Robert Scheer writes: "A 'working class hero,' John Lennon told us in his song of that title, 'is something to be/ Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV/ And you think you're so clever and classless and free/ But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.' The delusion of a classless America in which opportunity is equally distributed is the most effective deception perpetrated by the moneyed elite that controls all the key levers of power in what passes for our democracy."
Worker-protesters marching to the Wisconsin State Capitol, 02/26/11. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Anyone who supports either party is complicit in their crimes against the people. Organize, vote for a minor party, to send a warning that we are no longer captive to the message of the Reps or Dems. Then re-organize in your communities, begin with a list of resources available, stop paying all nationalized bills (mortgages, insurance premiums to life, car, or health insurers, credit cards) move your money to local credit unions. Actively work with your local sherrif or police department, shop locally, and start your garden now. We can starve the beast if we work together. The longer we wait, the greater the oppression.
Its rather simple. Remember the squirts who used to promote themselves to 'class president' in high school? Did they seem particularly god-like or post-Olympian to you at the time? Did they seem eternally above succombing to the well-crafted and persistent dreams & schemes of "the captains of finance, their lobbyists, and allies among leading politicians of both parties"? Probably not.
Its rather simple. THEY (elected politicians) have succumbed. They (Republicans & Democrats) have left us. It is just common sense that we should therefore complete the break by leaving them- that is if we're not "Stockholm Syndrome" of abused women and children.
We don't need John Lennon to tell us the game (and its players) is rigged- though it is a nice and wise song. We ALL (despite their efforts) have that voice within us, somewhere- some closer to the top than others. Let it be. Who cares what (abjectly) brainwashed people think? They'll come around eventually (ok for some, maybe the next lifetime).
" I’m sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics. All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth. I’ve had enough of reading things. By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians. All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth"
When significant portion of a nation's wealth is taken out of general circulation. That wealth loses its ability to generate general growth. And as that circulationg population gets smaller, the ability for growth generation shrinks.
Other than Bernie Sanders, can someone give me the truth?
"The last time He came, He was nailed to a cross. This time He cannot yet be found, but that does not mean He is afraid. “I cannot be destroyed”, the Master has told the politicians. “My army is everywhere, in every nation and individual, for I am in the hearts of one and all.”"
- World Teacher Maitreya through an associate as reported in Share International
"The Rich and the Super Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today" by Ferdinand Lundberg. This meticulously researched and sourced work is as relevant today as it was when published in the late 1960s.
Don't get hung up in the myriad details, look for the patterns of control.
Savvy up!!
They won't even speak up. They just--I'm so sorry to mention this -- whine. Let's be honest, most don't give a rat’s ass when people whine about anything. So pick a new tactic.
Try this: Reach down in your ancestral soul and grab some courage. Every one of you had courageous ancestors. Their courage took them through wars, plagues, slavery, and Lord knows what else and they survived and even raised kids who survived.
So quit whining and stand up and speak out, or shut the hell up. If you are not brave enough to enter the ring and throw some punches quit whining about the likely outcome of the fight.
So what you are saying is that this whole mess is the Democrats fault?
Tell me, what planet were you living on between 2000 and 2009?
2009 is when Obama inherited the mess Bush and Cheney made. Bush even made the comment that it will be up to the next president to get this country out of the mess bush made.
bora; there are not enough taxes in the world to pay for our gov't and the all the goodiesd it promises as bait to stay in power
let them go, then! most of us are sick of their cr*p already ... and if they DO move to Bora Bora, they should give up their American citizenship, too!!!
The wealthy know exactly how to deal, and yes, they would head for the hills if threatened with taxes.
Mad as hell but frustrated as to an avenue of rebellion.
As for me...most of my money is now in a credit union, I am paying off my credit cards with the goal of not having any. I have participated in 3 protest marches in the last month. I have gotten others to do the same and have gotten still others, usually uninformed and uncaring people, interested and paying attention. I boycott certain items. Not much, but I'm willing to do more. I engage anyone, that will listen, in conversation about our plight and what we have to do to change it. And, to make myself feel even better, I whine as well.
If anyone has some more idea's, I'm listening.
Yes of course, exept for one point. The GOLD STANDARD is easily rigged (perhaps even more easily than 'Federal' Reserve [Cartel] fiat), by those who simple control the quantity of it. It would be the same game (unaccountable financial power dominating society) with a different color (gold instead of green) for "Simon Says."
Someone has to control the QUANTITY of money in society. The question is should they be accountable or unaccountable? Accountable means "public", and I think we should start getting used to that idea.
VOTE BOEHNER AND THE TEA PARTY OUT OF OFFICE,
"and the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was sent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on."
Historically it seems the young (particularly college students and African Americans) had to lead or be the focal point for a movement to take hold of a country. Is there a youth movement willing to step to the forefront.? If there is I haven't seen it. I suspect most article responders here and at similar sites are mostly 45-70 years old. Are we going to lead this revolt?
Revolts mixed bag
Revolutions win (real and lasting change/improvem ents); this is mostly because they have well thought out ideas.
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