Softening?

Editor,

The issue dividing the United States, with giant corporations and the richest few percent of the population on one side and a beleaguered working class on the other, is whether the wealth of our nation will be shared or hoarded by a very small, powerful elite.

The dictatorships corporate America installed in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Iran, the Philippines, and elsewhere after WWII, do not inspire me with hope that the right wing here is ready to conceded any of the economic power it has concentrated in its own hands since the 1980's.

Slavery in the the 1850's posed a similar irreconcilable ideological divide in American politics. When Lincoln felt that the North was strong enough to save the Union, he finally went to war.

I don't know what to predict at this juncture in our history, and I certainly do not advocate violence of any sort because it's always innocent 9-year-old girls who die when fundamentalist maniacs duel it out in the streets.

But I do know that corporate America does not care who starves, who dies, or what is destroyed as long as they make their billions. Look at the misery these actors have created across the globe and, in the last few years, so shockingly here at home.

There may be some softening of the political rhetoric, although I doubt that will last for long if it happens, but I am convinced there will be no relinquishing of the strangle-hold the right wing has on this country's economy. Regulate corporations? Rich pay taxes? Sounds simple unless you are a corporation or are rich.

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