From my clear mountain view I see a new game. People come here looking for refuge from crowded polluted cities and electromagnetic frequencies (EMF’s) and Fukushima radiated salmon that are making them sick.
Meanwhile the Koch brothers are spending, spending, spending to make the reality of climate change appear to be a myth. Imagine having so much money you could attempt to fool all the people all the time. The Koch brothers are trying to avoid their oil investments becoming worthless.
The Arabs are a little smarter and trying to get ahead of the game. They are selling off their oil at a loss. They don’t have to worry. They have plenty of solar sunshine for sale. There is enough sunshine in the Sahara to power all of Europe.
Wouldn’t it be great if the Koch brothers invested in solar instead of myths? Wouldn’t it be great if they worked with us to deepen democracy instead of against us?
The new game is about the true value of what is important to people: air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat; being able to afford the necessities for a healthy life for your family; feeling safe in your community; being able to educate your children. This is not too much to ask.
The old game has terrible consequences. Pew research tells us that since our Great Recession, black’s net worth is now 1/13 of white’s. Hispanic’s net worth is now 1/10 of whites. When all your wealth is tied up in your home, losing it to corrupt banks is devastating.
There are consequences of having an oppressive governor of Wisconsin and ignorant Southern senators. When young black men from Milwaukee move to where there are jobs, they come back to the drug filled Milwaukee ghetto after discovering they do not have the education to get hired.
A southern Senator said his Mississippi delta school which was rated inadequate was “Good enough for the workers.” One form of perpetual slavery is to have an uneducated populace. Uneducated people create poverty for all. People are our most valuable resource. Such slavery holdover thinking is the reason his beautiful state is one of the poorest in the nation. The new game is valuing the dynamic worth of every person on earth. The new game is investing in our most precious resource – the brilliance of our people.
Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and Gandhi have shown us the way. We marched in Selma to give black people the right to vote. Folks today feel hopeless toward government. A vote seems like a useless thing. A vote like a drop of water may seem of little value, but when votes are gathered together they are mighty. We still have the right to vote. We must use that right and vote damn it Vote.
President Obama said that if the same number of folks came out to vote in the midterm election that voted in the general election, the middle class would be enjoying a solid majority in government instead of being swamped by the worst conservative elements of the GOP.
Ordinary people are the ruling majority in the United States. Don’t let the media separate us into groups. Laborers are beginning to wake up. Women, civil rights advocates and environmentalists need to join the laborers. Stop sleeping during campaigns confusing our own real interests with the selfish and frivolous interests of the rich. We’ve got the majority damn it, we’ve got it! All we have to do is run for office and get out the vote.
UP, UP majority. Vote. Vote! Vote for Democrats! Support Obama in making voting mandatory.