I say this sincerely–I have absolutely nothing against writing letters to Your Elected Representatives.
It’s much more than I ever do myself. So I have absolutely no room to talk shit. Flip me off in your mind when I do.
I will say this however.
1) Sending those letters is exactly what the Powers have told us to do all our lives, because …
2) The impact of it is exactly zero, plus a trigger to send out a boilerplate full of rhetoric.
Fortunately, the price to be paid for Participating In Democracy at this level is currently also near zero. So no harm done, to anyone anywhere.
Doing more is a whole hell of a lot of work.
And the more of that work you do, the steeper the price you will pay.
Meaning: If what you do starts to become truly effective, there are literally teams of highly paid goons out there who will use any means at their disposal to destroy you. It’s not paranoia. It’s how Empire works in the modern age.
Not only do your representatives and the shadow people who pay them well not care about you. They honestly don’t give a shit about piles of dead babies that used to go to poor-people public schools–any more than they ever cared about the much bigger piles of little brown babies that the System has stacked up all over the world for decades, in the name of spreading democracy and freedom.
If I may be allowed a small opportunity for prediction …
One of these days, the internal imperial rot is going to get SO bad that one of these incidents occurs, not in a movie theater or a gay nightclub or a public school, but in some place they do care about. A charter school. A private one lingering in a rich suburb outside the beltway. Maybe a private gathering of ‘donors’, like the one where Joe Biden whispered to the rich a promise that “Nothing Will Change” for them, just as Hillary and Barack did before him.
On an airplane. At a world trade center.
Only at that point will anything actually be done.
And you can damn sure bet that whatever it is they finally decide to do, it won’t be for the better, in my life or yours.
When I write up these descriptions of how things actually work, and fail to work, or I watch a video like that and learn more about it, I know it’s not going to do a lot of good either.
How do we root out obscene mountains of billions of dollars and the power that comes with them?
I have not one damn clue.
All I can say is that I am compelled to keep telling what I see.
When I talk about struggling to stop talking politics, what I’m really saying is that I want to SEE something besides politics, and talk about that instead.
The hard part is turning my eyes away from the global and political, and looking seriously at what’s going on in this room, and inside my self.
It’s hard because I’m not entirely convinced it’s right, but …
I do believe that as time goes by, it will more and more right for me.