80%+ of Americans would be kindred spirits if they stepped back and thought about things for a while

80%+ of Americans would be kindred spirits if they stepped back and thought about things for a while. 
Over 80% of Americans would agree on the MAIN issues we face. 

What we are talking about is just plain common sense. 

War makes nations poor, trade makes nations rich. 

A system of government owned by Oligarchs will not help the 99.9%. 

A clique of elite private bankers controlling the nation's  money supply is bad news for everyone except the elite private bankers. 


Competition is good - it encourages innovation and better value for consumers (and voters). 

Monopolies are bad for everyone except the monopolist. 

The Federal government is now a monopoly - very little power now resides in the States. 
The vast majority of taxes now go to the Federal government and not to the states governments. 

The Federal Reserve private bank now has monopoly power on the money supply, instead of the states competing with each other, with different policies on the money supply and their own currency.  

The Oligarchs are now able to control elections and legislation through their power over campaign contributions and the lobbyist system.
   
But most of the population don't want to stop and think. They are content to continue to play the game set up for them by the Oligarchs. 
Most of the population love making cheap partisan shots and insults over trivialities - you don't have to do any thinking at all to do that. 
Americans today much prefer NOT to think. 

The partisan politics have no real meaning in the face of both parties agreeing that :-  

BOTH parties agreeing that $2tn a year should be stolen from the 99% and given to rich elites.

BOTH parties agreeing that perpetual war should continue to America's great harm, for the purpose of stealing from the 99% to give to the rich and to distract and control the general population and take away their natural, innate and "self evident" civil rights.  
If Americans were not presented with an external enemy, they might even stop to think and come to the conclusion that it is the bankers and their own government that are their main threat. 

BOTH parties agreeing that the big banks and large Corporations should be above the Rule of Law. 
No senior bankers should be jailed for their numerous crimes of large scale fraud, money laundering, market manipulation and outright theft.

America was born out of the greatest system of governance for wealth and prosperity ever devised. 
It was born out of a system of friendly, co-operative competition between relatively small economic and political units, called states.

America within a very short space of time became the greatest and wealthiest power on Earth.

That system has now been torn to shreds and replaced by a MONOPOLY. 
A Monopoly that abuses it's powers for it's own enrichment and to the great detriment of everyone else.

That system has led to America's insidious and persistent decline since 2001. 
That system has made everyone in America, except the MONOPOLISTS, much poorer.

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-case-against-barack-obama.html
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-case-against-barack-obama-democrat.html 

I BELIEVE in America. I have a DREAM. I have a dream that America's problems will be widely recognised and thence be fixed.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/i-beleive-i-have-dream-i-have-dream.html



A similar competitive system of relatively small economic and political units, allowed Europe to take over the world from about 1500 - but that system was far less co-operative and far more antagonistic.