Slavery was that and more, but a generation rose up to handle it. The institutionalized suppression of women was that and more, but a generation rose up to handle it. Segregation was that and more, but a generation rose up to handle it. It’s our turn now.

Our biggest obstacle to changing the world is the belief that it can’t be done. Once you get that that’s simply what they want you to believe, the road opens up before you.

The average American voter is the one taking the biggest hit from the absurd injustice of trickle down economics. The average American voter is also the only one who can rise up and change it. Once you figure out what they’re doing to you, you move from a demoralized “There’s nothing I can do about it” to a convicted and energized “We’re going to change that now.”

A disaster like countries that have those things and have the happiest people in the world?

Capitalism isn’t a switch you turn off and on. The happiest countries where people are thriving the most are hybrid economies. Scandinavia, etc.. It doesn’t legitimize the current power structure to run for office. You disrupt it by gaining levers of power within it. An example, unfortunately, are all the extremist right wing authoritarians gaining power in statehouses around the country.

People are paying too much *now.*… 1) People in other countries who pay more taxes get much much more in exchange for them, therefore spending much less of their own money paying for things such as childcare and healthcare out of their own pockets. Right now, for instance, one in four Americans carry medical debt. Medical debt does not exist where there is universal healthcare. 2) These kinds of changes do not involve more taxes for the middle class, but only for those who earn so much that they wouldn’t even feel it. A righteous person doesn’t want to feel that their ability to create wealth is predicated on other people never getting a chance to.

This is what, in a reasonable world, they call “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Telling people they can’t have things that should be considered their basic rights by scaring them away with the bogeyman phrase “socialism” has been the biggest victory of the proprietors of the new Gilded Age. It’s been a propaganda campaign from the beginning.

It needs to.

The problem there is not that it’s universal care, but that it’s not *enough* care. And in many cases it’s the wrong kind of care, woefully administered. Please let me know if I’m wrong.

America needs a full on economic u-turn, from universal healthcare to tuition free college and tech school to free childcare and paid family and sick leave to a guaranteed livable wage. Those are considered moderate positions in every other advanced democracy - and they should be in ours as well. For the last 50 years, Americans have been conned into believing trickle down lies. Now it’s time for some trickle up truth. 3/3

“…But you don’t think of individuals who take care of special needs kids.” The Mayor of Los Angeles has been in Congress for 11 years and it took the S.E.I.U. strike to make her realize the economic hardships endured by average working Americans. Just knowing the truth in America today is a radicalizing experience. 2/3

“Many of them had incomes so low that they were housing insecure. A number of them were in and out of homelessness.” “When you think of low-wage workers, you don’t think of school employees,” she said. “You think, maybe, of fast food workers...” 1/3 nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/lo…

This is disgusting.

Oh, okay. youtube.com/31PYqzWYgTU

Rosa Parks… Anytime they try to hide her story from our children, we should commit to telling it. She was brave, she was stalwart, and she was kind. She also helped change the world.

I’ll be there!

The human reality in East Palestine… Marianne2024.com