Dictionarily speaking, treacle, which equates to saccharine speech has always trumped treachery. Interesting to me, is the fact that, it is also the molasses goo left over when processing sugar and was formerly known by the ancients as a cure for some poisons. Science has determined that for the most part, it is not, but that is another part of the story. The sickeningly sweet offal that is served up to us by our "news" outlets has become so vacuous as to even regurgitate such bizarre and delusional diatribes as "I just invented" the term "prime the pump." This sort of pap is exactly the sort of thing that some people still believe is a remedy to political poisoning. It is not.
If we didn't laugh, we would surely cry.
All the time we spend laughing at the current political situation, or crying about it, is necessarily time we are not spending getting involved in the revolution that will never be televised! I have redoubled my efforts to tune in, really get up close and personal with the stark reality of our situation. I have upped my game in the turning on department as well, trying to pursue only the issues and actions that align with my moral and spiritual awareness, the last part of the process is dropping out, which seems to be impossible for a landowner/mortgage holder.
The reason we have turned a blind eye to the immorality, the deceit, the ignorant policies which our current President believes in for only one reason, because the owners of our media refuse to demand changes from the person who has hijacked the highest office in the land. Even before the election, it was obvious to many that the whole process was corrupted by money. That alone probably kept the majority of voters who stayed away from the polls from being able to participate in good conscience. The two major party candidates were both covered with the stench of big money and refused to commit to any discussion of real issues, choosing instead to let their spin hide the fact that both were deceitful cheaters.
Media reports continue to ignore the elephant in the room.
Better to just keep letting the general public think that there is no choice in the matter. It is lucrative for the oligarchs to let us think that our hands are tied than to teach us what needs to be done to remove the treasonous from office. Try as they might, the facts undermine their position. Science has proven the myths of capitalism to be lies repeatedly, but the story will not be told by the billionaires who now own (or rather lease) our air waves. The irony is that we have, on the books, laws to reign in the monopolies, we have the anti-trust laws enacted that helped get us out of The Great Depression, we just don't enforce them any more.
The siphoning off of wealth that is taking place in our day is no different than what brought on the housing crash, what caused the dot com crash or what causes every species to boom and bust. I thought everyone had seen the movie "Office Space", wherein they find a way to skim off the half pennies that occasionally have to be rounded off. This is the approach that has been used to hollow out our cities, create black ghettos, gentrify, create food deserts, etc. Ask yourself a few important questions. Then get your answers from history, and you will find that the guys in suits, talking to one another have been living off generations of investment of blood, sweat tears and toil. The crumbling infrastructure is just one symptom of the great shifting of capital, from the bottom up.
When redlining became popular, (Redlining developed first right here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.) money was beginning to flow into the black communities of our nation as it never had before. Unions were gaining strength and black, mostly men were itching to buy into the American Dream. Home ownership was key to making that investment in society (so many blacks thought). The social contract is always about future security for sacrifice now. Realtors, banks and bigoted strategists actually drew lines on the map overtly saying black buyers only on one side of the line, whites only in suburban neighborhoods. This systematic ghetto system amounted to slavery of a different sort. Now, our leaders were are able to subject different neighborhoods to different management strategies. Any whites who remember these times, or are still experiencing them, do not want to admit; this was a design flaw of our forebears and we need to stop perpetrating it as institutional racism.
Once segregated, it was easy to send in, often white merchants, looking for deals in the real estate market. Liquor stores and pawn shops, bodegas with more sugar than vitamins, because where could you find better customers for that crap, them those looking to cover their pain and desperation than the very same people many whites want to "prove" bring poverty on themselves. You know the lie, "Their bad moral choices lead to their situation", not the fact that there is no real food for miles, the car broke down after hitting a giant pothole, you're too late for work to go buy a sandwich, so you drink the Kool-aid, literally. I would say several, but truly there have been many echoes and reverberations of this throughout our development as a "civilization". The reason poor exist today is not because they are lazy, shiftless or without morality, it is because there is a line of suits with their hands in our pockets!
Fortunately, the men in suits are now arranged the same way, each pointing to the other. They have found new ways to segregate all of us, exploit our urge to survive, and steal the wealth of generations for the sake of next quarter profits.
The way we take back our power is to get out of debt, stop buying their charade, re-green food deserts, fully implement the spirit of the laws that led to the end of many monopolies and graft, redouble our efforts to achieve what the Clean Air and Water Acts intended, and to stop passing the buck. The circle of fools is delusional with their own wealth, even though it is all stolen from us, they think it is made by their toil or intelligence, or in the cast of the current American President to be the Divine Right of Kings!
If we didn't laugh, we would surely cry.
All the time we spend laughing at the current political situation, or crying about it, is necessarily time we are not spending getting involved in the revolution that will never be televised! I have redoubled my efforts to tune in, really get up close and personal with the stark reality of our situation. I have upped my game in the turning on department as well, trying to pursue only the issues and actions that align with my moral and spiritual awareness, the last part of the process is dropping out, which seems to be impossible for a landowner/mortgage holder.
The reason we have turned a blind eye to the immorality, the deceit, the ignorant policies which our current President believes in for only one reason, because the owners of our media refuse to demand changes from the person who has hijacked the highest office in the land. Even before the election, it was obvious to many that the whole process was corrupted by money. That alone probably kept the majority of voters who stayed away from the polls from being able to participate in good conscience. The two major party candidates were both covered with the stench of big money and refused to commit to any discussion of real issues, choosing instead to let their spin hide the fact that both were deceitful cheaters.
Media reports continue to ignore the elephant in the room.
Better to just keep letting the general public think that there is no choice in the matter. It is lucrative for the oligarchs to let us think that our hands are tied than to teach us what needs to be done to remove the treasonous from office. Try as they might, the facts undermine their position. Science has proven the myths of capitalism to be lies repeatedly, but the story will not be told by the billionaires who now own (or rather lease) our air waves. The irony is that we have, on the books, laws to reign in the monopolies, we have the anti-trust laws enacted that helped get us out of The Great Depression, we just don't enforce them any more.
The siphoning off of wealth that is taking place in our day is no different than what brought on the housing crash, what caused the dot com crash or what causes every species to boom and bust. I thought everyone had seen the movie "Office Space", wherein they find a way to skim off the half pennies that occasionally have to be rounded off. This is the approach that has been used to hollow out our cities, create black ghettos, gentrify, create food deserts, etc. Ask yourself a few important questions. Then get your answers from history, and you will find that the guys in suits, talking to one another have been living off generations of investment of blood, sweat tears and toil. The crumbling infrastructure is just one symptom of the great shifting of capital, from the bottom up.
When redlining became popular, (Redlining developed first right here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.) money was beginning to flow into the black communities of our nation as it never had before. Unions were gaining strength and black, mostly men were itching to buy into the American Dream. Home ownership was key to making that investment in society (so many blacks thought). The social contract is always about future security for sacrifice now. Realtors, banks and bigoted strategists actually drew lines on the map overtly saying black buyers only on one side of the line, whites only in suburban neighborhoods. This systematic ghetto system amounted to slavery of a different sort. Now, our leaders were are able to subject different neighborhoods to different management strategies. Any whites who remember these times, or are still experiencing them, do not want to admit; this was a design flaw of our forebears and we need to stop perpetrating it as institutional racism.
Once segregated, it was easy to send in, often white merchants, looking for deals in the real estate market. Liquor stores and pawn shops, bodegas with more sugar than vitamins, because where could you find better customers for that crap, them those looking to cover their pain and desperation than the very same people many whites want to "prove" bring poverty on themselves. You know the lie, "Their bad moral choices lead to their situation", not the fact that there is no real food for miles, the car broke down after hitting a giant pothole, you're too late for work to go buy a sandwich, so you drink the Kool-aid, literally. I would say several, but truly there have been many echoes and reverberations of this throughout our development as a "civilization". The reason poor exist today is not because they are lazy, shiftless or without morality, it is because there is a line of suits with their hands in our pockets!
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| The more things change, the more they remain the same! |
The way we take back our power is to get out of debt, stop buying their charade, re-green food deserts, fully implement the spirit of the laws that led to the end of many monopolies and graft, redouble our efforts to achieve what the Clean Air and Water Acts intended, and to stop passing the buck. The circle of fools is delusional with their own wealth, even though it is all stolen from us, they think it is made by their toil or intelligence, or in the cast of the current American President to be the Divine Right of Kings!
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