The Thinking People’s Union Declares: Strike!

Okay, put me down as sickened but not surprised by the latest nonsense from the Democratically-controlled Congress. I’m speaking, of course, about the shameful health care reform bill that the U.S. Senate moved toward passage in the wee hours of the night.

Others have done a fine job of dissecting the bill’s specifics, but they all can be summarized with this: It’s not about health. It’s not about care. And it’s not about reform. Instead, it is yet another government giveaway to the corporate class – a most sinister reverse Robin Hood whereby those with the least are providing (once again) to those with the most.

And until those of us with the least decide to do more than we’re doing (politically, that is), it will only continue. Because the same grease that’s being used to skid the rails of this health care charade is being used to grease the electoral process. It’s called money – lots and lots of money.

The antidote to money in politics is activism. And the activism that is necessary in the face of this nation’s accelerating slide into a near-terminal state of social and economic injustice must step outside of the box.

It is time, my friends, for the workingmen and women of this nation to show our teeth and let the powers that be understand that we aren’t going to play nice anymore. We’re not, for example, falling for the two-party hoaxes, the election-season glad-handing, or the slick talk of elected millionaires pretending to speak for “the people” (are you listening, Bernie Sanders?).

Ironically, we should learn from the bankers. They cried wolf and declared to the federal government that without assistance they would be shutting down the economy. And then, with unprecedented haste over a mere weekend, the bankers and the Wall Street crooks received more than a trillion dollars in assistance while they should have been jailed for one count of causing the problem and one count of bribery to pretend they’d solve it.

Well, the working people of this nation should do the same. But, unfortunately, we won’t be crying economic wolf because our pain is real. Specifically, we should threaten to shut down the economy by refusing to pay our debts and mortgages, refuse to show up to work, refuse to pay another dime in insurance bribes, or otherwise participate in a system that is so clearly stacked against us.

We’ll call it a peaceful economic revolution. We’ll show them that it can be done. And we’ll call ourselves the “Thinking People’s Union.”

Otherwise, we’ll just keep getting jerked around by the millionaires who keep pretending to “feel our pain.” Bullshit on that.

Now let’s hear some music against fascism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism: