Daily Revolution

There’s a deadly perception in America that keeps us from progress.

The idea that it will never happen to me.

For those who’ve been on the receiving end of tragedy, injustice, or a bounty from fear filled humans masquerading around as hate fueled “radicals”, the persistence to examine discuss and change the way things are is a necessity.

*The Conservatives, New Nazis and Anti-Deniers are not “Radicals” - to be Radical you need to have some type of “new” / “extreme” ideology. These people are basic. Ironically they recall “the good old days”, and with it comes their very basic yet dangerous wants. Their ideology has been at the core of history, the resistance to change. And if any of them took some time to understand these beliefs that have been crushed in multiple wars, maybe they’d be quicker to abandon them. Is it ironic that some of these humans call for a second Civil War - do they not remember or know what happened to the South in the last one? *

But there is a good section of the population and the entirety of Centrists, who because it’s never happened to them or because they don’t believe it could happen to them they are quiet on important societal issues. Or they take on the mantle of victim and impersonate actual social activists.
*If you have been watching the Trucker convoy saga, maybe you recently read the Newsweek story featuring one of the convoy leaders who gave up the cause, quit organizing and went home after ONE NIGHT IN JAIL! Imagine if ONE NIGHT IN JAIL was all it took for Martin Luther King Jr quit!!! These folks are far from radicals, activists, or revolutionaries. They are people getting in the way of The Peoples progress.
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The “Freedom Convoy” organizer didn’t expect or think he’d have to be accountable. This speaks volumes about how privileged some humans are. And we’ve seen this time and time again, the privileged humans believe they have a right to not be accountable.
*Btw a majority of Canadian Truckers are vaccinated and do NOT stand with these anti-intellectuals in their so called Freedumb Convoy.*

This concept of “once it happens to me, everything changes” is a major problem. Thinking only criminals endure police brutality. Or only the lazy become homeless. Or only outcasts become addicts. Or only hard workers get wealthy. Are the great American myths. And they only serve the Corporate Masters of America. Keeping the people divided is how they continue to abuse the system that’s rigged in their favor.

I don’t believe a society that chooses to not protect or help it’s most vulnerable is the best we can do. A society that by choice lets children fall back into poverty and go hungry, is the most success we can achieve. Are the children the future? Or should they too pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Is it survival of the fittest… for kids? The mentality that you’re tough by sacrificing the weak, is just an illusion. Some of the toughest humans who ever walked this planet, were strong because they had compassion. To endure suffering that isn’t yours is a strength most will never know, and should be grateful for it. The only muscle that gives true strength is your heart.

Progressive workplaces, which people consider Starbucks being one, are firing employees who are trying to join together to fight for better work conditions. If these Employers are so progressive why do they fear their employees joining together? Maybe because worker raises may cut into the raise CEO Kevin Johnson gave himself, a 40% raise in his pay from 14 mil to over 20 million last year. All the while, still raising prices and blaming “inflation or supply chain issues”.

Every employee is underpaid. It does not matter what sector you work in - if your not part of the upper management / ownership structured titles, you are underpaid.
Some don’t get this. They invest in the thinking that we are a caste system, just between the very poor, moderately poor, and less poor…. Some egos are so tied to their income they feel threatened by those below them getting paid humanely. So let me repeat….
You are underpaid. No matter what job you have, if you’re an employee, you’re underpaid.

Its now Radical to believe one income should be enough to have shelter, food, and basic necessities. When people brag about working 3 jobs to afford necessities, who are you bragging for the CEOs? Showing them your willingness to accept this failed state. And there’s a lot more people who get to live with parents or have inherited wealth (anything inherited is wealth) so they stay quiet or pretend to be self made. And you’re in the way of progress. We are fighting for people to make it on their own, not living at their parents… but like their parents who could afford to buy a home on one income.

If minimum wage kept up with inflation and worker productivity, instead of 7.25 - it would actually be 25 / hr.
The fight for 15 has been going on for over a DECADE. Everything in society has experienced rising costs / inflation EXCEPT LABOR.
Why is that? Maybe because corporations join together in Corporate Unions to “fund” politicians who will make sure nothing changes for workers… and the CEOs can keep filling their pockets while blaming inflation - which apparently only happens to products, not labor. Odd. We always hear the theory - well if people get paid more expect prices to rise… but have prices stayed the same? No. They rise because of CEOs joining together in a union to raise their salaries, to have golden parachutes giving themselves millions when they are fired or retire, and to conspire to blame all costs on having employees.

The people who stand in the middle on important issues are standing in the way. If someone says something disparaging and you stay silent, no one knows if you’re condoning it or just don’t have the strength to oppose it. But if something nasty is said to you, maybe you’ll respond. And the response does not have to be negative, it can be positive. We can respond to the negative by standing up for ourselves and holding people accountable.
It becomes much easier when we stand together.

Please don’t be someone who has to wait for it to potentially happen to you, for you to compassionately stand with those who suffer.

Maybe people who spend one night in jail then quit, will come to understand real conviction & true injustices. Maybe they’ll come to understand the strength, compassion and suffering of true radicals that lived & died for a cause.

Who knew thatAmerica, Somalia & India are the same when it comes to paid sick leave for employees…. We need to stand together to create change.