Happy FriMeh!
Or FriYAY! or whatever
Hello, Friend
Happy FriYAY!
I’m not sure how much yay we’re all feeling these days, so maybe it’s more like Happy FriMeh! Either way, I’m here and you’re reading this so that’s something. Or something like that.
Yay! Meh! Whatever.
I am noting something beginning to take form. It’s an interesting counterpoint to the rise in autocracy. People have grown tired of being pushed down and it doesn’t bode well for the folks doing the pushing. There’s an increase in refusing to acquiesce, in fighting back, in saying ‘NO!’, and in resolute resistance. It’s showing the rest of us that the many do still have considerable power and the few are not as all powerful as they pretend to be. The thing about wealth inequality is that eventually the have nots reach a breaking point when they realize the haves are the cause of their struggles. If you look at charts and graphs of income distribution in the US and worldwide over the past decades, it’s clear there has been a concerted and considerable effort to consolidate wealth.
No one should have to be poor. No one should have to go into debt or crowd fund assistance to pay medical bills. No one should have to go without food or housing or quality education. Our planet should not have to devolve into endless climate change fueled disasters creating millions of refugees. We have enough resources and ingenuity to fix what is broken and for everyone to live comfortably and still have some that have more if that’s their thing. I’m down with the premise of working hard and reaping what you’ve sown. I’m also a believer in the social contract of lifting people up and helping the least among us. CEOs who earn obscene amounts of money on the backs of consumers while their workers struggle to live on paltry paychecks, this is increasingly untenable. Billionaires who buy elections while being subsidized by tax payer money and have the temerity to lecture the rest of us on the necessity of austerity measures are starting to look like the corrupt cartoon villains they are.
The wealthiest of the wealthy have decided, once again, that they deserve it all and the peasants (that’s the rest of us) deserve nothing, not even the crumbs trickling down while they stuff their gullets. The ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ of it all coming from The Cock Rocket Boys, the Faux Holy Rollers, and the Greedy Grifter Class is wearing mighty thin.
Perhaps the curtain will finally be pulled back to reveal the Wizards of Woe and their illusions in a such a manner that even the folks who put their faith in these faithless leaders will wake up and realize the painful truth before it’s too late. One can only hope, and as long as I’m here, I will continue to hope.
“Hope is a waking dream.” Aristotle
I used more words than I intended today. Oops.
Happy FriMEH! Keep hope alive!
xoxo, Margot
We will never give up, or give in, until everyone has a seat at the table.
So well said. But as Marc Elias says: We aren't building a resistance, we are building an opposition movement. It includes new leaders, hard work looking to make structural changes, and opposing in the courts, the states, and with the meek opposing more crushing destruction. The Republicans spent 4 years of the Biden admin to regroup and take over. Now it's the turn of non-Maga, democracy loving people, leaders, and statesmen to oppose.