Did I piss you off yesterday? Good. I’m happy about that.
Are you mad for the right reasons? Was it because I used “salty language”?
Was it because I called the Left a bunch of pussies? Or in my haste because I wasn’t quite PC enough for your precious ears?
It’s about damn time someone called all of us out, each and everyone of us within the community. Because if you’re not fucking outraged right now, at the coming storm, well then it’s already too late.
Watching the comments on my submission devolve into anger over my choice of words simply cemented the point I was making.
Liberals and the Left get their panties in a twist over the semantics of words yet ignore the actions of reality. Here’s the reality folks. A minority of Americans have elected an orange carnival barking corporatist conman on the coattails of racists (if you don’t stand against them, then you stand with them) who is now lining up a cast of villains hell bent on destroying everything the progressive agenda has ever stood for. And guess what we’re the losers.
It’s long past time for you to get mad. It’s time for you to put your big boy/girl pants on, suck it up and get ready for the fight of your life. Or you can do what it is you always do and have always done. Devolve into mob of dithering crybabies with “tender sensibilities” and separate agendas.
“We have a long history of showing up at knife fights armed with sternly worded letters, which have gone through multiple committees and been thoroughly vetted to ensure that no one's tender sensibilities have been offended, not even the recipients. Afterward, we lick our wounds and take solace in the fact that we fought the good fight, and that we are better than them. Meanwhile, they have eaten our lunch. Again.” - itsjim
I’ve got sharp elbows and big feet and dammit I’m going to make some room for my 6’2” frame in this mob. If I step on your toes or poke you in the ribs then you better move over brother because this is where I’m standing, right here in the community I belong in. I’m standing with you and I am ready for this fight and I need YOU to toughen up and get mad. I’m not a fucking loser, I’m a pit bull and I'm mad as hell....
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell:
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.
I tossed out some ideas yesterday, on how to obstruct the coming storm and by no means is it a recipe or is it even the right approach. But it is a starting point. A rallying cry. We are at war people! The point is that we must resist, we must stand up and fight. Now anger and fighting does NOT mean violence. The good Dr. King showed us the way, as have our Native American brothers and sisters in Standing Rock. But every tool must be at our disposal whether it’s direct marches or sit-ins or phone calls or even just simple mass organized trolling. But rest assured that they WILL fight back and it won’t be pretty. This will be a dirty and prolonged war with the most unscrupulous bunch of villains the planet has ever seen. So either step up or get the hell out of the way.
Here’s the most important part. This must be organized and focused on a single agenda. To shut down the GOP and minority President and their policies at every single turn. I was part of the Occupy Movement and it started out with an amazing spirit; but then, like all things that are Left and Progressive, it devolved into conglomeration of PC pet causes. All we wanted, to start with, was to get the money out of politics and give a voice to the people. By the time it collapsed, people were pushing for free weed and cage-free-range tofu vegan lunches for disaffected inner city school children.
That anger that drove OWS is the same anger that drove people to vote for the orange con-artist. It is real, it is palpable, it is on the minds and the tongues of almost every single person in the United States. We’re all desperately groping in the dark for a hero to lead the fucking way and bring America back from the grips of corporate oligarchy. That’s the anger we ALL feel today. Everyone.
Whoever the hero is, it’s certainly not him. It’s damn well not Chuck or Nancy or the DNC or even Bernie Sanders or anyone else in Washington. It’s you. It’s me. And we all better get off our PC high horses roll our sleeves up and get in this fight. Today. Now. It’s not too late.
We need to get organized first and foremost; and I’m not the one to do that. I’ll step on toes and I honestly don’t care enough to temper my passion for a wider audience. But we, as a community, must get organized around this single cause, we must build our weapons and we must align our forces nationwide into a fighting force to be reckoned with. Then we must ensure that those who claim to represent us in Washington, know for whom it is they work for and what we are demanding of them that must be done. The rest will fall into place.
There is no other cause, but this cause. There is no other fight but this fight. This is the fight of our generation and one that we were born for. You can forget your pet cause for today, because if we lose this fight, your pet cause in the future will simply be surviving. And it certainly wont matter to my children or grandchildren who don’t have food or jobs or inalienable rights or even an inhabitable planet.
Now go get your shit together people. Stop acting like a whiny bunch of losers and stand up for what you believe in. Don’t tell me. Show me.