Change Spreads in the African and Arab World, While America Continues On With Out It.

As I write this, disenfranchised youth are protesting and spreading a Democratic Revolution thought out the African and Arab world.

The beginning of these movements lie in the democratic life and death struggles in places like Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, and with the death of Mohamed Bouaziz in Tunisia, an impoverished street vendor who was beaten by police after they stole his wares, and beaten again after he bravely went to the police station to demand his property. He then went to the Governor's Office to complain and was rudely turned away. Mohamed Bouaziz's last act was to set himself afire in the government square of the town Sidi Bousiz where he struggled to support his family in dignity.

Mohamed Bouaziz's self sacrifice was not in vain. Increasingly violent and relentless
protests forced the autocratic and corrupt President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country. When Ben Ali's cabinet members assumed other positions of power in the government, they too were driven from office as well. Now protests have spread to Egypt where the dictator Hosni Mubarak has ruled since 1981 using his warm relationship with America and the weak threat of the Muslim Brother Hood to propel his autocratic and corrupt regime. But the Muslim Brotherhood ( who have now joined behind the youth movement ) admitted that their efforts over the years to bring down Mubarak have been futile compared to those who have now taken to the streets. Egyptian Lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed El Baradei who attempted change, from within the system to oppose Mubarak, has also jumped onto the growing bad wagon.

Mubarak continues to use his brutal security apparatus to crush the demonstrations, but the protests have only intensified. Yesterday Mubarak closed down the Internet in an attempt to cut communication between the protesters. Seeing his control sleeping away, Mubarak then ordered all his ministers to resign, but is still fighting to keep his position in power.
Now Al Jazeera radio and TV with their constant and aggressive coverage, are adding fuel to the fire.
Protests have now been sparked in Yemen and Jordan.

But in America nothing has changed. And the tragedy is that
President Obama had it easier than those students dying to reform the countries above. President Obama had the mandate to step into the smoldering wreck of the American economy, (and before all of America and especially those who voted for change), grab up by the scruff of it's neck for all to see, the near dead body politic of the parasitic corporate greed and self aggrandizement that destroyed our economy. Then President Obama could have charted and forged a new America. I don't think it was a question of President Obama not being brave enough. I simply think real change wasn't what motivated him . I think he knew that it motivated us to vote for him so he assumed that identity, to get elected. But once elected Obama stepped over the prone bodies of suffering Americans and pumped trillions of dollars to resurrect the old order of greed and corruption. And Americans by and large are silent, except for the Tea Party Movement of course.