viva la revolution

It is both encouraging and discouraging reading the news lately. i am encouraged by the occupy movement, but discouraged by Mississippi's attempt to define when life begins....if approved, it will set back reproductive rights forty years or more.

(Whenever i spell Mississippi i still say it a it was taught in grade school: M-I-S-S,I-S-S, I-P-P-I)

There is a growing divide in our country, or perhaps the illusion of a growing divide. To watch or read the news you would think there are only two camps, the Tea Party & the 99%, when i am sure there are those who fall in the middle. Even if it is an illusion, it has damaging outcomes. i find myself falling more and more to the left, wanting policies that restore money to social services and take care of all Americans, rather than the upper class.

When Obama mentioned his tax plan of the rich needing to pay more in taxes, my father told me that he was inciting a class war. He's right, but doesn't know that it is the lower class who will be galvanized and who will tire of supporting the 1%.