by Robert Reich
As I’ve traveled around the country over the last two months -- to Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, California’s parched central valley, and elsewhere – I’ve been struck by how little people want to talk about politics, and how scared they are about their and their families' future. Many I’ve met tell me they’re not making it. They’re working several part-time jobs, but not earning enough to buy the groceries or pay the rent or the mortgage, maintain the car they need to get to the jobs and pick up the kids, pay their student loans. Why don’t they make the connection between their economic troubles and the people they’ve elected? Because they feel as if no one is listening to them, that the economy is separate from politics, and their troubles are entirely their own fault. They don’t see they’re among the majority of Americans for whom the system is failing as all the economic gains go to the top. Instead, they feel ashamed and alone.
We need a political revival in America that enables the silent majority to see what’s happening to them and why, and empowers them to take action.
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I remember back in 2008 when the banksters crashed the economy, you couldn't get through to any of the offices because the phone lines were so backed up. Fax lines, too.
That's what we need on a daily basis. Let these fuckers know we've had enough. How many calls a day do most people make? Make three more. Put your Senators & Rep on speed dial & call daily. We need a national campaign to do this. Maybe a phone app with all of their numbers, so you just put your address in & it calculates your reps and enters them into your contacts.
Okay, CQ, get off your butt & make it so! 
Would help if we had a catchy name for it.
