Angst is spreading across the country. Every day you hear an increasing number of reports of shooting rampages. The number of victims is increasing.
People are at their wits' end. People's homes being foreclosed on (with the use of fraudulent bank paperwork). Millions of people trying to keep with their payments of their "underwater" mortgages, while dealing with job insecurity, or unemployment. People being targeted for discrimination by employers just for having been out of work "too long."
People are being nickel-and-dimed to death... Late fees, exorbitant overdraft bank fees. People getting $400.00 traffic tickets generated by cameras at intersections. Miss a payment on one credit card, and see interest rates skyrocket on the other ones.
Crumbling infrastructure, less money and resources for public education, skyrocketing college tuition costs, cutbacks on social safety net programs, tens of thousands of public employees being laid off.
Things you've never seen before, like a "clean-cut" "middle-class-looking" lady at a intersection with a sign asking for money...
There is just so much pressure a people can take before they explode in anger; once they realize there is no hope.
And while this is happening, the level of opulence and privilege for the rich has never been higher.
In the meantime the understanding that there has been an unprecedented level of widespread corruption by the powerful is beginning to sink in in the national psyche. Extraordinary crimes done with impunity, and covered up by the ruling elite sycophants in government--of both major parties.
That's how it happens... The assorted "family feuds" that ends up in multiple people being shot to death; spontaneous riots springing up out of otherwise innocuous events.
The level of anger and despair grows and grows, when people realize there is no hope.
And downtown Oakland explodes in anger, and then is Richmond, or Atlanta, or New York. And it happens because people realize there is no hope.
And it happens because we all put our hope in a leader that ended up lying to us, and because this leader failed to tell the story of what had happened. And he failed to tell the story about how he was going to address what has had happened. And as we all know, when crimes are committed by the powerful with impunity, and when they exploit the people, then the concept of justice and equality under the law is destroyed. And where there is no justice, there no peace.
And yes, initially, because despair and desperation, and anger, people will riot in their own neighborhoods. And many would say, "look at those fools destroying their own neighborhoods and businesses," not understanding that when people are pushed to the brink they are slowly filled with rage, eventually that rage explodes--and when it does, it seems like there is no logical reason for it.
But soon enough "revolutionary" leaders arrive and they tell the people filled with rage, "look, there are the motherfuckers who did this to you... The Wall Street bankers who committed fraud and stole trillions, plunging the country into despair; the rich and greedy bastards and their enablers in government, and their brainwashing propaganda machines (U.S. media)."
And soon people organize and start directing their rage where it belongs... And this happens because our leader failed us, and because where there is no justice, there is no peace.
And yes, the fucking bastard pigs will get $230,000 guard dogs, and they will hire private security (fascist) companies started by former Blackwater people to arm their private yachts.
And what an irony... These pigs would rather buy $230,000 guard dogs and pay exorbitant amount of money to arm their motherfucking private yachts, and live behind gated communities than pay an additional 3% in taxes, properly fund public education, and allow for a decent social safety net so the slave class from whom they get their benefit can live with a modicum of dignity.
If this nonsense continues, the revolution will not be televised--only.
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Note to government minders, FBI, DHS, etc.: I'm in no way calling for violence, or inciting violence. I'm just writing about what happens historically when oppressive plutocratic ruling classes oppress and exploit people... So don't put my on any "watch list." And as advice, follow up on the investigations of the massive crimes committed by Wall Street. That may help advert problems in the future.
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