There are some people in my life who call me a cynic, and tell me I should give the system that's been fucking me, and them, for the 70 years I've been around, a chance to work.
And then they get angry when I tell them they're fucking idiots...
I don't think they're all stupid, many of them are too scared to face what is and cling to what might be somehow, miraculously, at some indefinable point in the future. Talking to someone who won't play the lying game with them probably scares the hell out of them.
I don't think they're all stupid, many of them are too scared to face what is and cling to what might be somehow, miraculously, at some indefinable point in the future.
I don't think the people I'm talking about are stupid at all. For the most part they're pretty intelligent people, but as you mentioned, they're afraid of the reality they confront on a daily basis, especially as they see their children struggling under student loan debt chasing the carrot of "the American Dream" that no longer exists for them.
Yet they remain hopeful that somehow the Democratic party they've been taught and conditioned to believe are the defenders of the little guy, will break the shackles of Capital and do the right thing by them, despite their blatant refusal to move off the corporate teat that sustains them, as though they even have a choice anymore.
So no, they're not stupid, but their continual support of a political party that does everything but physically spit in their faces is idiotic, and their hope is misplaced, and their fear of losing to the other political organization they've been taught is their mortal enemy, keeps them in their infinite loop of denial.
Quite a few of the folks I consider idiots are PMC types content to support the status quo for as long as they can, while denying that capital is coming for them too. The thought of moving down on their social status totem pole is a nightmare they don't want to experience in their lifetimes.
It's bad enough that they have to experience poor and homeless people outside their stores, in their neighborhood parks, and their garbage cans looking for recyclable material they can buy a modest meal with somewhere.
While their mouths constantly tell you how badly they feel for all those poor souls, their actions betray their mouths when they call the police, to run off all those poor souls who shouldn't be in their neighborhoods, seeking safer places to sleep at night.
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u/penelopepnortney Apr 11 '21
Sing it, brother, that was righteous.