Now that the election is over more thoughtful citizens want to move beyond the euphoria and/or grief over whether our particular candidates won or lost.

What we in the middle class what to know is what is likely to happen with the issues we care about and even more importantly we want to know who really won and who really lost in this election other than mere politicians.

No, what we want to know is what is the plan to deal with the issues we really cared about in the course of the election; why they did not get even discussed and there is no plan to even address them in the next four years. Obama or no Obama.

We will discuss these "hidden" issues in the next several weeks one by one (about 21 of them) and offer solutions and more importantly, which of the issues ought to be tackled and, in what order.

I know a huge task but the impossible is simply what us Amercans have not yet achieved.

By way of preview of the list of 21:

Who won the election?

Wall Street won the elections and invested 5 billion dollars in doing so and won the status quo. No real changes likely, fiscal cliff or no.

The issues they cared about won or were effectively blocked from even being brought up by either of the major parties or their candidates.

Now that is winning by preventing. What am I referring to?

Wall street effectively blocked any discussion of:

Climate change even in the face of a devastating  hurricane in New England
Massive foreclosures among the poor and the middle class
A financial system in meltdown and recesssion heading toward depression and crushing austerity cuts
Racism and the New Jim Crow
Bank criminality
Wall Street criminality,
Increasing poverty, decreasing wages
An aging population with fewer skills
Immigration
Education Reform and investment
The short falls of the capitalist system
Threats to Democracy from the National Security State
Serious political reform of a broken Congress and political system
The buying and selling of political office by millionaries and billionaries
Tax reform where the rich loot middle class assets and get away with it
Repatriation of money hidden overseas, wealth ineqality
Only 51% of the American people even bothered to vote.
The concentration of ownership of the media in a few hands
Right wing and Identity politics
Physical Infrastructure and Energy policy
Military Spending
The Fiscal Cliff

I could go on and on. But what to do about all this. That starting tommorow.

 11/8/12
This blog continues on this site, entitled "A Blog on Obama-My Report Card" Kindly look there for further entries on the 21 problems.