Last night, crossing on a green light on San Pablo Avenue my son got knocked over by a car making an illegal left turn. The man drove off before my son could get his license number. No one else got his license number or followed the driver (disbelief of what they saw or apathy?). That driver didn't even slow down. He's a bastard. My son also didn't slow down. He got up and continued on his way. My son, in his own way, is an even tougher bastard (not literally). Probably tougher than me. He says all he has to show for it is a small bruise. Folks at work asked why his pants were dirty. He's laughing about the accident. I'm not.
Like most everyone else, I've been knocked down quite a few times in my life. Somehow I've always gotten up afterwards. That's my definition of winning. That's the only way I know how to. Just refuse to give up. That's what my son did.
Other types of drivers.
My son survived this irresponsible driver. That man didn't deny my son's future. I wish I knew who he was so I could warn others about his driving, but I don't know who he is. I do know about some others who are trying their best to deny my child and other children of their futures. They are a different kind of driver, but the same. They are the drivers drunk with greed that couldn't give a damn about crashing the economy or the planet.
Bankers and war profteers are drunk drivers...
We've all been hit. We've lost control (to whatever degree we ever had it in the first place) of our government. Our interests have been run over by concentrated greed. We can either take it or fight.
Better to fight.
Really, we have no choice.
It is not our comfort-level that is in the balance, but the nature of our 'civil' society and the very planet we trespass heavily upon.
We've been told that being run over by banks was necessary to protect us. We've been told that being run over by the MIC was necessary to protect us. Some of us accept that. Some others of us believe it is necessary to let just some of us be run over in order to protect for the rest of us.
Hell no.
The Republican party is chock full of those speeding nuts. We have more than enough of them in our own party as well. All of 'em need to be pulled out from behind the wheel. We need to vote their asses out. We need to protest their asses out. We need to blog their asses out. We need to occupy their asses out.
The longer we wait to do so the faster they speed. While we talk in terms of generational changes, of the need for decades of ground work, they are going 100 mph trying to cut a swathe of destruction to deny us the tools to ever complete the ground work.
Demographics will work in our favor? Some will. Not the demographics of apathy and alienation. And that is what happens after you see person-after-person getting run over by greed and corruption, and nothing meaningful done to prevent a repeat-or to punish the culprits. Is that really the message we want to send?
Ef that effin chit.
We've got kossacks who fight. We've got kossacks who aren't ashamed to admit they've lost everything. We've got kossacks that speak truth to power. We've got kossacks who organize. We've got kossacks who stand in the cold with their families to raise public awareness. We've got fighters here.
We need more like 'em.
We don't need more of the Third Way. We don't need their ennablers. We don't need excuses for the Third Way that some of us have to be run over in order to avoid worse collisions. We don't need that, my neighbors don't need that, and the country doesn't need that.
Yeah, so I'm mad my son got hit by a car that didn't even slow down to see if he was alive. He is. And he's fine. I'm madder though that my son's future is being run over by imbeciles so drunk on greed that they don't even see (or care) where they're driving. Smash up their own car? They don't care. They can afford to buy another one elsewhere.
They need to be pulled out from behind the wheel. The passengers they give lifts to - unemployment, injustice, racism and Homophobia - also need to be pulled out. Promise that to pedestrians/voters and you'll get their ear. Deliver on that promise and you'll get their loyality. Renege on that promise via sham DMV renewals of elections where the candidates are ennablers of greed-driven Third Wayers...and watch the continuing decline in interest in voting.
Fight 'em. Knock the dust off yourself and fight 'em again. I don't know about where you live and who your neighbors are, but in my poor neighborhood my neighbors need you to fight. So does the planet. Today. Tomorrow. And the day after.
Daily Kos will not enable those who enable Third Way
-Kos
Damn right we won't. Not without a fight. If we get knocked down in the process, we'll get back up again. We'll do it a thousand times if we have to. Others did it before us, and it is even more important that we do it now. We have no choice....