You know that we have their attention because they react to the revolution in one of two ways: disregard or demonization. At first, the establishment (meaning the interests in charge of the media, our political system, and our economy) will try to do everything possible to ignore us, pretending that there is no smoke let alone a fire producing the smoke.
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With the dust now settling from the first set of debates for the hoard of Democratic presidential hopefuls, we are beginning to see the initial reactions to the first debates subside. On debate night, the viewing public and the professional pundit class review the drama-infused question of “who won” by assessing who scored the most perceivable imaginary “points”.
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In the maelstrom of national news it is often too easy to forget that there is more going on than whatever Congress, the President, the Supreme Court, and all the Presidential candidates are doing or saying.
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Regardless of whether the polls show us that Bernie is stomping his competition or getting trounced himself, we expend too much energy on this useless charade produced by the same wealthy interests we are attempting to topple.
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The world is on fire and the Democrats want you to believe that they are the only ones empowered to extinguish the flames. In a bipolar political structure such as what we Americans have been cursed with there is some legitimacy to the claim that we really only have two viable options.
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What is the solution? How do we save ourselves? The truth is that there is no easy answer, because even the simplest explanation of what we must do comes at a price.
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This isn’t something which can be fixed overnight. We are talking about massive and deep wounds which have festered for centuries. It is a long, ongoing – possibly even never-ending – process.
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The great age of automation looms on the horizon and we can either ride this wave together or drown in its undertow.
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Do not be fooled by the temporary good deeds of an executive presenting an act for the cameras. Even if these actions have legitimately positive results for a handful of regular people, the roots of their former predicaments remain and require bold action by the whole.
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With the Democratic Party, they started to abandon their creed of fighting on behalf of the working class when a few corporate-friendly members determined that Reagan won and Bush Senior won because the Democrats were too anti-business, thereby suggesting they were too close to the interests of the working class.
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