At the rate that has been demonstrated, and
the lack of concern on the part of so many, we may lose most of what was
obtained by the longest and hardest struggles (see your history fellow citizens!).
What rights that workers have obtained will have to be fought for long and
excruciatingly all over again.
Congress is not a collection of
representatives “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” but instead
a club of, by, and for millionaires, billionaires, and corporations. Working for, or at least compromise for, the
common good, is so rare it is effectively inconsequential. We have a one-party system with two factions,
effectively controlled by a five letter word, MONEY.
A system that, on its present path, cannot
deliver the one thing that the most extensive worldwide polling ever done has
revealed is the most ardent desire of the present-day adult the world over:
A good paying (livable wage) job. The very thing that this corporatist, maximum
short-term profit, world system is least capable (and least desirous) of
delivering. And because the system
doesn’t do that most foundational thing it NEEDS to do, nearly every other
problem we have cascades into near insolvability. The system is on track to so monumentally
under-deliver, it doesn’t take a soothsayer to see the problems coming at us.
And yet we keep thinking the “magical
market”—yes, the twisted, manipulated, corporate-and-plutocrat-controlled “free
market”—is somehow going to deliver for us what we desperately need. But it is the same system whispering its
continuous barrage of weakening diversion and subjugation: “Embrace The Illusion.”
Boy, do we need a lot of people to, with quiet
but firm determination, whisper back: “Not Me.”
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