody’s assistance.

Stacy: That’s correct , yeah

David Feldman: It’s been 25 years since we passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. Why are you selling this 25 years later, look why didn’t we start getting this in 1990?

Stacy: Well it’s a good question and it is a question a lot of people have but I think that in general , society tends to be kind of afraid of disability is something that scared the people that is unknown and it’s ignored often, you know it’s a niche portion of our society.

David Feldman: Right, let’s make sure our listeners find out about the, Kenguru , and go to kenguru.com to see the Kenguru in action. It’s a brilliant piece of machinery and when will it available for us to buy?

Stacy : Well production starts in the spring so we should have our first sales in hand vehicles on the road by next summer.

David Feldman: Describe for our listeners exactly how the kenguru works and why you should buy it , if you are in a wheelchair or you have a loved one who is in a wheelchair? Talk about the convenience of the Kenguru. Why this invention is so necessary and brilliant?

Stacy: While there is just so many needs for people that use power wheelchairs, it’s so much less expensive than the cost of buying a full sized van and modifying it. These are going to retail around $25,000.00. A lot of times vans that you drive are hundred thousand dollars. Just finally we have enough verbal option to drive than for people on their annual wheelchairs it’s great because you don’t have to injure your shoulders transferring into a car seat. It’s roll and go; it’s so quick , it’s easy you are not out in the rain and the snow and the cold the heat , you know you are protected, you get in quickly and you are off.

David Feldman: Right, and you are not depending on another person, I mean it’s always good we should all depend on each other , but this does give you independence;

Stacy: Absolutely in spontaneity which is just something a lot of people take for granted.

David Feldman:Spontaneity, yes you just decide you want to go for a drive , you just go , talk me through it step by step, you are in your living room , you are watching television , you say Oh my God , I want to go pick up a veggie burger at Burger King but the Burger King doesn’t sell veggie burgers in my neighborhood so I am going to drive up to Burger King and complain to Burger King that they don’t have the veggie burger , I am in a bad mood , I want to yell at Burger King and tell them that they need a veggie burger, talk me through it;

Stacy: Okay , so you grab your pod , you go out to your garage or your driveway wherever you have got your [indiscernible] [00:04:04] stored , you press a button , it was in second the back hatch was raised and the ramp has come down , so you roll right in, your chair locks in automatically again just you know a second or two, you press the button on your cell again , it closes and you press the button and start the engine and off you go.

David Feldman: I was just watching a documentary about Franklin Roosevelt who was a they call them polio’s back then he was a , he had polio and the greatest joys of his presidency driving a special car equipped for polio’s and it allowed him , I guess they had, on the steering wheel they had accelerators and brakes kind of like a bicycle. How do you accelerate.

Stacy: It’s exactly right, a small hand control , and it’s very cool as there is a lot of different driving technology out there for people to use with their hands , econo is different levels of strength and dexterity and we can implement a lot of different other , you know different steering uprights into our vehicle , including at some point in the near future a joy stick model which will allow people like myself that are very weak in their upper body to still drive;

David Feldman: You can then park the car right?

Stacy: correct

David Feldman: And how do you get out?

Stacy: Same thing you know , it’s within a minute you are out of the vehicle that is closed and you are where ever you are going , you know it’s a very small vehicle so it sits so easy and so fast and it’s adorable, it’s really a cute little car , you know if you are in a hurry. So yeah it’s real exited and the charge , you could charge it overnight and you can either plug it in your standard outlet or you can even have an upgrade on a wireless so that is even easier, that you know once you charge it , you know you are getting at least 50 miles .

Ralph Reed, Lobby Hobbyist

June 30, 2014 - The News From Around The World, Transcripts

The Supreme Court is about to hand down a ruling on whether the privately owned “Christian” company Hobby Lobby should be exempt from Obamacare’s mandate that employees provide contraception to their employees. Hobby Lobby lawyers tell the Supreme Court that providing contraception to employees goes against the company’s deeply held religious beliefs.

David Green who owns Hobby Lobby is worth more than $5 billion.

So, we wondered if Hobby Lobby’s “deeply held religious beliefs” also included providing paid maternity leave to its employees. After all, if you want your workers pregnant, certainly you’d be willing to join the rest of the industrialized world by paying for the mother’s eight or so weeks with her newborn. Certainly Hobby Lobby CEO and founder David Green, whose net worth is north of $5 billion, could afford to offer paid maternity leave.
Alas, Mr. Green’s Hobby Lobby doesn’t want to pay for maternity leave either. Here’s what we found from an anonymous Hobby Lobby employee who wrote four years ago…

Why does such a successful business not provide BETTER maternity leave for their employees? I’ve been with this company for almost 8 years and work myself to the bone … but yet I’ll have to take my vacation that I have worked so hard … in order to still be able to get paid when I do take maternity leave. .. I just feel that such a “Christian company” would look after their faithful employee’s a lot better. I don’t feel that I’m asking for much, but some payment for maternity leave is better than nothing if it means that it will keep food on the table. Thank you for your time.

During this week’s Working Families Summit, President Obama drew attention to our nation’s dismal record on providing for newborns and their mothers by telling his audience…

“There is only one developed country in the world that does not offer paid maternity leave, and that is us… And that is not the list you want to be on — on your lonesome. It’s time to change that.”

The Supreme Court will rule on Hobby Lobby any moment now. Corporations we are told are people, so we’d like to think a company WHO calls itself “Christian” would behave like a good Christian. A good Christian would worry about the health of a mother and her newborn by providing paid maternity leave, especially when you refuse to pay for her contraception.

Hobby Lobby refuses to pay for its employees contraception or maternity leave.

Which brings us to another Christian corporation Ralph Reed whose hobby as a lobbyist has earned him millions.

Ralph Reed is the Born Again Christian with a boyish face who just missed going to jail a few years back when investigations into Lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s Indian Casino scandal exposed Reed as an inveterate Washington insider whose lobbying efforts were just on the cusp of illegal, certainly they were deceitful

Reed got his start in the 80s as one of the prime shakers of the Christian Coalition breaking down the separation of Church and State. At this week’s Faith And Freedom Conference, Ralph Reed incited right wing domestic terrorism by promising to, and I quote “raze” the I.R.S. building in Washington D.C. He talked of “killing” the I.R.S. and leaving the IRS building “in rubble” as a “monument to future generations” about the importance of liberty.

Quick Fact: When asked if Jews should pay taxes Jesus said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” Jesus believed in paying taxes, but apparently Ralph Reed knows better than Jesus.

Ralph is all smiles, but underneath it all Reed is sending out a dog whistle telling his evangelical faithful to act against our government. Homeland Security should take note of this. And we should all remember Andrew Joseph Stack III, 53, of north Austin, Texas who flew his single-engine fixed-wing Piper PA-28-236 into an I.R.S. building in Austin, Texas killing himself as well as several other IRS employees back in February of 2010.

Ralph Reed smiles as he incites violence.

Stack left behind a screed attacking the IRS, especially the tax code, and said he had been left with no choice but to use his plane to set things right. This was an act of domestic terrorism, incited by right wing charlatans like Ralph Reed who demonize the I.R.S. to score political points and money.

Muslim leaders have been questioned by the FBI for suggesting far less. Flip the script: had Ralph Reed been a Muslim leader, not a Christian leader, he’d be put on a watch list and brought in for questioning. Instead Ralph Reed rakes in millions as a lobbyist wandering the very halls of congress he so wantonly incites his followers to attack.

Feeling Safe Also Means Safe From Our Police

June 28, 2014 - Transcripts, Uncategorized

Originally broadcast June 27, 2014

Given how inmates are abused in America, perhaps lethal injection isn’t so much cruel and unusual as it is a welcome relief from our prison system.

There’s a terrifying story in today’s Miami Herald detailing treatment of Florida’s psychiatric ward inmates. Yes, hard to believe but Florida does have psychiatrists.

Americans are comforted by leaders who insist this country does not torture. But the ACLU, Amnesty International and the American Council of Churches think otherwise, and are now demanding that President Obama’s Justice Department investigate the death, let’s call it murder, of a 50-year-old mentally ill prisoner named Darren Rainey.

Darren Rainey was serving two years for drug possession when he was murdered by Dade County Florida guards.

Witnesses inside Florida’s Dade Correctional Institution’s psychiatric ward told the Miami Herald that Darren Rainey, serving a two year sentence for drug possession, he was probably self medicating, was handcuffed for defecating in his cell, dragged to a stall where the shower was turned on and then Rainey was left screaming for several hours underneath a scalding spray of 180-degree water. The next day, Rainey was found with “chunks” of his skin peeled off. After he was taken to the hospital, nurses said his temperature was so high a thermometer could not measure it. He later died. Darren Rainey was a mentally ill black man serving a two-year sentence for narcotics possession.

Today’s Miami Herald story is a tough read with descriptions of floors soaked in urine, littered with human excrement, and prisoners forced to chow down food fortified with insect protein. This is the stuff of Third World nations, not the imperial powerhouse Americans fancy themselves to be as we expend billions overseas promoting our special brand of democracy. If this is what freedom looks like then let’s keep it for ourselves. Shall we?

And it looks like America is doing just that. Calls for military intervention in Iraq notwithstanding, President Obama is winding down much of our overseas adventurism forcing our military industrial complex to discover a new market, which turns out to be us, America.
More and more police departments are being fitted with all that military gear our soldiers no longer need as billions of dollars in military equipment is transferred from the pentagon to local law enforcement. That’s why every city these days has a SWAT team with enough tactical gear, including tanks, to topple a small country.

But SWAT teams look ridiculous busting down doors to serve a traffic summons, even though SWAT teams have been known to perform that civic duty. SWAT teams are all about looking…SWAT. Luckily local SWAT teams in search of a battle worthy of their equipment didn’t have to look much further than America’s war on drugs. The ACLU issued a report this week on “hyper aggressive” policing in America warning that local SWAT teams use all that new military equipment primarily to bust down doors searching for drugs, and rarely, if ever, use that military equipment for what Americans were promised it was to be used for: taking down snipers or freeing a hostage.

You’d think with all these school shootings our police would be less concerned about our children smoking pot and more about their smoking gun. If the police have nothing better to do than stop people from doing drugs maybe we should spend less money fitting them with military gear and more money on our schools, or, better yet, treatment on demand for drug addicts instead of locking them up to be tortured by Florida prison guards.

The war on drugs, like nearly all our wars, is based on a lie. And this week the argument for legalizing marijuana just got a whole lot stronger. According to a new report issued Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control, one in ten working Americans will die from excessive drinking this year. The CDC goes on to call alcohol abuse the fourth leading cause of preventable death. The cost to taxpayers comes out to roughly $223.5 billion a year. Yet our SWAT teams kick down doors looking for pot. I’m not suggesting pot is something people should smoke. I’m just saying it’s safe, and alcohol is not.

Fox News Anchor Gregg Jarrett in better times promoting a police state.

Just ask Fox News Anchor Gregg Jarrett who was recently arrested for being drunk inside a Minneapolis Airport, the very same airport Senator Larry Craig got pinched seven years ago for flirting with an undercover cop inside the men’s room. (Don’t our police have anything better to do these days?) Fox News Anchor Gregg Jarrett was drunk, disorderly and so he got a taste of the very police state he’s paid to promote.

When America officially becomes that police state, it will be due in no small measure to the tireless efforts of Fox News who every day works to scare Americans into believing somebody is trying to kill us: Blacks, Muslims, Mexicans, Gays. According to Fox News, everybody is trying to kill us except the people who actually have guns. So when Fox News Anchor Gregg Jarrett was waiting in his holding cell naturally he assumed cops worked with him. He was wrong, police work for the police, and they decided to kick his ass.

Frankly, they were a little rough on the guy even if he is a Fox News anchor. There’s a video of one of the cops kicking Jarrett’s privileged white male ass. Maybe that video will finally kick some sense into Jarrett and his right wing denizens who despise everything about our government except the cops. Because feeling safe also includes feeling safe from our police.

Dick Cheney Needs To Go Away

June 20, 2014 - Transcripts

Americans Surprisingly Supportive of Unemployment Insurance

Originally broadcast June 21, 2014

When Dick Cheney left office he wanted Iraq to go away. And now it is. Soon Iraq will be divided into three parts as thousands more die from Cheney’s blunder.

Dick and Liz Cheney, his snarling lapdog for a daughter, penned a piece in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. Their opening paragraph included these words about the calamitous situation in Iraq:

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

One would think that sentence was part of a larger mea culpa as Cheney, the de facto president between 2001-2009, finally took responsibility for the grievous injuries he inflicted on Iraq and our soldiers.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

It was Dick Cheney’s responsibility to organize a terrorism task force, which gathered only once and then again inside the White House bunker on 9/11.

Liz Cheney making the case for not trying daddy as a war criminal

Then Cheney failed to grab Bin Laden even though in late 2001 the CIA had him in their crosshairs at Tora Bora, but Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Cheney’s friend, wanted credit for the kill, so the CIA stood down.

Bin Laden got away as Cheney visited the CIA to cherry pick any evidence suggesting Iraq had WMDs even though the U.N., France, Germany, Great Britain and our own intelligence agencies said otherwise. Read the Downing Street memos. Tony Blair knew there were no WMDs, but he also knew if he went along on the ride into Baghdad there were lucrative post prime ministerial jobs waiting for him over at Cheney friendly establishments like the Carlyle Group.

Cheney bullied the CIA and Colin Powell into making the case for war as he toured the country convincing Americans that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 while feeding Judith Miller at the New York Times phony tales of Iraq being days away from dropping a nuclear bomb on us.

Cheney promised that Iraqis would greet us as liberators never grasping how much the Shiites and Sunnis despised each other and that while Hussein was evil he was at the same time keeping a tight lid on centuries of ethnic and religious hatred squeezed into a country created after World War One with geographic boundaries catering to the imperial needs of France and Great Britain and not the people who actually lived there, like Shiites and Sunnis. Iraq without Hussein was a tinderbox waiting to explode. But because Cheney flunked out of Yale he didn’t know that when you topple Iraq’s army you needed something to take its place.

Even Megyn Kelly isn’t buying it.

You don’t dismiss Saddam’s army because the last thing American troops wanted were hundreds of thousands of unemployed soldiers taking off their uniforms, keeping their weapons, and receding into the countryside to fight as insurgents. Maybe had Dick Cheney not taken 5,000 college deferments during Vietnam he would have learned that.

And so after Baghdad fell, Hussein’s disbanded army waged a guerrilla war against a very small American occupying force. Why so small? General Eric Shinseki warned Cheney before the invasion that America needed at least 500,000 soldiers to maintain security. Shinseki was immediately dismissed only to pop up later at Obama’s VA cleaning up the very mess he warned about.

When the Mission Accomplished sign came down and the insurgents rose up Cheney dismissed the Iraqi opposition as being in its “death throes.” Cheney’s war of choice dragged on with American soldiers dying because they didn’t have the proper equipment. Cheney fought Iraq on the cheap, with Humvees lacking the under armor plating that deflects the impact from a roadside bomb.

Cheney’s invasion of Iraq, without Iraq attacking or even threatening to attack America, is called a preventive war. Preventive war waged without the approval of the United Nations, which Cheney didn’t have, violates international law. Thus Dick Cheney is a war criminal.

Of course Dick Cheney isn’t America’s first war criminal. But Americans are a forgiving people, especially when their war criminals have a modicum of success. President Obama comes to mind. Americans will excuse illegal drone strikes when you’re killing Bin Laden and capturing the guy responsible for Benghazi.

Cheney took 5,000 college draft deferments during Vietnam.

But Dick Cheney failed at everything. There is not a single decision Dick Cheney can point to that he got right in Iraq. Even the surge he’s so proud of turned out to be smoke and mirrors having nothing to do with our military finally sending in more troops but more about our military handing over boatloads of cash to Sunni warlords so they would stop shooting at us.

Dick Cheney got nothing right. Yet in their Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal what president do he and Liz say was wrong on everything? Barack Obama. The president who, before coming to Washington, publicly opposed Cheney’s invasion of Iraq.

Cheney can’t admit he’s wrong, because to admit he’s wrong, to admit that he destroyed three countries, Iraq, Afghanistan and America is a burden too heavy to bare. Plus he’s a sociopath.

Cheney would rather spend time with his new heart fly fishing, but he is surrounded by three ambitious women, his wife Lynne and two daughters who are pushing him out there to defend his record because they know that if the lie isn’t repeated over and over he will go down in history as the worst U.S. president since Jefferson Davis. I know Jefferson Davis was the Confederate president, so technically he wasn’t really president. But technically Cheney wasn’t president either.

Cheney didn’t write that article for the Wall Street Journal, his daughter Liz did. Liz is building a business in Washington D.C. as a career lobbyist pushing right wing agendas and charging a lot of money for the wisdom she absorbed sitting at her father’s feet.

Liz Cheney is burnishing her father’s reputation because Liz Cheney doesn’t have one of her own. Her calling card is being Dick Cheney’s daughter. It’s not working. As Dick Cheney’s name becomes synonymous with failure, Liz Cheney is losing power, like a Baathist general who must now fight a desperate insurgency indiscriminately firing cheap shots at our president.

Liz Cheney calling Obama “a dangerous president who is intent on weakening America” is the act of a frantic daughter who can’t handle the brutal truth that the Cheney name shall never be rehabilitated. Because the name Cheney is forever tarnished and even Republicans wish, like Iraq, it would just go away.

Is Rick Perry Gay?

June 17, 2014 - Most Recent, Top Stories, Transcripts

Originally Broadcast June 17, 2014

Rick Perry, the longest serving governor in Texas history, is eyeing another presidential campaign through his new Warby Parker glasses that make him look even gayer than he sounds.

Rumors about Perry and his personal chef have hung around the governor’s collar for years like the proverbial pearl necklace. You’d have to be blind not to see that Perry has been resisting homosexual urges since his youth. Maybe he hasn’t acted upon them. Maybe he’s strong enough to resist. Maybe that’s why last week Rick Perry compared homosexuality to alcoholism. Maybe Rick Perry sees homosexuality as something to be battled one day at a time, like the urge to suck down a bottle of Jim Beam or just some guy named Jim.

Rick Perry’s comments about homosexuality are lethal. When young, impressionable men hear a governor talk about homosexuality as a choice, as an illness that can be cured, he is giving bullies license to pick on young gay men who often end up committing suicide. While Perry’s predecessor George W. Bush was a white knuckle drunk, Rick Perry is a red knuckle homosexual. Red knuckle homosexual because of all the blood on his hands from the gay men who get beaten up or kill themselves because of his vicious words cloaked in false scripture. More on this later but let me assure you Jesus despises Rick Perry.

So if there are any teenage boys listening right now, I want you to hear this. Homosexual sex is healthier than heterosexual sex especially when there are two men involved. Rick Perry is a very sick man. Alcoholism is a disease. Homosexuality is not. Alcoholism will destroy you. Homosexuality will destroy you only when you pretend you’re not a homosexual, the way Rick Perry does. Don’t listen to Rick Perry he is a very sick, dangerous and wicked man.

One day the truth about Rick Perry will come out, even though he won’t. But in the meantime understand that Rick Perry is insane. Hiding in the closet makes a man insane. It’s the kind of insanity that unfocuses the mind leaving that man incredibly stupid. It explains why Rick Perry is dumb, dumb as a rock that’s been spray painted with the words “Niggerhead Ranch.” That’s right, Rick Perry owned a spot called Niggerhead Ranch and he was too stupid to see how that might be offensive.

During a presidential debate in 2012 Perry tried to list the three federal agencies he would eliminate. But then suddenly he forgot which ones, turned to the moderator, shrugged and said, “Oops.” The only person who doesn’t remember that epic meltdown is Rick Perry because he’s an idiot.
There was a time when that depth of stupidity, when looking into a camera and saying “Oops” heralded the end of a man’s political career. But we’re talking about the GOP where intelligence is a liability where “Oops” is how that other idiot Texas Governor explained away 9/11, Katrina, Iraq and the greatest economic meltdown since the Great Depression. Oops.

During yesterday’s interview with CNBC, Perry was asked whether homosexuality could be cured, to which Perry responded that’s for psychologists to decide. When the interviewer informed him that psychologists have already decided that homosexuality can’t be cured, especially since it’s not a disease Perry changed the subject still insisting he wasn’t a psychologist.

That’s the new Republican jujitsu move to deflect attention away from their insanity. Is Climate Change man made Speaker Boehner? How the hell should I know I’m not a climate scientist. If 99.9999 percent of climate scientists believe something then does that make it true? How the hell do I know I’m not a mathematician.

Try this, it works for everything. O.J. Did you murder your wife? How the hell would I know I’m not a detective.
Governor Perry was once asked if he believed capitol punishment reduced crime. He said he did believe that. When told there was not a single study to prove capitol punishment eliminated crime, Perry said, “Well I just believe it does.”

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice and George Bush have all finally admitted that we never found WMDs in Iraq, and that Saddam Hussein had nothing to with 911. But that doesn’t stop publications like the Weekly Standard from insisting there were WMDs and Hussein did have something to do with 911. “Sorry, I just believe there were WMDs and Hussein was behind 911. Let’s just agree to disagree.” How about we just agree that you’re ignorant, insane, and a danger to the community.

Texas is going through its worst drought ever. In 2011 Governor Perry said it had nothing to do with the climate change caused by all those oil wells he’s drilling. Perry insisted Texans just weren’t praying hard enough, that’s why it wouldn’t rain. So he held a prayer rally at Reliant Stadium asking Jesus to make it rain. The drought got even worse and the Texas drought continues because Jesus doesn’t listen to you Governor Perry because you sicken him.

The Best Way To Remember Your Father Is By Voting

June 16, 2014 - The News From Around The World, Transcripts

Originally broadcast June 16, 2014.

Yesterday was Father’s Day which CNN, the most trusted name in news, celebrated by running a tribute to the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. I’m sure there was a lot of crying because the Bush family always seems to get choked up whenever they talk about Poppy, and Poppy always seems to start crying whenever he talks about himself. I’m not sure how 41 ended up with the nickname Poppy. I think it has something to do with America dipping its beak into the heroin trade back when Poppy was running the CIA.

No, I couldn’t watch CNN because I was too busy keeping my misty eyes on Iraq, a country that appears to be unraveling all because back in 2000 former Spymaster George Herbert Walker Bush insisted on keeping a secret from the American people, that secret being his son George is a vicious moron.

George Herbert Walker Bush gets a medal even though he neglected to inform the American voters that his eldest son is a vicious moron.

I never once saw my father cry. My father came from the kind of poverty where nobody was going to comfort you no matter how loud you wept. Not that there’s anything wrong with grown men crying. But my father didn’t cry because he knew nobody would help. It’s different for a Bush. They get help from everybody, even the Supreme Court when they lose an election. I think even my father would have cried after that decision.

My father served in the Pacific around the same time President George W. Bush’s father served over there. My father didn’t live long enough to see W lose the popular vote and then have the Supreme Court hand him our nuclear launch codes anyway. Looking at Iraq come undone I know my father would tell George Herbert Walker Bush, “My eldest son is an idiot too. It’s good to encourage idiots, but you don’t let them play with dangerous toys, like our U.S. military.” Then my dad would have spat in George Herbert Walker’s face and called his entire family a tribe of money-grubbing whores. Because that’s how much dad loved America. My father loved this country. He never had to say that. You just knew by his visceral contempt for Reagan, Bush Senior and all those other charlatans who rely on false patriotism to steal from Americans.

The millions of dead Iraqis are the Bush family’s fault. They lied us into war. Had Americans known the truth, we never would have agreed to that illegal invasion. Unlike the Bush family, at our core Americans are a good and decent people. Which is why Gore won in 2000. America is much bigger than the noisemakers and the guns we fire overseas or at each other. Americans may differ on the nuance, but we all agree it should be hard to get a gun, harder to declare war, nobody disagrees that Big Banks are evil, that Main Street is superior to Wall Street, that politics needs to be shorn of money, that everyone is entitled to affordable healthcare and that anyone who works an eight hour day shouldn’t be broke. We all agree on that. We’re a good people. But we’re drowned out by Big Money.

If everyone who is registered to vote voted, all our problems would be solved. Read the polls, we’re a good people. Americans support, for the most part, all the right things. We just need to vote in numbers that drown out Big Money. Vote. How hard can it be? It’s not like we’re being asked to serve in the Pacific. Imagine if we all voted. Three years from now CNN would have to air a Mothers Day tribute to President Elizabeth Warren. And who knows? Maybe we can finally elect a congress willing to put George W. Bush on trial for Iraq.

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