No Action

Sometimes, when playing the craps table in Vegas, someone will plop down a two buck bet and the dealer will say “no action”., obviously meaning that two bucks is like, weak ass bullshit. I know because it’s happened to me.

That seems to be the situation regarding any type of citizen’s movement against the ruling class or whatever you want to call the rich and powerful that control everything, including our lives.  No action.  Most of those that are amenable to paying attention, or able to, are largely focused on the next election, as usual, and as guided by the ruling class media and our political un-representatives.  The follow the proverbial bouncing red ball.  There is no force building for revolution, in fact, the progressive left actively works against revolutionary tactics and goals.  I’ve seen it up close and personal with the Sanders and Gabbard supporters who routinely rail against revolution as too impractical, too violent, and too radical.  They seem to understand that a revolution is necessary because without it, nothing will really change.  But they can’t bring themselves to even support the idea because well, Gabbard and Sanders are running and Sanders can beat Trump and Gabbard can change the conversation about war and maybe, just maybe the democratic party can be reformed after all.  Eugene Debs and W.E.B. Dubois were wrong!

It’s kind of funny but extremely depressing because there are so many who know the basic situation but they can’t put it all together.  They can’t help themselves but to get caught up in the daily oligarchy controlled agenda instead of focusing on ways to end rule by the rich. 

Maybe that’s just human nature because haven’t the rich always ruled?

The thing that sticks with me is the fact that the national elections for president involve, at last election, at least. 130 million citizens, thereby proving that it’s possible to get a very large number of people involved in the political process.  In actuality that’s only a little over half of the voting eligible public, but it’s a lot of people. So, if THAT can be organized, why can’t something else major be organized, like a direct challenge to the duopoly political system? 

I don’t know, it depends on how you think.  I caught this commercial on tv tonight and it was a state government issued alert that in order to fly in 2020 (can’t remember the month), your current driver’s license won’t do the trick.  You’ll need a driver’s license Supremo Deluxe or a passport.  If you don’t have one, even if you have a birth certificate proving that you are a legal citizen of the United States, even if you have a DD-214 proving that you served your fucking country during the fucking Vietnam war and almost fucking died doing it, even if you get on your fucking knees and beg to the Lord Almighty and Donald Trump himself, you can’t fucking fly.  Not even to Des Moines. 

You tell me, is that freedom?  Is that liberty?  Is that the human right for the “pursuit of happiness”?  Well like I said, it depends on how you think.  It’s a proven fact that most people are authoritarians, people who would just as soon support Donald Trump or Tulsi Gabbard or Bernard Sanders than be free.  They would just as soon that one of those fuckers make all the decisions for the 330 million of us so we can stare at our damn cell phones.   So I guess I and others like me got the short end of the stick. 

AA