âProgressiveâ anything is just a word anymore, unless itâs backed-up with ânon-corporateâ. Sanders, Grijalva and a handful of others in Congress are courageous enough to do so; since the consequence means a drastic slash to campaign donations.
âBig moneyâ, now gets votes, because âpersonhoodâ was sanctioned by the corporate majority of our esteemed, now politicized, SCOTUS, thanks to the Bush-Cheney neo-con, trans-nationalists.
Any politician running as a so-called âprogressiveâ (or accepting of this label, without claiming it) will be forced into a repeat of the same old habit of âhand-wringingâ and apologizing to us constituents, overtime, because they canât fulfill their campaign promises; so, blame the âother sideâ? Tired of this? I am. Since August, 1969, I awoke from some âunknownâ (later to be known as propaganda) force holding me down. I met others my age, who had attended an âOccupy Eventâ, called Woodstock. My Cleveland upbringing was stood on its head when I compared their recount of events to the negative press from the Nixon forces (But I did love Walter Cronkiteâs take!) lol
We, who place one promising candidate after promising candidate, into public office, without fail, ALWAYS get shafted. lol Since Reagan and before, once in office, our candidate, these days, soon bows to the neo-con agenda of austerity and militarization of police at home and then continues on with, like President Obama, the âcorporate empire agendaâ - to placate corporate funders. (And Mother Earth, our progenitor, dies some more.)
So, come on you Millennials and Gen-Xers out there! Take up the challenge, now, from yours truly, a crippled-up olâ geezer Woodstocker! Call these âturncoatsâ out, who use tired, recycled, obfuscating language, rather than use words that have true meaning and power. Think about what âtheyâ say.
Like these Great Thinkers of our time, who paved your way out of a propagandized hypnosis: Joseph Campbell - "The Power of Myth"and this enduring mantra: âFollow your blissâ; Howard Zinn - Historian (of the People of Peace and Clarity - my words); Noam Chomsky - Linguist, who gets the language thing, big time! And still is with us!
So, just like the new, courageous and vigilant citizens who MUST now, video every move of our civilian police, to protect our Liberty and Justice for All - REAL WORDS! Let us provoke a more respectful approach to what words - like âClimate Justiceâ mean and similar ones that cannot be spun into meaningless slogans. Thanks! Rock-n-Roll will never die! Baybeeeeee!!