People don't Matter and Neither do you
Posted on May 11, 2011 with 0 comments
Too many of us are aware but in denial of what Citizens United actually meant. Too many of us are aware but in denial of what the Comcast-NBC merger actually meant. We hear these stories about our rights as individuals being given away to corporations but we lie to ourselves because we don’t want to believe the effect it will have on our lives... Guess what? It affects us all, you aren’t special. Neither am I.
We know that these things are problems but we rarely do anything notable. And even in Wisconsin where hundreds of thousands have mobilized to fight the bullshit Scott Walker and his buddies threw at them, it is not reported or not reported well because the men with the money who own the news stations only want you to know so much.
The President is aware of this. Congress is aware of this. Their paychecks however are too good to do anything about it. Corporations matter, people don’t
So where does that leave us? In the shitter unless we wake up. Run for office in your town. Even if it seems like you are running for a bullshit office that doesn’t matter, do it. Run, even if you lose, make the point. fuck the rules. fuck the games. We can’t live like this. Do something. Do anything. March naked down Pennsylvania Ave. till they put you on the news then scream about the Koch brothers and fascism while the police drag you away.
Buy billboard space. Advertise against not only conservative candidates (who are merely puppets of the corporations) but advertise against the Koch brothers, and Karl Rove and Americans for Prosperity, and the Chamber of Commerce, because I promise you these greedy sons-of-bitches are trying to eat your lunch, my lunch and your hospitalized mother’s lunch and they will stop at nothing until they succeed. America needs to wake up and stop at nothing to fight back and win.
Compromise only gets you so far when you continue to concede and concede and concede... Eventually you have no more bargaining chips and you end up with nothing gained from whomever you are bargaining with... That leaves you as a fucking moron.
I’m ranting, I’m drunk, but I am pissed and you should be too because we don't matter. Our 'rights' have been given to the corporations which means they have more say because they have more money. The consequence of this is Fascism, by Mussolini's definition, not the definition you find on wikipedia. Fascism as in the merge of corporate and state... This leads to third world America and I want no part of it and neither do you.
We know that these things are problems but we rarely do anything notable. And even in Wisconsin where hundreds of thousands have mobilized to fight the bullshit Scott Walker and his buddies threw at them, it is not reported or not reported well because the men with the money who own the news stations only want you to know so much.
The President is aware of this. Congress is aware of this. Their paychecks however are too good to do anything about it. Corporations matter, people don’t
So where does that leave us? In the shitter unless we wake up. Run for office in your town. Even if it seems like you are running for a bullshit office that doesn’t matter, do it. Run, even if you lose, make the point. fuck the rules. fuck the games. We can’t live like this. Do something. Do anything. March naked down Pennsylvania Ave. till they put you on the news then scream about the Koch brothers and fascism while the police drag you away.
Buy billboard space. Advertise against not only conservative candidates (who are merely puppets of the corporations) but advertise against the Koch brothers, and Karl Rove and Americans for Prosperity, and the Chamber of Commerce, because I promise you these greedy sons-of-bitches are trying to eat your lunch, my lunch and your hospitalized mother’s lunch and they will stop at nothing until they succeed. America needs to wake up and stop at nothing to fight back and win.
Compromise only gets you so far when you continue to concede and concede and concede... Eventually you have no more bargaining chips and you end up with nothing gained from whomever you are bargaining with... That leaves you as a fucking moron.
I’m ranting, I’m drunk, but I am pissed and you should be too because we don't matter. Our 'rights' have been given to the corporations which means they have more say because they have more money. The consequence of this is Fascism, by Mussolini's definition, not the definition you find on wikipedia. Fascism as in the merge of corporate and state... This leads to third world America and I want no part of it and neither do you.