Calling or writing isn't enough. They know what we think.

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62. This Is One of the Best Posts I've Ever Read on DU.

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Exactly right: "Our government is purchased by a monied elite. They have an agenda in mind that will make them trillions of dollars, and their goal is to keep us as quiet and passive as possible while they implement it.

They are not interested in hearing what we think . . ."

Here's the other problem: Roughly a third of the population is actively hostile and/or indifferent to social-democratic causes and initiatives, another third is so blinded by Obama-worship (He's a nice guy! He's a black man! He speaks well! --all true but irrelevant to advancing a revolutionary agenda) that they refuse to acknowledge his center-right politics and proclivities, the remaining third is so fractionalized and intra-combative that they spend more time fighting amongst themselves them unifying to throw their bodies on the gears of the machine.

So what's the answer?

I wish I knew.

(Those of you in an optimistic, pleasant state of mind stop reading now.)

In my darkest moments I think: It's too late. The country has been strip-mined of its industry, seen its intellectual class neutered and broken on the twin altars of political correctness and access to power, had its stolen wealth concentrated in ever-increasing proportion amongst the plutocratic oligarchs raping the republic. The majority of the country is either woefully ignorant or actively stupid when it comes to educating itself about the causes that have sent us into an economic tailspin. (Thank you, right-wing radio!) Meanwhile, poverty, disease, hunger and gun violence march on unabated while scientific and cultural literacy decrease along with union membership, book reading (the average American doesn't get through a book a year and reads at a 6th-7th grade level), cogent conversation and substantive, systemic change.

So in my darkest moments I think: The only options left are either (1) violent revolution or (2) suicide as public protest/lurid theater, ala lotus-position monks immolating themselves on the steps of government buildings or in the middle of city streets. That's what I really f-ing think, in my darkest, despairing, most angry moments.

Since option #2 is ethically repugnant (unless you are suffering unbearable physical pain with no hope of improvement) and option #1 fills me with terror and dread (given the sanguinary body counts, out-of-control excesses and pain and suffering inflicted on all parties trapped in a revolutionary milieu) I throw up my hands and say: Eat. Drink. Fuck. Die.

Nihilism is all we have left now--or so I think--in my darkest, most angry, despairing moments. Of which this is one. (Obviously, eh? Heh!)

If those in Washington truly knew how the hyper-stressed and perennially-attacked middle- and working-classes of this country felt in 2013 they would tremble, tremble.