Sunday, February 26, 2012

Whispering Back To Power


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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