The time for viewing others as heroes is over. The time for
viewing others as comrades has begun.
I can’t help thinking children would be better off if they
weren’t raised in a culture entirely immersed in corporate ideology. That they
would be more able to think for themselves if their minds weren’t molded by
television from their earliest age and then handed an iPod a couple of short
years later. As Russell Brand said, “The people on the other end of the screen are
not your friends.”
Whenever there is a leftist in power here or abroad, watch
conservatives pretend to care about poor people.
It’s hard to believe we went from my parents’ generation,
who wore suits and dresses to do their shopping, to a generation that wears
their slippers and pajama bottoms to Walmart.
Does it bother no one that there is not one person in authority,
no millionaire journalist with their own primetime show or prominent politician,
who is willing to ask questions about Jeffrey Epstein?
I suspect that the typical Republican is one who does the
dirty work of making the sausage and is aware of the cruelty involved in the
process, and the typical Democrat is one who enjoys the finished product and would
rather not know the unpleasant details.
Protests are happening in Spain and all over France. They
are happening in Iraq, Ecuador, England, Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere. But your
TV will only show you the ones that are happening in Venezuela and Hong Kong,
because they are not inconvenient to our rulers. Auto Workers and Teachers are
in the streets, but not on your TVs.
If oligarchy had an actual, physical, ass, our politicians
would be lining up to kiss it.
There is no
crisis so great that reconnecting with nature, neighborhood, community, time-honored
values, and simplicity will not alleviate it. Think of this when you feel
helpless amid problems too big for you. And if you’re terrified of an impending
future of bomb shelters and looters, just remember this is not the only
possible outcome, it is merely the only one our current rulers and their acolytes
can imagine.
As the 90’s baseball stats will forever have an asterisk next
to them for steroids, today’s journalism and film awards will have one for
propaganda.
I have not yet read Sun Tsu’s Art of War, but I’m willing to
bet “When Russia hacks your election to elect a neo-fascist, your first course
of action must be to censor progressive media” is not in it anywhere.
Remember when the media used to have programs that critiqued
the media? I miss those.
What if Russia is propping up Biden so that Trump will have
an easy victory in 2020?
Capitalism has convinced us that poisons applied to our
lawns and formulas from a can for babies are improvements over nature.
The Democratic Party is like a baby tooth that stubbornly
hangs on while an adult tooth is trying to take its rightful place. It has
outlived its purpose, it is delaying progress and maturation, and it has grown
rotten from sucking from the teat of corporate money. It is not any kind of answer
to the corruption of the Republican Party, its bad example permits people to justify
continuing to vote for Republicans.
Next time Republicans tell you that the Democrats were the party of
slavery, remind them that the Republicans used to support giving asylum to
immigrants and be pro-union. Things changed and the racists started voting
Republican.
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