"Dear American conservative; you've been had"
You've been duped into believing that corporations deserve to control the country, that the wealthy are more qualified to act in your interests, that the essential conflicts in politics are centered around abortion rights, gun laws and religious issues.
Meanwhile, the ultra wealthy have stolen not only your prosperity, but the wealth of your grandchildren.
Instead of building a stronger country, they've built stronger rights for their corporations, which they've used to impoverish you, take your jobs, ruin your educational system, and build a military that murders millions during a time of peace in your name.
You've every right to be frustrated with your ever shrinking standard of living. But have the prescriptions advanced by your representatives improved your lives? They've had 40 years since Mr Reagan was elected, one would expect that if they were going to work to build American prosperity, they'd have done it by now.
Instead, we've gotten a ballooning deficit, the greatest national debt in the history of civilisation, a homeless population larger than seen in the Dust Bowl years, millions in prison, and wars of opportunism and profit rather than for protection or peace.
The rich have gained unimaginable wealth and power- and far from being in a mood to share, they blame you for your poverty while shipping your jobs overseas and passing more tax cuts for themselves.
Now, they've come for your health insurance. Your very life expectancy has fallen for the first time in our nation's history, and those who've seen it fall the most are the most stanchly conservative districts in the country. THIS is how they've repaid you for your loyalty.
Maybe it's time to try something different. Perhaps it's time to consider the idea that the wealthy are out for themselves, even at your expense. When the banks were bailed out after the 2008 economic crash, did you get your house back? Your job? Your old standard of living? So why does the television say we've been out of recession for years now?
Because you don't count anymore. All of you put together, the entire American working and middle class makes less than half the income earned, yet you pay far more than half the taxes. The rich have taken most of the income for themselves, sloughed off the tax bill onto you- and your children- and taken nearly all the wealth of the nation for themselves.
None of this is your fault. You've been fooled; by Bill O'Reilly, by Rush Limbaugh, by a succession of Presidents from Reagan to Trump. Even the Democrats have taken the money and are in on the game.
It's time to ask your representatives why you work so much harder than ever before and yet receive so much less for your efforts? Do you live as well or better than your parents? Do you feel confident about your future and that of your children, or, in spite of paying for the greatest military in history, do you feel afraid for your future prospects?
Strangely enough, we on the Left feel exactly the same way. It turns out we have much in common and in fact we've realized that it isn't the other side of the aisles in Congress that's the enemy...
It's ALL OF THEM.
Perhaps it's time for a change. The New Left are not being listened to by our representatives any more than you are. It's time for We the People to take a stand and make our voices heard in unison, rather than being manipulated into opposing one another.
It is our country at stake. Our future, and that of our children. Is it really acceptable that a tiny few should take all the money and leave the rest of us to scrape for scraps?
Sincerely, the New Left
