This has gotten ridiculous. In an age ripe with infuriating political occurrences, egregious assaults on civil liberties, obviously unjust corporate practices, accelerating environmental degradation and regrettable wars for profit it really irritates me that the biggest outcries come from people concerned with pop stars being embarrassed. RIDICULOUS!
A outwardly racist representative shouts during a presidential address, I get it, it's a big middle finger to the country, but at least that assholes got the right idea! Some squeaky clean teeny bopper gets an award for a cookie cutter video for a typical bubble gum song and a revolutionary rap star steals her spotlight and says what's on his mind. By all means a dick move, but once again, THE RIGHT IDEA! Now if we could only get someone to do this about what actually MATTERS we'd be set.
There's an area of plastic trash twice the size of Texas floating around in the North Pacific, killing the marine life we depend on to sustain ourselves, yet no one seems to care. Our president continues an ideological war we had no business getting involved in in the first place, and only a few people care enough to actually protest. (And are labeled traitors and unpatriotic for trying to SAVE SOLDIERS LIVES by bringing them home. Really?) Our school systems are getting stripped down and sold to the highest bidder while politicians preach knowledge is power. (Anyone got a couple mill for one of the biggest school districts in the nation? Anyone? Oh thats right, all the financiers were too busy counting their billions to realized they've fucked themselves and the rest of the country. No worries, they get to keep their bonuses and We as taxpayers bailed them out. Perfect.) Do you see where I'm going with all this?
WAKE THE FUCK UP!
I normally try to avoid using offensive language in my postings, as an ethical choice, not because I have to, this is the internet and I can do as I damn well please, at least for now, but for the moment I just cannot figure out another way to phrase it.
Our country was built on the backs of revolutionaries. Intelligent people who challenged the status quo and believed in fighting for their ideals. (Granted they committed mass genocide and nearly wiped out a whole continents worth of indigenous people, but what country hasn't? Sadly spoken but true none the less.)
America has lost that revolutionary spirit. The idea of a government by the people for the people. It has given way to a government of the few for the privileged and it's not right. It is written into our constitution, that the people have a duty to maintain a just and beneficial government and it is their duty to replace it if necessary. I do not believe it necessary to storm Washington and toss the Senate to the wolves, but there definitely needs to be more political pressure exerted on the powers that be so we can regain control of our country.
We can wrest control of our lives back from the corporations. We can demand healthy food and good education. Clean water and a sustainable society. Fresh air and green buildings. We can do this! But only together! We must recapture the revolutionary spirit, that rockstar swagger. That "I'll do what I want when I want and you can't say shit about it," attitude. Once upon a time that was called Freedom. Once upon a time, our countries founders took that to heart, and built a society. Now it seems that confidence in righteousness is spared only on assholes and zealots, those who refuse to give it up. I think we need to take that back. The COMMON MAN needs that swag, that confidence, that belief that in this country, one can do what he chooses with his life, within reason, and make a life out of it. Not be subject to unreasonable laws and constant invasion of privacy. I believe that we can return once again to what was a FREE COUNTRY. But we need to do it together. United. As a country of everyday people, not as a government of elitists claiming to be the people.
WE ARE OUR COUNTRY. WE ARE THE PEOPLE. WE WILL BE HEARD.
FREEDOM
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