5 Quick Ideas About Why and How to Resist
The rich already run everything, and they’re grabbing more power. Build your power with others and find new ways to resist.
Some ideas I’ve been reading over the past few days about the meaning of the new Trump administration and how we can start to adjust our thinking and behavior.
Republican vs. Democrat is the Fake Story. The Real Story is About Wealthy People Running Everything.
In pro wrestling, says Jared Yates Sexton, “you watch two people fight in a ring to settle a fictional storyline rivalry, but what’s actually occurring is that you’re paying a group of people behind the curtain who orchestrated the event.” The apparent story, involving Republicans and Democrats, is “the foreground we are given and communicated,” and “we’ve spent most of our lives only learning about the pseudo-environment.”
What’s more important now are “the actual material conditions.” We should be learning “how this country has worked and how it currently works.”
Rich people and corporations are using — no, merging with — the government to get richer and more powerful. They’ll lower everyone’s standard of living, steal natural resources and…
