I did not write the italicized portion of this - Nancy Jones's Blog

I am grateful to the person who did.  My country is broken and the reason I've been scarce around here is that I'm spending most of my spare hours working in ways other than writing poetry to help fix it.  I miss writing, but love reading soup stuff.. please know that your talent and insights are stunning to me, and feed me in nourishing ways.  Many thanks, namaste ~N

America's greatness and prosperity was built on the strength of her working and middle classes. Together, we — the 99 percent — built the world's strongest democracy, enforced the rule of law, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, established an ever-rising standard of justice, ensured domestic tranquility, and secured the blessings of liberty for many generations of American families.

Now, our 99 percent way of life is gone, devoured by an elite 1 percent who took over our own government and used it against us to seize both the personal and the common wealth amassed for us by generations of our ancestors and provided to us by the bounty of this land.

We want our American birthright back. We want to restore rule by the 99 percent. We want the elites to return our futures and our government to us. We will challenge them by every means we can find until this happens.