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People Power [1]

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Date: 2025-04-18

The People — are ready to get shit done.

I have proof.

The people in the building are fed up and the “leadership” has no actionable outlet for them — just be upset? The Admin knows we are upset its gonna hurt them?

If you don’t like the answer quit asking for one and be one. These people are ready for next steps.

PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_BG2Pubckg

the 2 people from the audience are wanting actionable steps to take and make change — right now. They did not get help. they are being told to calm down and wait.

A bunch of people — who want to DO something. Who want to take action to stop the madness.

Are basically told — sit and wait.

No one went there for a history lesson and cookies. they went to learn how to stop the madness and get their country back. The are looking to DO something and Do It NOW.

I hope you are not buying today — that is powerful — powerful for you — because you are awakening your strength. Powerful for us — because you are not alone. Powerful for our country because even if they want to ignore us they can’t and the longer and stronger it gets — the greater an avalanche of people united in their power will be able to go to next steps — like local elections local offices, community boards, community groups, national organizations etc. large street protests cost a lot and vanish. Get into your your community — help it. We all need you to be a civic citizen. Not someone who demands civility and civic service of others — you make up “us” and “we” make up the USA.

You can be the source of 1,000 papercuts — look at where you live work and congregate. Look at your associations — where can you be of service — how can you step up and help struggling people. Get food in the fridge — a lower interest rate, lower fees for necessary services — shared resources — educational/ guild knowledge to keep your stuff and car and home working when there’s no money to replace stuff.

Stop looking for leaders and actualize yourself — you are strong and capable!!!

STOP looking to the DNC to solve the problem — they couldn’t get an impeachment and went along with 4 years of court protections for a criminal who never went to trial.

I will tell you now that your opinions, and astute pontifications, and observations on KOS are not gonna do it. Ya gotta go touch grass and get into your community. Opinions are like aholes and this place is toxic dump of complaint and whining — erudite opinion and comment hasn’t won us jack shit.

The Princeton university Philosopher Richard Roty called it like it is long ago. If you want to be a smart ass college educated liberal helping America heal — you would be wise to understand the diagnosis, before everyone spits out the meds you offer.

“members of labor unions, and un-organized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers - themselves desparately afraid of being downsized - are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The non-suburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for - someone willing to assure them that once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen and post modernist professors will no longer be calling the shots...

One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion... All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet pp89-90” ― Richard M. Rorty

The people in that audience don’t want to hear sit and wait — they want to stop this shit now. So lets do that. Lets be proud to be Americans and proud to roll up our sleeves and help each other — joyous that we can unite in common struggle — put a spotlight on how beautiful it is when people awaken to their personal power. Reject the hate and go make some friends today — together we can get things done

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