First off, before I get into my spiel about the book that is making me all giddy with all sorts of thoughts about this political system of ours, I must thank Miss Iman. She has been sofareal about taking over the helm of The Power Mixer, as I’ve had to limit my involvement for personal reasons (nothing life threatening, thankfully : -). We talked today about her focus on getting it to a whole ‘nother level, so props to her for her continued hard work and dedication. *Hand clap*

Now, about this book I’ve been reading.  I became super inspired to write about it just minutes before writing this and figured this was definitely the forum to purge my thoughts. I don’t know if y’all have heard a few folks out there lament about how things haven’t changed in America with Obama in and Bush out. Certainly race relations did not magically improve with Obama in the office, and I’d argue the election  just exposed how terrible it really is. What people generally are complaining about are jobs/the economy, BP, and the like. To that, I’ll say “it takes time after 8 years of destructive behavior” and “really, you want to blame him for that?” respectively. What people are not calculating in these rants, however, is just how deep the crony-ism and elitism were in the Bush era, the general faulty acceptance since the Reagan years that elitist, not democratic principles, should govern the country, and the simple fact that not a damn thing was done about it. Rather, those principles just mutated like a cancer until the blow up that was “In these Hard Economic Times” , Financial Crisis, circa 2007 , exposing just a tip of the Antarctic upon which these principles of greed thrived.

While it was always my understanding that the Bush years were bad, it takes a certain level of authorship and journalism to revert my “I’ve heard all that ish before, now let’s do something!”  back to my fundamentals of just being pissed the eff off with a side of oh hell naw!! So, the best way to funnel all this energy is with a story offered by this book (which put me in a state of “oh hell naw!!” merely 23 or so pages in).

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