Decision Time
Dear UCubed Leader:
Next year, America’s NOT Working Class faces two tough decisions.
To vote or not to vote is the first decision. If past is prologue, 40 million fewer Americans will vote in 2014 than in 2012. Many of those non-voters will hail from the NOT working class precincts.
By sitting on the sidelines, those non-voters accept the status quo – an unending jobs crisis and massive, structural unemployment – as the new normal.
However, if even one-tenth of those 40 million non-voters revolted and voted against this dysfunctional Congress, they could produce a political tsunami. A wave election, led by jobless households, could sweep away the obstacles to a full-blown jobs program and faster growth policies.
And that brings us to the second decision. Do we throw all the bums out? Or do we just throw some of them out?
Right now, polls indicate that voters want to throw them all out. More than four-fifths feel that way. Far fewer feel that their own representative or senators should be tossed out of office.
Tea Partying incumbents rely on that split decision. “Congress is awful,” they say, “but I’m okay” when, in fact, they ARE the problem. Their failure to problem solve in times of crisis, their unwillingness to compromise, their votes to obstruct every jobs bill and their demands for greater austerity prove they do not deserve re-election.
After seven years of recession and a molasses slow recovery, every Tea Party beholdened incumbent should be held accountable. So ask them one question:
What have you done for me recently?
If you are not satisfied with their answer, then make plans to vote twice next year, once in the primary and once in the general election. Then push and prod your friends to go vote. And let them know why you feel that your elected officials have failed you and your family.
That’s how we make democracy work for all of us.
In Unity — Strength,
Rick
Rick Sloan
UCubed President
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