by Iamwhomiam » Fri May 29, 2020 1:11 am
Rex ~ Please do not think for a moment my understanding of our political system is lacking or that I do not understand just how fixed the game is. How dare you be offended by my fantasy! I see you simply a survivor, not an armband member of the schutzstaffle. In the scenario I posed, I included you with the intellectuals. My point was that the future will be much less free and no - there won't be a revolution. There might be a nuclear war, though. Not between China and the US, but one initiated by either India or Pakistan, and then all hell breaks loose.
The sewing machine suggestion was only meant to provide you, a survivor, with the means to earn a living. Medicines will become a rarity after a war. Life will become a rarity.
Maybe you see our present situation as temporary, I don't know. I see a terrible time ahead and I'm referring to only a year from now. I see the world as changing rapidly changing and not for the better. I'm not sure we'll even have another election. We're far from done with Covid-19. If no immunity is developed after contracting the disease and this bug behaves like the flu and mutates, we'll be right back where we started when the second wave hits. And you know it might just be with us always; an annual plague.
I remember one time you said I want the government to come to my rescue or to fix whatever, and that made me really laugh. I'm a guy who spent his life fighting the government to get breadcrumbs for poor people and to have disability rights recognized as lawful, essentially constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens with disabilities.
Last year our town instituted the strongest air pollution laws in the nation. As a consequence of this, our entire Board was voted out and was replaced by a Republican sweep, and they will surely moot this law. But we're proactive, and have introduced the same legislation at the county level, which, if passed into law, will have the same effect upon one of our state's largest sources of pollution that's located in my town, as our local law would. The cement plant will not be permitted to burn millions of tires annually if the county law passes as we hope it will.
Although I had nothing whatsoever to do with drafting this legislation, my earlier work locally was the proverbial stone in the pond that caused the ripple that crafted the plan and legislation. One other RI member may know of this although I have not spoken to them about it.
The point of that being: I don't expect government to do shit - what I want it to do, I try my best to make it happen, to create the reality I foresee.
Lastly, I see you as one of the good guys, Rex. I would say that about quite of few of RI's contributors, even some I have ideological differences with. No armband for you. The empire is collapsing. I do not seek to reform it; it is utterly corrupt. Capitalism will collapse, maybe not as soon as some think i should, but ultimately, it cannot survive.
I would like to see the abolition of all political parties and lobbying. Institute a limited 6 week campaign.
I have no hope at all that we will change our ways, even though the pandemic has lifted the curtain and more now than ever before are realizing just how fixed the game is.
