It's over. We screwed up again, and it was our last chance.
Although this shaky coalition of people who logged onto computers at the birth of the user-friendly internet were able to have a sort of symbolic impact, we obviously really didn't do much. It was all a show. They were in control from the beginning, and it worked out just as they planned. This was all about selling software and computers, collecting donations on the internet, and sucking the last few available dollars away from ignorant losers. It always will be that way. Nothing is going to change.
Now that it is clear, it is time for us all to say our goodbyes and follow the separate paths that our socioeconomic statuses dictate for us.
Those who are stakeholders in the economy, who have a clear workable plan for a future, can join the Republicans or whatever mutation of them comes out of this new system. They can get some type of health care plan and retirement. They can go back to a rediscovery of conservative values and worship of markets.
Those of us who are hopelessly behind the power curve are going to have to take a tack that will not be interesting to people who have enough money to participate in the system.
On health care, the answer is no. They aren't going to let us have. They are going to stick to their guns that it is a commodity rather than a right. If you have yours, that's good enough for everybody. That is their model, and they are going to win.
Those of us who live in a financial stratum which is separated from those clinging to the middle class by distances measured in astronomical units have a new problem and a new set of questions to grapple with.
My take is that we have to start looking at health differently. We aren't in the club, and we aren't going to benefit from traditional government regulated science based medicine. It costs more for me to walk into a hospital than I earn in three months, and it is time that I face the fact that corporate-government-science based medical technology is something I can't have.
The question is, if I can't have that, then I think the Constitution allows me to have what I can afford. I should be able to get drugs to kill my pain. I should be able to use whatever is available to make me feel better as I die.
The neo-capitalist meritocracy bunch are going to get their way. People like myself, as they see it, are being deselected in their grand social Darwinistic scheme.
My questions is this. If we are to be left to die, then is it also morally imperative to your Darwinistic reasoning that we physically suffer? Is the agony on the part of those who lost the football game really needed to help prop up the and accentuate the happiness and euphoria of those who are winning?
I say not. You do not need to see me suffer to enjoy your wealth and privilege. Your goodies should be just as enjoyable if I am put down humanely.
Legalization of marijuana for those who suffer and are not worth medical attention is a good start. But we also deserve more powerful pain treating drugs as our health deteriorates.
Pain treating drugs are not expensive. They do not take away from the winner's victory. Allow us to experiment with natural medicines, and allow us to have the basic treatments for pain that have been available to people prior to the beginning of corporate prohibition in the early 20th century.
This is the last few seconds of the fourth quarter. The winners are in. The game is up. Surely meritocratists can muster the humanity to allow palliative care for those whose assets and potential they have acquired and who they are now planning to dispose of?
Do you really need our suffering to enjoy your victory? I think you could find other ways to fill that void and enjoy your fortune.
Legalize marijuana. Legalize opioids. Let people grow poppies. Let people who can't join in the party of the future have the same palliative treatment and humane demise that have been available since long before the industrial revolution. Our pain does not improve the value of your 401k.
I'm ready to go. You can have the money. But wouldn't you like your legacy to involve some color of humanitarianism -- especially if it is free? It isn't hard or expensive to let people die humanely. It won't cost you much.