Where do we draw the lines?
In this struggle between right and left for the soul of America, where do we draw the lines?
The lines that should not be crossed? How do we decide what those lines are? When it becomes increasingly apparent that the 1% own the right, and about quite a bit of the left, when do we say enough? Enough big money in politics. Enough purchasing candidates, judges, senators, congressmen, presidents.
And once we have seen that line has been crossed. which it has long since been, what do we do about it? How do we turn this around? How do we end their tyranny? Because they are the tyrants, the dictators, of this age we live in. They are the Kings and Queens. They are the Pope. They are the Royalty to whom we have to pledge our allegience, else we risk poverty, ruin, ignominity, shame. Trump is but an extreme example, openly demanding that we grovel. Most of them are more subtle than that, but underneath their public personas, underneath the camoflage of normalcy that many of them try so hard to project, they just want slaves. They just want people to work for the least possible money, they want to put out the cheapest possible products, whether they are safe or not, whether the methods used to obtain/create/manufacture are humane, eco-sensitive, non-polluting.
They really don't give a shit about any of that, except in the context that they know we do, so they give lip service, make consmetic changes, beef up the PR and hire the best lawyers to squash any kind of legal action, or buy the silence of the victims.
The corona virus has brought this into sharp relief. Senators laughing about selling their shares before the market crashed, based on knowledge they received in confidence. Huge corporations grabbing handouts meant for small businesses, to the tune of over 70 billion dollars, and then the money ran out so the small businesses are fucked. Corporations and their Republican lapdogs are pushing to get everyone back to work, whether or not it is safe for them, so they can continue sucking in the money from the cash cow.
That's us. We're the cash cow. They keep on milking us and we keep on letting them.
The lines that should not be crossed? How do we decide what those lines are? When it becomes increasingly apparent that the 1% own the right, and about quite a bit of the left, when do we say enough? Enough big money in politics. Enough purchasing candidates, judges, senators, congressmen, presidents.
And once we have seen that line has been crossed. which it has long since been, what do we do about it? How do we turn this around? How do we end their tyranny? Because they are the tyrants, the dictators, of this age we live in. They are the Kings and Queens. They are the Pope. They are the Royalty to whom we have to pledge our allegience, else we risk poverty, ruin, ignominity, shame. Trump is but an extreme example, openly demanding that we grovel. Most of them are more subtle than that, but underneath their public personas, underneath the camoflage of normalcy that many of them try so hard to project, they just want slaves. They just want people to work for the least possible money, they want to put out the cheapest possible products, whether they are safe or not, whether the methods used to obtain/create/manufacture are humane, eco-sensitive, non-polluting.
They really don't give a shit about any of that, except in the context that they know we do, so they give lip service, make consmetic changes, beef up the PR and hire the best lawyers to squash any kind of legal action, or buy the silence of the victims.
The corona virus has brought this into sharp relief. Senators laughing about selling their shares before the market crashed, based on knowledge they received in confidence. Huge corporations grabbing handouts meant for small businesses, to the tune of over 70 billion dollars, and then the money ran out so the small businesses are fucked. Corporations and their Republican lapdogs are pushing to get everyone back to work, whether or not it is safe for them, so they can continue sucking in the money from the cash cow.
That's us. We're the cash cow. They keep on milking us and we keep on letting them.
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