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Jul. 15th, 2016 12:19 pmCopied and pasted from FB, where it got two reactions and two comments...
I'm sorry, this is another political post, but I cannot be silent. (Edited for clarification. Never write angry.)
If anyone is in any doubt that Theresa May means this country, or this planet, nothing but harm...if anyone was for one second taken in by the pack of blatant and unrepentant lies she offered in her speech...let that doubt be laid to rest, let the truth drive out deceit. Among the very first decisions she has made is this, the decision to stifle and destroy all the work we had just begun to do to heal our desperately wounded biosphere.
She is not an evil person. There are no evil people. There are evil ideologies, and the ideology that she serves is evil from the rotten core out to the suppurating rind. There are evil actions, and this is the first of many.
THIS. MUST. BE. STOPPED.
We cannot afford to despair. We cannot afford to shrug our shoulders and say "that's just the way it is." We cannot afford not to do whatever we can. They will tell us that we are just a few people, liking and sharing and clicking buttons on the internet, that that never achieves anything. Are they right?
We have global reach here, theoretically. Our words can travel across the country, across the planet. We, those of you reading this and I, we have skills, we have talents, that could be put to use. We have what has long been touted as the ultimate means of communication here. They call us the "twitterati," a demeaning term for permanently outraged middle-class uselessness. Are they right?
We have real cause for outrage here. For decades our political system has been hijacked by a new kind of bourgeoisie, a political class in the pockets of the super-rich and working for them against us. We have known all this time that successive Conservative and "New" Labour governments have accepted donations from the owners of global megacorporations and directed government policy according to their wishes and to our detriment. They openly admit it. Rupert Murdoch made a joke about it. "When I go to Downing Street they do what I say." They think we are powerless against them. Are they right?
I could go out and walk the streets of my home town passing out leaflets and yelling at people in the High Street and achieve nothing. This town will never forsake the Tories. Here, at my keyboard, I can be useful. I can talk to people who are in doubt, whose minds are open. I only need to be aimed in the right direction. I am not alone. *We* are not alone.
I have little to offer, but I have words at my command. Let me do something. If you know of any place where my words can be effective, where they can reach people who need to be reached, tell me where to look.
Can we achieve anything? I don't know. Are we merely twitterati? I don't know. Are we powerless? I don't know. LET'S FIND OUT.
I'm sorry, this is another political post, but I cannot be silent. (Edited for clarification. Never write angry.)
If anyone is in any doubt that Theresa May means this country, or this planet, nothing but harm...if anyone was for one second taken in by the pack of blatant and unrepentant lies she offered in her speech...let that doubt be laid to rest, let the truth drive out deceit. Among the very first decisions she has made is this, the decision to stifle and destroy all the work we had just begun to do to heal our desperately wounded biosphere.
She is not an evil person. There are no evil people. There are evil ideologies, and the ideology that she serves is evil from the rotten core out to the suppurating rind. There are evil actions, and this is the first of many.
THIS. MUST. BE. STOPPED.
We cannot afford to despair. We cannot afford to shrug our shoulders and say "that's just the way it is." We cannot afford not to do whatever we can. They will tell us that we are just a few people, liking and sharing and clicking buttons on the internet, that that never achieves anything. Are they right?
We have global reach here, theoretically. Our words can travel across the country, across the planet. We, those of you reading this and I, we have skills, we have talents, that could be put to use. We have what has long been touted as the ultimate means of communication here. They call us the "twitterati," a demeaning term for permanently outraged middle-class uselessness. Are they right?
We have real cause for outrage here. For decades our political system has been hijacked by a new kind of bourgeoisie, a political class in the pockets of the super-rich and working for them against us. We have known all this time that successive Conservative and "New" Labour governments have accepted donations from the owners of global megacorporations and directed government policy according to their wishes and to our detriment. They openly admit it. Rupert Murdoch made a joke about it. "When I go to Downing Street they do what I say." They think we are powerless against them. Are they right?
I could go out and walk the streets of my home town passing out leaflets and yelling at people in the High Street and achieve nothing. This town will never forsake the Tories. Here, at my keyboard, I can be useful. I can talk to people who are in doubt, whose minds are open. I only need to be aimed in the right direction. I am not alone. *We* are not alone.
I have little to offer, but I have words at my command. Let me do something. If you know of any place where my words can be effective, where they can reach people who need to be reached, tell me where to look.
Can we achieve anything? I don't know. Are we merely twitterati? I don't know. Are we powerless? I don't know. LET'S FIND OUT.