A Change Is Gonna Come!

[Garion_55]

IT has to!

We cant just leave shit like this.

The rich getting richer. The poor getting poorer. Black men by the millions being locked up stagnating their progress as a race.

Cops killing dogs.

CEOs raping our country.

Corporations raping our planet.

WE NEED CHANGE!


it cant stay like this.

I wont accept that.

[newfie11]

1. Agreed

I just hope it's an improvement and not worse.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. There'll be NO "Change" out of Washington DC, (D) or (R), that you'll ever want. Guaranteed.

The Banks Own The Place, and by logical extension, they must also own both political parties

[tridim]

3. That is a load of defeatist crap. nt

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Not defeatist.

Realist.

The change can come, but it has to come from the people, not from DC.

[TheMick]

9. What an individual can do is.....

....to change his own life. Imagine if everyone went out and made an effort to improve his or her own life.
Imagine a country where people THOUGHT first and ACTED later. No drug or alcohol abuse, no unwed
pregnancies, no crime, etc. Imagine a country where people who created babies actually took care of them,
nurtured them and taught them how to be good, honest citizens. Then we would have a much better country.

[Curmudgeoness]

16. That is dreaming.

I wish. But we have to do more that hope for Utopia. We have to keep talking to people, especially the people who either do not agree with our worldview, or specifically people who are apathetic. Wishing and hoping that people will become better human beings on their own will do no good.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

18. You do realize that with every purchase you make

you are voting with your dollars, it may not seem like much, but added together it becomes huge.

[alfredo]

22. We should learn from French farmers.

[ReRe]

23. If you mean...

... French dairy farmers? Absolutely!

[alfredo]

30. Fuck with us, we'll shut down the country.

[ReRe]

32. Sadly, that's not true with American farmers...

... but in France, a few years ago, the dairy farmers filled up their big shiny milk tankers, drove them to a big field, parked them in wagon-train fashion in a circle, and spilled out all of the milk! It was a sight to see.

[alfredo]

33. I'm talking about American workers taking a hint from French farmers.

We need to take back the power that was taken from us by the Capitalist and their punks in DC.

[ReRe]

34. Absolutely!

[alfredo]

35. We also need to engage in peaceful non compliance.

[tridim]

13. You have given up. Defeated.

It's pathetic.

[Curmudgeoness]

17. No, I have not.

But I do not have faith in the politicians to make the changes we need. There is a difference between giving up and working for change in other areas instead of pinning all our hopes on a few people.

[nikto]

5. Yeah...

The forces of Progressivism and democratic reform are so strong and
resurgent right now.

[tridim]

14. Yes they are.

The Republicans are obstructing all of it.

[Fred Sanders]

7. It is defeatist, by definition. "Give up, there is nothing we can do", it fits the definition.

[tridim]

15. It's a worthless attitude and it pisses me off. Democrats don't give up. Period. nt

[cer7711]

10. I Understand Your Cynicism, BUT . . .

. . . consider these three names:

Elizabeth Warren
Alan Grayson
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A senator, a representative and a Supreme Court judge.

Would you like them to wake up tomorrow and say, "F--k it; I'm packing it in. It's hopeless." And step aside for lesser lights to take their place?

As I said, I understand your cynicism. And the anger and despair that fuels it. God knows the system does it's level best to inculcate a sense of learned helplessness in us all; it's what the 1%--and their lick-spittle lackeys--want.

But if those three fighters are still in there mixing it up with all manner of trolls, plutocratic scumbags and right-wing bully-boys, don't you feel there might just be the merest sliver of hope remaining for the working and middle classes of this country (in league with enlightened aristocrats--let's call them what they are, eh?) to right myriad wrongs before a second American revolution becomes necessary?

I certainly hope so. Because the alternative is too horrifying to contemplate . . .

[swilton]

28. Those few exceptions that you enumerate

are paraded out on occasion to titillate the masses.

But like rotten apples, they will eventually be eliminated for fear that they spoil the barrel. Just look at Dennis Kucinich as a case study.

[cer7711]

31. Scientifically-speaking, an example of one . . .

. . . proves nothing.

But I do take your point. I'm inclined to agree with you: The system drifts ever-rightward, enriching plutocrats and the corporate masters they serve at the expense of everyone else. Our 1% overlords care nothing of Cicero's "concordia ordinum" (harmony of the classes); they play the socio-economic/poli-sci game the only way they know how: as a brutal, zero-sum exercise in social Darwinism.

Yet I need to remind myself, if no one else: There are good, decent people in all walks of life battling this ever-increasing concentration of wealth among our elite, fighting the good fight to ensure that at least a record of resistance is written into history before it all collapses in blood and fire--again.

[nikto]

37. In this entire thread...

I like this response best. (#31)

[840high]

21. Sadly agree.

[swilton]

29. +++++

[AverageJoe90]

36. With all due respect, B.M.M., I'm not sure we can afford that kind of thinking.....

whether it's related to politics, or climate change, etc.

[Uncle Joe]

6. "Never believe"

Thanks for the thread, Garion.

[ReRe]

24. ^^^^^This^^^^^

[rurallib]

8. I can almost smell it in the air.

[pansypoo53219]

11. the MEdia is colluding w/ the 2% + the GOP/tinkle down.

[GeorgeGist]

12. How we gonna know?

[kardonb]

19. change

throughout history , change has been a constant , otherwise , we would still live in caves .

As long as change is achieved through peaceful means , its progress . Violence is mostly harmful .

[humbled_opinion]

20. Policies and Programs

Have to work, if things were working and the people felt it then it would be all good.... Problem is stuff just isn't going good anywhere here at home or in the world... Sad really....

[historylovr]

25. I'm recc'ing because I love Sam Cooke.

But I'm not so optimistic about anything changing for the better.

[swilton]

27. Agreed

[swilton]

26. Saddens me deeply to that this is so appropriate

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