I am so alarmed by the way things are going in our country right now that blogging about what’s going on in my life feels irrelevant. Forget about the economy and politics for a second and ask yourself why this crisis happened so close to the election.

Think about it.

Then watch this 27-minute interview with Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries:

I sure hope she’s wrong…

McCain and the POW Cover-up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam

By Sydney H. Schanberg
September 18, 2008

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

Author Naomi Wolf gives a compelling explanation of why ordinary people MUST stand up for democracy — now.

Wolf urges all Americans to take part in a general strike or Constitution Day on the sixth of every month until our constitution is restored. Starting this Tuesday, if you possibly can, stay home from work and don’t buy anything. If millions of Americans do these two simple things, it will send a powerful message to Congress to stop sniveling and stand up to the White House.

Don’t believe me? You may be too young to remember, but I’m not: it took only three days of a widely observed National Moratorium to strike a real blow to the war in the Vietnam.

Tuesday, vote with your feet and your dollars. Don’t work. Don’t buy anything.