words to remember: reasonable, moderate, judicious, measured,
average, compromising, gentle, soft, temperate, disciplined, sober…
now in regards to my last post calling for a revolution because we
have a tyranny in this country, a tyranny of the economic and political…
one might say, Kropotkin, you have been talking about self and finding
our possiblities and other such philosophical issues, now you are calling for
a revolution to overthrow the so called tyranny in America…that calling
for a revolution is extreme and radical, illadvised and intemperate…
there is no such need for such radical action… moderate actions are needed
and required… be patiant and measured and moderate and judicious in words
and actions… don’t be a radical…moderate solutions are what is called for,
not such radicalism…
I say look at France circa, 1787…after years, indeed decades of
fiscial mismangement begining with the building of Versailles…and going for the next
100 years… the people were suffering and there were even famines…
due to some crop failures… the people had enough… there millions who
were in extreme poverty and millions more were barely making it…
and what moderate solution would have fixed that extreme poverty?
what reasonable solution would have brought millions out of barely surviving?
no, extreme times calls for extreme solutions…
recall Russia circa, 1917…the first World War has brought Russia to
ruin… after decades of mismanagment, Russia was on the brink of complete
collapse…it was an extreme situation and what moderate and sensible and
temperate solution would have save Russia from collapse?
extreme time calls for extreme solutions…
so we today, we exists in extreme times, what moderate and reasonable
solutions would you have us do to fight the extreme radicalism of the right…
who deny the basic and fundamental rights of people to have food and shelter
and schooling and basic protections of the law and live in fear
of the police and being deported…
the radical extremism of the right forcing people to choose between food
and medicine, my mother who is 83 must make this choice as the price
of her medicine has grown to the point where she must make a choice
between food and her medicine and millions upon millions of people must
make the same choice…why should she face a retirement where
she can barely exist and then is threaten with the reduction of social security checks
and increase cost of medicare and Medicaid… or mothers who because of the
reduction of such programs like chip and WIC must choose who gets to eat because
of these reductions in needed services for children…
and what does the radical right offer in place of people facing starvation?
tax cuts! and not for the poor, noooooo, massive tax cuts for the wealthy and
powerful…and what moderate and sober and reasonable solution do you offer
for millions facing such horrible choices between food and needed medicine?
a tax cut? for the wealthy? if you offer such a thing, you are without a soul…
and what reasonable and moderate solution would you offer to
help feed children who have very little to eat as it is?
and how do we educate such children when we reduce
the money going to schools and offer vouchers? vouchers to
get kids into schools when they can’t afford to eat, little
less be able to get into a charter school or some other type
of private school…
these are radical times, extreme times and radical times call for,
demand radical and extreme solutions… when a man is starving,
do you offer him a tax cut? if you are a soulless republican, yes,
you offer a starving man, a tax cut… a rich person solution to
a poor person problem…and that is what is wrong with America…
the GOP offers a rich man solution to a poor person problem…
a tax cut won’t feed your children and a tax cut won’t solve
the problem of a older person choosing between
food and medicine and a tax cut won’t pay for your heat during
the winter months and won’t pay for an education for a child…
why? because a tax cut is a reimbursement for expenses made
and these people are too poor to have the expenses in the first place…
they can’t get a tax cut for an expense they can’t afford… that is why
tax cuts are a rich person solution because they can afford the expense
in the first place and thus can claim it later on their taxes…
a tax cut is after the fact and that doesn’t feed people or children
or old people at the moment when they actually need the money to pay
for food or housing or shelter or heating costs…a tax cut reimburses them
afterword… when it doesn’t do them a fucking lot of good…
these are not moderate and measured or reasonable or judicious
times, these are extreme and radical times and extreme and radical
times call for extreme and radical solutions…
wealthy people can afford moderate and reasonable solutions,
starving and helpless people cannot…if you offer up a moderate
and reasonable solution, it is a rich person solution to a poor person problem…
Kropotkin