Michael Moore has done more to give Americans class consciousness than all the socialist and communist parties in America combined.  Why?  Cause he lays it out in a simple and very clear way for people to see the political and economic situation. 

Moore has put together a letter spelling out five things that need to be changed and how we can do it.  His five things that have to be done are basically what I think is the baseline to clean up the years of Reaganism and Greenspanism.  To get back into giving American families and the American Democracy a chance from the Free Marketeers that took over every aspect of this society:

FIVE THINGS WE DEMAND THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS DO IMMEDIATELY:

1. Declare a moratorium on all home evictions. Not one more family should be thrown out of their home. The banks must adjust their monthly mortgage payments to be in line with what people's homes are now truly worth -- and what they can afford. Also, it must be stated by law: If you lose your job, you cannot be tossed out of your home.  ( I would add to this eliminate all the student loan debt)
2. Congress must join the civilized world and expand Medicare For All Americans. A single, nonprofit source must run a universal health care system that covers everyone. Medical bills are now the #1 cause of bankruptcies and evictions in this country. Medicare For All will end this misery. The bill to make this happen is H.R. 3200 -- but this bill is worthless without the amendment from Rep. Anthony Weiner that will bring us closer to the real bill that should be passed: H.R. 676. You must call AND write your members of Congress and demand that they support this amendment, no compromises allowed.
3.  Demand publicly-funded elections and a prohibition on elected officials leaving office and becoming lobbyists. Yes, those very members of Congress who solicit and receive millions of dollars from wealthy interests must vote to remove ALL money from our electoral and legislative process. Tell your members of Congress they must support campaign finance bill H.R.1826. (Without this we have no chance to ever have a Democracy.  Our elected officials are bought and sold from the minute they go into office.  I would add there will be no advertising on television, or radio.  The orgy that was the last Presidential primary and election still makes me want to throw up.  )
4. Each of the 50 states must create a state-owned public bank like they have in North Dakota. Then congress MUST reinstate all the strict pre-Reagan regulations on all commercial banks, investment firms, insurance companies -- and all the other industries that have been savaged by deregulation: Airlines, the food industry, pharmaceutical companies -- you name it. If a company's primary motive to exist is to make a profit, then it needs a set of stringent rules to live by -- and the first rule is "Do no harm." The second rule: The question must always be asked -- "Is this for the common good?
5. Save this fragile planet and declare that all the energy resources above and beneath the ground are owned collectively by all of us. Just like they do it in Sarah Palin's socialist Alaska. We only have a few decades of oil left. The public must be the owners and landlords of the natural resources and energy that exists within our borders or we will descend further into corporate anarchy. And when it comes to burning fossil fuels to transport ourselves, we must cease using the internal combustion engine and instruct our auto/transportation companies to rehire our skilled workforce and build mass transit (clean buses, light rail, subways, bullet trains, etc.) and new cars that don't contribute to climate change. (For more on this, here's a proposal I wrote in December.) Demand that General Motors' de facto chairman, Barack Obama, issue a JFK man-on-the-moon-style challenge to turn our country into a nation of trains and buses and subways. For Pete's sake, people, we were the ones who invented (or perfected) these damn things in the first place!!

Moore goes on to tell people how to do it.  I think this is an excellent start to clean up the mess of the economic and political crisis that the Radical free marketeers have done to the American Democracy. 

How do we keep from getting distracted by the news cycles?  How do we stay focused on these issues?  If you want to continue having some semblance of a quality of life and a democracy, I will say this is a good start. 

I am not a Moore groupie, but I think he has done a great job here crystalizing what needs to be done to get back to where the American people have a chance.  Face it, unless these changes are incorporated, we will continue to fritter away whatever middle class wealth exists and the corporatists will continue telling us things like this: 

"Speaking to an audience at St Paul’s Cathedral in London about morality in the marketplace last night, Griffiths (Goldman executive) said the British public should “tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity for all” [...]

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Because it's Friday, I ran into this clip, some of the best writing depicting the culture of greed and ugly arrogance that seems to have become a cultural idea.  The acting is brilliant.   A hall of fame of actors and Mamet writing: