Houston Democrats

The history of this country is the history of ever wider opportunity , of the progressive expansion of the rights of all Americans to pursue their dream. Democrats have a long and strong record of promoting opportunity for everyone by fighting discrimination and injustice. Indeed, whenever average Americans are protected against corporate greed, against the arrogance of wealth , there is a Democrat doing the heavy lifting.

All the way back to Revolutionary times, there have been arrogant elites who have worked hard to deny oppurtunity to their "inferiors", using the power of government to keep them in their place. Always, progressives have fought the neverending battle to advance fairness and open oppurtunity for all, through free quality public education and the application of the rule of law to all , corporations and individuals alike.

Americans also have a long history of making communities, of recognizing that we are in this together, that invididual achievement is rooted in the resources that only communities can create and maintain. We understand that America is stronger and more secure when her prosperity is widely and fairly shared, when everyone plays by the same rules.

Now, arrogant elites are again threatening to destroy our hertiage of inclusion and fair play, and our community. They want to destroy the ability of our government to protect the common good against greedy and corrupt interests. In fact , a gang of arrogant pointy headed cultist , in love with Big Business have kidnapped our democracy. They have turned more and more public functions over to the rigged , for profit casino of the mutlinational marketplace, with no provision for public accountability. Thye game our elections, sneer at out Constitution , give away our public treasures and then tell us it is for our own good.

The average American is lead to believe that this means more security, a more economic and efficient government. It doesn't. It has come to mean less security and fewer fundamental rights. It has come to mean obscenely increased comfort for the super-rich, and rapidly disappearing oppurtunity for everybody else. Having made their piles, they have now pulled up the ladder of oppurtunity. Living their isolated lives in their gated communities, they neither know nor care that the rest of America, the mothers and fathers and children , the other 99%, must pay the bill for their blindness and greed.

It is up to us to rally our countrymen to oppose this arrogant gang. For they know no limits, have no respects for our traditions of equity or fairness, have compassion only for the corporations. In the last analysis, their country is not America, their country is Wealth and they serve it with every breathe they take, every decision they make and heaven help the rest of us.