Oil oil oil oil oil oil..............killing the soil and poisoning the food......Banks...banks...banks....diluted heath care reform....racial hate put into state laws.....turning our education system into a religious propaganda machine.....taking away the possibility of having free open elections.....a news media owned by the perps.....need I go on? I hope you get the point. We are a nation of sheep. We have no government and no leaders. We have the man behind the curtain, that is all! Am I ranting? I think not. I am recoiling in disgust at what we have become. Another election coming in November. Get out there and work and contribute and think you have done something. How much more evidence do you need? When will it be enough? These elections and the other political theater that works so well to narcotize us. We eat it one repressive gulp after the other. It is time for a people to rise up as a group of humans and say "ENOUGH". Read on and I'll make a modest proposal.
Go ahead and spend your resources and energy on the coming election. Then after it is over we can do this again. I have another idea. Let us begin to organize a general strike. This will be a monumental task in a nation so completely fragmented. It will take building solidarity among different groups. It will take the realization that we are not a people. It will take a goal we all can unite for. I have a goal worth doing that for. It is called "survival".
We are dying step by step. We are in denial of the worst kind. We are reaping the natural outcome of greed and power run wild. It has blinded even the best of our analysts. I read and I search but they are all playing the losing game.
When has our so called government last come out on the plus side if you count real actions against stalling, gridlock, propaganda mongering, etc? This is only possible because the government does not run the country. If it did it would be very busy doing constructive things to unite us to get the job of surviving done.
Here is what we need:-
sustainable agriculture done without petroleum based fertilizers and the transport of food long distances
single payer health care
the production of medicines and medical equipment controlled by people's needs not profit
mass transportation organized so that travel is a community priority not a personal fetish
schools that teach people to do what we need to do to achieve a functional society
a financial system that is there solely to promote people's welfare and protect their resources
drastic reductions of energy consumption and an immediate restriction on the use of petroleum until it can be phased out
There is much much more and I only list these things as examples. The real list needs to be done collectively. The act of doing it will set a process into motion that is the real goal, not the list. Such a list generating process only makes sense if we get together to do it. That getting together will be a tremendous source of power.
A word of caution. If we were ever able to empower our people like this we would strip away the curtain and the beast would be revealed. It is ugly and ruthless. It will fight and ravage until it is destroyed.