The American people have been at war for 23 years. It’s not like previous wartimes we’ve faced. The enemy is not a sovereign nation, but faceless evildoers wherever they may hide. The consequences of this war are also different, but very clear. Strain on the very fabric of society has pushed our democracy to the edge of failure, as politically stoked violence from within consumes a divided nation. Gun violence. Hate crimes. Violence against immigrants & citizens alike. We need unity above all.
This is about all of us. This isn’t about party, as much as about who deserves to benefit from America. The elite are trying to convince us that giving them all the money is best for us (because we would just waste it). So they divide us up, every possible way they can. Stoking division, so we blame each other for everything, when it’s really just a few rich fuckers that are the whole problem for the rest of us. They’re SO DESPERATE that we don’t figure it out. There’s WAY more of us than them.
It probably wasn’t what I said. Most likely the Nazi flag got it pulled from TikTok. Now just imagine George Carlin talking about Stupid People, and the slideshow below, give or take, and you’ll get the post.
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They want you to be afraid of Socialism and Communism because they would hurt the 1%. The ones who make the rules. Our owners, as George Carlin would say. Because the answer is simple. They would have to give up some of their wealth to make the system more fair.
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They pulled a switch on us. They took our legit fear of certain autocratic Communist and Socialist regimes, and turned it into a fear of communism and socialism. The Cold war fears of Russia, China, and Cuba, thanks to the valid threat of nuclear annihilation, became a fear of Communism and Socialism.
They told us to be afraid of corrupt autocratic governments that took away the rights of their citizens, who might lob nukes at us. They used those fears to make us afraid of the economic theories that attempt to redistribute wealth more evenly, and make things better for the common folks. Why? For One Reason: To protect their wealth, power and control.
But it’s not the appropriate-ism that was ever the problem with China or Russia. It was the autocratic part. The corruption. Because corrupt autocrats seek to limit freedoms and take away rights.
And the nukes. Don’t forget the nukes. We now know that Communists ALL want to nuke everything good.
Socialism and communism are actually about social justice. They are about ensuring basic needs for people as human rights. They are about freedom from hunger and disease. Equitable distribution of wealth and goods. For all people, not just the ones who can afford it. Nothing to fear from, unless you have WAY too much and you’re worried someone will take it away and give it to someone in need.
You could actually make a better case that Capitalism is humanity’s grand problem, because of the inherent inequality and exploitation. Greed without controls or conscience is a recipe for mass cruelty. Capitalism is out of control in America, and Congress is complicit.
They want you to be afraid of Socialism and Communism because they would hurt the 1%. The ones who make the rules. Our owners, as George Carlin would say. Because the answer is simple. They would have to give up some of their wealth to make the system more fair. And THEY are the insatiable rich, who thirst for more no matter how much they already have. Gluttony. Greed. Capitalism. All one in the same thing.
Democratic Socialism is just capitalism with a conscience. Let the rich get rich. AFTER the rest of us are out of poverty. AFTER everyone can see a doctor and not worry about the bill. The important things that everyone needs must be a available to all. Owned by all. Not profit centers for the rich and shameless. You can still make a killing selling people shit they don’t need…after we guarantee that everyone has the shit they DO need. Science says if you end poverty, crime is virtually non-existent, while productivity and knowledge increase…along with happiness.
Increased happiness goes a long way to solving social problems of all sorts. From shoplifting to school shooters. Happy people with their needs met (physical and psychological) don’t do that shit.
Yes, this is the picture I chose. #selfie
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I think it’s time that the human race figures out, that progress for a few should never mean regress for some. If your success comes at another’s expense, it is not really success. It’s abuse. Abuse of human rights. Abuse of our shared resources. Abuse of power, for profit…and more power. Call it Capitalism. Call it anything you want to, to justify it in your conscience. But I call them crimes against humanity, and only the wealthy and powerful are actually able to commit them. Uber Wealthy People. Big companies. Countries. Because after all, who can actually hold them accountable?
Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.
Here’s what I think about Critical Race Theory (CRT). I think it sucks. Making school kids feel bad about their race, white or black, is not positive or useful, and can harm their mental health. Stop it teachers, if you’re doing it (I don’t actually think most of you are).
Critical Race Theory shouldn’t be a thing. In fact, it really isn’t a thing, except in the minds of the anti-woke. But, no one should be made to feel bad about their race, gender, or religion, or blamed for events if the past committed by others ‘like them’. History should be taught in an objective way, the truth being prioritized over politics and prejudice.
The sins of our forefathers are our past, not our future. We must learn about and use the events of the past to guide our steps into the next chapter of human evolution. To make a better future.
We must learn of past injustices…without blaming anyone for them… in order to devote ourselves to fixing them, avoiding making the same mistakes over and over again. We can’t sensor out the bad parts because we don’t like the way they reflect on us. We cannot allow ourselves to forget, because our history…our collective memory…is the key to learning to do better.
But that means we must teach ALL the facts about the past…even the uncomfortable ones. In the past we may have fucked up. OK. Now it’s time to move on. It sure as fuck wasn’t my fault. I’m gonna say it wasn’t yours either.
Look…We can simply choose to accept “that’s just the way things are”, or we can decide to change things for the better. Fear of change doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary. I won’t accept that we can’t do a LOT better, despite some very great progress.
But there are still plenty of haters out there, and they are only getting louder, angrier, and more violently hateful, trying to create a more divided nation. They resist being “woke” because they don’t want us to wake up.
Because they know the truth: Change is overdue. But they don’t want change. It will hurt their profits and wealth, and they’re “doing just fine the way things are, thanks”, and you know, rich people are so much more important than the rest of us.
E pluribus unum. From many, One. One people, one voice. #Vote for Change. Vote for #Progress. #VoteProgressive
Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.
They say your vote matters. This year it really may. Across the country, election deniers are running for offices that can affect the outcome of future elections. If they are elected, they could change the results of elections, despite the will of the voters. It’s clear they are willing to lie and to cheat in order to win, because they know that their policies are so unpopular they couldn’t win any other way. It’s a disgrace to America.
Look. You and I both know it. The American political system is fully corrupt. Lobbying is legalized bribery. The GOP may be the first party to have abused it to the point of absolute lawlessness, based on lies about the election. But for years, both parties have conspired together to exploit and manipulate The People.
Our economy is essentially a ‘caste system’ that allows the elite to profit no matter what, while the average American gets a smaller and smaller piece of the pie. They tell you anyone can make it, but only a few actually do. Corporation shareholder meetings and the Federal Reserve Bank decide our futures, not our votes.
Yet so many of us just accept the shitty system, as our future grows bleaker. So many folks don’t even bother to vote. Nothing changes until The People Demand Change. Peacefully. Sans insurrection.
We need to do a LOT to fix our political system. But, without fair elections, we won’t be able to do anything, and all of us but the wealthiest will be completely voiceless about our futures.
Register. Vote. November 8th, 2022. If you’re not sure who to choose, vote Democrat. Democrats at least will let you choose your shitty future from your shitty choices.
What if your vote mattered, and the money you paid in taxes was actually spent on things that mattered to YOU? Imagine if you got to vote on where that money got spent. What if you could check boxes on your tax return to determine what purposes your tax money could be spent on, and the government HAD to spend it on those things only? Yes, spend my taxes on education. No, don’t spend anything on military. Yes, feed the poor. No, tax breaks to ExxonMobil.
Well, it probably wouldn’t work because rich people would start paying just enough taxes to fuck over the rest of us…but the point is this: We don’t live in a democracy. It’s a plutocratic oligarchy. Your vote may count for WHO you elect, but what they do when they get there is decided by money. Legal bribery, really. They call it lobbying, but rich people pay cash to get the government to do what they want. The more money you have, the louder your voice and the more likely you are to get your way.
Most of us have better things to spend our money on, because we know the puny amount we could spend wouldn’t buy us a second thought from our government. But wealthy people and corporations have deep pockets, and control the outcome of our votes. We don’t get to decide ‘pass gun control’ or ‘don’t pass gun control’. All we can do is vote red or blue and wait for nothing to happen.
Our voices have been silenced by big government and a rigged two party system that is designed to self perpetuate and grow, exploiting the masses more as it does. The rich get richer. Pandemic Recession. War. None of it matters when you’re rich as fuck. Bank accounts keep growing. Lobbyists are hired. Votes are solicited. Laws are changed to spend more government money here or there. Never where it’s really needed by the majority of our citizens.
People who need help go without, while the rich get tax cuts. Billions go to subsidize fossil fuel corporate shareholders while our veterans are forgotten. Teachers use their own money to buy paper and pencils because schools are underfunded. Folks lose their houses because of medical bills, while Jeff Bezos blasts his ugly bald head and all his rich buddies into space. It doesn’t matter who you vote for. As long as money makes the decisions in DC, it doesn’t matter who you elect. Not in this system.
But a system that pretends to be democratic can’t last. Good intentions or not, this is not what the framers could have forseen. They were wise, not psychic. They built checks and balances, but there’s a way around everything if you’re willing to sacrifice your conscience, and well, most of the politicians we elect have none. So it keeps growing. Bigger. More corrupt. More money for the wealthy, less of everything for everyone else. Less happiness. Less free time to think about being unhappy. Less money. Less LIFE. Until it ultimately implodes, thanks to corruption and greed, or explodes in revolution, whichever comes first.
There’s still time, for a ‘peaceful revolution’ at the ballot box, but since one party is going out of their way to erode our faith in elections, the other kind of revolution will quickly become the only game in town.
Your VOTE still matters. Choose wisely. Choose Independent. Choose Implosion. Demand better candidates. Demand term limits. Demand money OUT of politics Demand a VOICE in the future. Demand DEMOCRACY. Don’t buy the party lines. EITHER of them. They are both designed to polarize and divide. They are both designed to exploit. Designed to fail.
United we Stand, Divided we Fail. ~jg
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Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.
