A system built to stall/slow progress to retain the levers of power rarely changes from within.
We, Americans, should know this better than most. We’ve grown up with it after all. Propaganda and platitudes are just the smokescreen for the corporate owner classes that own the levers of control.
Reformation always follows a revolutionary time (violent or not). They’re two sides of the same coin.
We’re literally fighting pedophiles and rapists in office (or those who share their ideologies of gaslighting and DARVO.) Do you think they take no for an answer?
We want bike lanes, public transit, better social services, parks, etc. Well, you have 623 pieces of paper to file, 221 meetings, 73 votes to collect…
Meanwhile, look how fast those Flock cameras went up with barely any approval. Look how fast those data centers got approved and built. Closed, backroom deals with no input, or even just mayors outright vetoing the town’s votes. They have the ideology of rapists.
And sitting here with all the reasons against us changes nothing.
I’m proud when they call us radical. Because we’re radically fighting to make people’s lives better. And the political mechanisms in place are designed to stop that. We live under neoliberal capitalism that is supposed to deliver us freedom and democracy. It has many underlying tensions. One is the freedom to grow capital vs the freedom of peoples. Our systems have been built on the freedom to grow capital OVER the freedom of peoples.
So the only way left for us to make change is to be disruptive. To get up and do something. And be willing to sacrifice for the greater good because the system is designed to take from us if we step out of line. It’s designed to protect those with capital over those who deserve justice.
Just do whatever you can. I realize it’s tough, I’m facing the same choices, putting food on the table, making sure my family is safe. But if we do nothing put complain and post online, what will we accomplish? Show your representatives that they should fear you. They are your employee, you pay them. Maybe stop paying them? Look at the war tax resistors for more info on that. Maybe protest in public spaces outside their residences and offices. Be a nuisance. Don’t let them rest. They won’t let you rest while they threaten our neighbors and our lives. And please, people, force some democracy into the workplace. We live most of our lives under these little kings. Force legislators to give us worker protections, amend the god damned constitution to give workers the protected right to strike.
I could go on and on…but vent over. I understand Canadians being frustrated, the world being frustrated, because I’m frustrated with how little Americans have accomplished so far. We’re angry but we’re still going to work and following the rules mostly because we’re still scared. We rely too much on the capitalist machine. Start getting involved locally and building alternatives to the reliance on big corpos as much as possible.
Radical change requires radical action.
A system built to stall/slow progress to retain the levers of power rarely changes from within.
We, Americans, should know this better than most. We’ve grown up with it after all. Propaganda and platitudes are just the smokescreen for the corporate owner classes that own the levers of control.
Reformation always follows a revolutionary time (violent or not). They’re two sides of the same coin.
We’re literally fighting pedophiles and rapists in office (or those who share their ideologies of gaslighting and DARVO.) Do you think they take no for an answer?
We want bike lanes, public transit, better social services, parks, etc. Well, you have 623 pieces of paper to file, 221 meetings, 73 votes to collect…
Meanwhile, look how fast those Flock cameras went up with barely any approval. Look how fast those data centers got approved and built. Closed, backroom deals with no input, or even just mayors outright vetoing the town’s votes. They have the ideology of rapists.
And sitting here with all the reasons against us changes nothing.
I’m proud when they call us radical. Because we’re radically fighting to make people’s lives better. And the political mechanisms in place are designed to stop that. We live under neoliberal capitalism that is supposed to deliver us freedom and democracy. It has many underlying tensions. One is the freedom to grow capital vs the freedom of peoples. Our systems have been built on the freedom to grow capital OVER the freedom of peoples.
So the only way left for us to make change is to be disruptive. To get up and do something. And be willing to sacrifice for the greater good because the system is designed to take from us if we step out of line. It’s designed to protect those with capital over those who deserve justice.
Just do whatever you can. I realize it’s tough, I’m facing the same choices, putting food on the table, making sure my family is safe. But if we do nothing put complain and post online, what will we accomplish? Show your representatives that they should fear you. They are your employee, you pay them. Maybe stop paying them? Look at the war tax resistors for more info on that. Maybe protest in public spaces outside their residences and offices. Be a nuisance. Don’t let them rest. They won’t let you rest while they threaten our neighbors and our lives. And please, people, force some democracy into the workplace. We live most of our lives under these little kings. Force legislators to give us worker protections, amend the god damned constitution to give workers the protected right to strike.
I could go on and on…but vent over. I understand Canadians being frustrated, the world being frustrated, because I’m frustrated with how little Americans have accomplished so far. We’re angry but we’re still going to work and following the rules mostly because we’re still scared. We rely too much on the capitalist machine. Start getting involved locally and building alternatives to the reliance on big corpos as much as possible.