John Allen
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

This is one of the main problems with the very narrow ‘two party’ system here in the US. We can hate each ‘side’ with extreme vehemence but can never stray outside these restricted lines betwixt each ‘side’. So this enables the power structures to stay in place with little, if any, change between administrations. Incrementalism as it exists today does little to help people or Earth as resources are stripped from Earth’s finite bounty.

This current system locks in the powerful corporate entities as govt and business becomes one with lines between the two fuzzy at best in a mind-meld of corpora-statism in a quasi fascist system of unknown — to citizens — control as long as folks don’t take the needed time to un-learn the indoctrination of capitalist ideas imbued from birth on. School and advertisers on TV keep these principals alive as capital is removed from workers which keeps them locked in a flawed system of debt for life.

So we sit helpless as wars are waged. People work harder for less real substance that keeps life livable. We have no representation for actual average people in our government; if we did there would be peace instead of endless wars.

Political theater of the absurd in corporate publications are there to see copies and, as a bonus, keep fine folks distracted to what’s really happening. Because if, say, 100 million got ‘woke’ things might change as politicians use govt forces to crack heads. So a better sneakier way forward has to be organized from the ground up. Get crackin’. Peace, The Ol’ Hippy John Allen

John Allen

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Critic, Cynic, Pessimist “We are all connected to Universe and each other whether we like it or not”

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