"I pledge no allegiance to the flag of the Corporate States of America, or to the Kleptocracy which stole the land, and plunged our nation into debt, insurmountable, with questionable futures for all." –Bruce Arnold, 19-Nov-2010 http://ironboltbruce.com
Bruce Arnold … record-holding long distance motorcycle rider … disappointed bikers’ rights activist but proud member of The 100 … disillusioned political agitator targeting social injustice and piercing the veil of our two-puppet system to expose the institutionalized greed of the Kleptocracy pulling all strings Left and Right … like Thomas Jefferson, an aficionado of ethnic aesthetic and a philosophical anarchist who accepts the State as a necessary evil under which the best government is less government. Hey Bruce! Welcome to the fray...such that it is. I just have to ask. Doesn't less government automatically mean that the power vacuum created by smaller government will be filled by those greedy corporations that pretty much control everything already? I mean less government, less regulation, more run amok corporations. Just curious to hear your take.
You erroneously assume that power not held by the government will be held by the corporations, as if there were no other alternatives like, oh, say, individual citizens a.k.a. "the People". Perpetually reinforcing that kind of boxed-in binary thinking is how the Kleptocracy keeps the Sheeple convinced that either supporting a Democrat or supporting a Republican are the only two means of expressing political power available to them ... so that their focus stays on the puppets and not the puppet-masters ... who are the same for both parties.
So, your solution is that we need less government and less corporations running our lives. To be fair, I suppose that isn't so much a solution as a goal. You goal is less of the two major evils and you want to replace them with individual citizens. Fair enough, but in my experience, those that have power rarely yield it to those that don't. What's you plan?
First, an apology: I did not make clear to you that BigGov *works* for BigCorp, so any apparent competition between the two is as contrived as Mexican wrestling or American elections. Second, an admission: I have no realistic plan for victory. For to have such, I would need to convert at least 15% of our lambs into lions. And nobody outside of Texas or Tennessee has been able to accomplish that since what we're told was "the Revolution". Third, an appeal: Had not the Spartans at Thermopylae and the Texicans at the Alamo given their lives to the man holding positions that could not be held, this wimpy web forum exchange would never have occured. We all gotta die, son. DIE STANDING UP...
Bruce, I have no doubt that big government works for big corp but the way I see it is that I can always take back my government but I have absolutely no leverage over a private corporation without the power of a government agency enforcing the will of the people. Individuals can't force a multinational do anything. We can stop buying their produces in some cases but less and less are we the prime market and more and more the global market is more important to them. You are also right about the apathy of the average citizen. Most of the people have given up even voting and those that do vote without question are usually those that support the oligarchy. I have always said that you could reanimate Hitler, run him as a Republican, and the Right wing would vote for him over the Democratic candidate if the dems ran God for office. That leaves people that will vote regardless of who the candidate is and those that refuse to vote for anyone. Since this is our only system of deciding who runs things, who is really shooting themselves in the foot? History is full of battles won over long odds but mostly the long odds win and the battles don't stand out in history as much. Ideas are key in winning any battles worth winning. Ideas can't be defeated. What you need is an idea that will not only get those 15% on board but a heck of a lot more. I'd be willing to listen to ideas. Without ideas to rally behind all you have is a tattered flag swinging in the wind.
You ARE Sheeple 1. "I have absolutely no leverage over a private corporation without the power of a government agency enforcing the will of the people." Besides yourself, who are you kidding? Do you think the Fed answers to the Treasury, or the other way around? Do you think think Halliburton answers to the Pentagon, or the other way around? And surely, you don't think Goldman Sachs cares about paying the SEC a $500 million fine when they net billions from their infractions? 2. "Individuals can't force a multinational do anything." You are correct, if you are referring to individual cowards. 3. "I have always said that you could reanimate Hitler, run him as a Republican, and the Right wing would vote for him over the Democratic candidate if the dems ran God for office." You still don't get it, lambkin. At the top, the DEMOCRATS and the REPUBLICANS are controlled by THE SAME KLEPTOCRACY. 4. "I'd be willing to listen to ideas." AND HERE IS ONE FROM ME THAT SORT OF COMMENT IS OUT OF ORDER You are a textbook example of "Sheeple". You are uninformed and spineless, and expect someone else to deal with reality and decide your fate. DON'T WORRY. THEY WILL...
Well thanks anyway. You go ahead and die standing up or complaining or labeling and blaming others in the same situation as you are in until you are blue in the face. We all have the same right to b**ch and complain but changing our fate takes much more. I see no ideas coming from you. You're just another one of those cyber-revolutionaries that the internet seems to have no shortage of. Real change requires, no demands a movement rise up and change the way things are to the way things should be. The problem with people like you is that you are empty vessels waiting for an idea to come along and fill you, any idea, which make you a loose cannon already set to "ready", "shoot", "aim". I'm going to find the guy with ideas. Anger isn't an idea.
Cyber-revolutionary my butt... If you knew anything about my background in bikers rights, you'd know I have no reservations regarding face-to-face confrontations with The Man. And you just keep right on waiting for your Savior to come along: He will. And he'll probably promise something like "Change"...
You ever notice the only people that you see riding around on harleys these days are 50-60 year old men? That should tell you something.
The right to voice opinions. Ah...this is what we are seing here. Its lovely but sometimes can make for a lot of noise no?
