Posted by Smalls at syr-24-24-14-133.twcny.rr.com on November 06, 2002 at 19:49:34:
In Reply to: What's wrong with being conservative? posted by Donnacha on November 06, 2002 at 18:55:19:
"If I give everything to the priests and the businessmen and the soldiers... and take my own paltry tax dollars away from health care and education so that I can buy an extra stick of gum a week... of COURSE the rich guys will be nice to me and NEVER try to make even MORE money by going to Mexico..."
He's how it goes. Everyone wants to be rich... so everyone tries to set up the world so that if you get rich, you're gonna get even richer. Problem is, you're probably never going to be rich, except if you were born with it or are in the right place at the right time. And all the people that the media makes famous are rich and of course, we wanna be nice to our heroes so...
It's a Stockholm Syndrome, we grow to sympathize with our captors and love what they want more than what we need.
We're all Uncle Toms. We think that we're one lottery ticket, one stock option, one trickledown away from being like The Beautiful People... and most of us never will. Stocks are a scam, lottery's a scam that at least posts its own odds and trickledowns get spent on yachts not jobs.
Until we realize that the responsibility of the individual politicially is to set up a system that protects the vast majority of the people economically, medically and educationally instead of keeping the deck stacked in case we accidentally become rich, we are all fucked.
One man, one vote. One million dollars, one million votes.
Hopefully we can hold on to enough of our rights through the next two years to be able to come together and vote these goddamn fascists out in '04.
And not for useless asshole spoilers like Nader, either! Good ol' lesser-of-two-evil cats like Gore who can't change the world but will at least make it livable.
The Norse are right, the bad guys will win in the end and all the good guys can do is hold off Ragnarok for another generation.
So hopefully things'll be so bad in two years that we'll be Norse again. And not slaves.
Mike