Mad as Hell--I'm beginning to feel this way!

Today I got four solicitations for donations to fight against the "Koch Brothers"

I wrote back to each in total frustration, knowing full well not one word will reach the senders. I just felt better.

My feelings are, why should I support the advertising agencies that will attempt to define the Democratic candidates when most of them are unwilling, perhaps unable, to define themselves. Nor to recognize or ignore the cancer growing on our Democracy.

I am hearing nothing but tepid, hackneyed drivel coming from most. In fact, with the exception of Massachusetts' Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont's Senator, Bernie Sanders, I am not hearing much but claptrap and a sense of "going along to get along" from the Democrats in general and the candidates specifically.

Let me see if I have this straight--starting with the senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, his agenda and that of his party was dedicated to seeing that President Obama would be a one termer. The extremists nominate half-wits like Christine "I'm not a Witch" O'Donnell, Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin and Richard "No terminating a rape pregnancy" Mourdock. All lost but many others did not and the extremists are now in control of the "Party of Lincoln," "the party of Compassionate Conservatism." No GOPer dare challenge the status quo. Nor some Democrats.

The word "compromise" dooms you. Representative government only applies to a fraction of the population.

The Middle Class is vanishing, Income disparity is the worst in memory with just 1% of the population holding as much wealth as the bottom 30% (Ninety million Americans)

Poverty, especially affecting children, is at an historic high.

The GOP unanimously supports any effort to suppress the ability of minorities or any other group they feel supports their opposition, The claim is to fight voter fraud.

The Virginia division of these characters refuse to accept 100% funding from the Federal government to provide health care for working poor. Though the taxpayers share the burden of funding the Affordable Care Act, the "Party of Business" thinks their position makes good sense

The Supreme Court defines corporations as people. And while the right wing hates government, they praise the corporations, even as GM hides defects that kill people, Duke Power fills the Dan River with poisonous ash. Oil companies through neglect, indifference and cost-cutting pollute our air, our beaches, our oceans and our land. A chemical company through negligence, makes water undrinkable for thousands in West Virginia.

Meanwhile, one in four corporations pay no federal tax as many are making BILLIONS.

Many park profits offshore while utilizing all the benefits of our society.

The litany of issues directly refuting the provisions of the Preamble of our Constitution are legion.

So as President Obama's approval ratings plummet, he counters with praise of Ronald Reagan and his new found support for Bush's Iraq fiasco.

The Big Lie and distortions put forth by the right seldom are contradicted. The pernicious greed of the oligarchs goes unchecked.

There is a time to feel anger. There is a time to express anger. There are reasons to BE angry.

There is a time to fight back, that time is NOW! IT is the RIGHT of the people!

I will close my comments with an excerpt from our Declaration of Independence:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Harry Tenney (Electronic mail, March 29, 2014)