I've kinda had it with all of the BS

[davidthegnome]

35. A conclusion long ago reached.

There are times, Manny, when I sit up and think to myself... "Okay, let's do something about this! Let's organize, let's protest, let's shut down business as usual... strike, something!" Then I try to talk to people about it, to organize some kind of effort, heck, even to get people to agree that we SHOULD do something. Thus far, I have met with absolute failure on every such occasion. It's not because people don't care, or because they're not angry and frustrated...

It's because most of the people I know are working too damn hard for too damn little, but if they stop, even for a short time, most of them will lose what little they have.

In the sixties, I think people didn't have as many comforts, as many technological toys - outlets for expression like the internet. So a bunch of the brightest and most compassionate got together to change the world, the only way it can be changed - by forming up together in large groups and taking action. Today, the best and brightest among us rant on facebook, on DU, maybe we write about it in college essays. Maybe we argue with Republicans or take part in get out of the vote campaigns.

The simple truth is that the 1% won. Perhaps one day we can take back this Nation from the corporations, the lobbyists, the disgusting bastards that keep looking for new and interesting ways in which to take what we have and give nothing back. For now though... I do not expect very much. It is hard enough simply to survive.

Perhaps when the economy truly crashes, and larger numbers of people end up homeless, unemployed and starving... perhaps then we'll all be angry enough to do something that might make a difference. But not yet, I don't think.