Oligarchy Now

I sat through this discussion today from end to end and came away thinking that these guys must be from some other planet. They are discussing the conflict between parties in a contest where pretty much every individual mentioned is more powerful than either and may both of the parties. They are all corrupted and the notion of how things will resolve is that no body wins Have we no aspirations ? No vision of some actual common interests of much more than a simple majority of Americans? None of the notable Billionaires are good guys. I am pretty sure if you are a billionaire you can only be good on a topic here and there. If you were an actual good guy, and had billions, you would give most of your money away, because a good guy would know that being too rich, awards too much power, and that power makes people crazy in mostly very bad ways. like Zuckderberg Like Bezos etc. Concentrations of wealth like those we suffer today are very bad for the economy and and absolutely antithetical to the any responsible notion of a common good. If these guys are in dischord I hope they kill one another. Are we watching the rebirth of feudalism and the restoration of the darkness of the dark Ages.

In the unlikely event anyone from Lever reads this.

Dear David,

Fellow Coloradan, Nugs Nation member,

I cannot continue to read how bad things are each day. It's fucking depressing. I know you want me to, because that's how you make money. But I'm not doing it.

Trump has lived rent free in my head since 016. Each day I'd wake up, read something from you, Krystal, Glenn, or the other progressive/indie media heads (defined as Trump is a con man) and think - "Oh wow. People aren't going to put up with this, they'll be shocked". 

I'd pass what I read along to friends on the right. At first, they said "Oh that's just MSM bs". And then when Kelly Anne Conway came out with her now bellwether "Alternative facts" quote, my friends said "Fake news"! I haven't been able to reach them since. And given the sorry state of our country, neither have you or anyone else who fancies themselves as progressive/indie journalists. 

Things have only got worse. Our entire political system is corrupt, as you so well laid out in The Master Plan podcast. Trump is back. So what's the point of continuing to read you or the others each day? What do I get out of it? How does bieng informed make things better? Seems to me there is no point, it's a waste of time. I get nothing out of it but misery, which seems to be a profitable business. Things don't get better, Trump is President. Our country has been taken over by broligarchy. We're fucked.

Yeah sure, I know all there is to know about government, Gaza, what shit bags Trumpers are. So what? I'm depressed. It's all bad for my soul.

If you want my money I need to read about solutions - how we get out of this cesspool we're in. I want to know I'm not typing into a void, which so far, this site appears to be. Because I've sent in emails, asked questions. Crickets. If you want my money you're going to have to answer my emails, provide me with something I can do with the few hours a week I have to help make our country mo better.

You can start by telling me about groups you think are worthwhile. For example I looked into volunteering for Our Revolution. But then I found out that I can't even vote for the next DNC chair. I found out that the voting is done by 448 mysterious people. I asked the DNC who are these 448 people? They didn't answer, said to contact the Colorado DNC. So I contacted the Colorado DNC. Crickets. David I can't even find out who these 448 people are, that vote for the DNC positions. I want no part of any party or group that does this, or is connected to the DNC in any way.  Fuck the DNC, Clintons, Obamas, Bidens, and the rest of them. They're a big reason why we're here. I'm a Bernie bro. I want to get behind a younger Bernie. I want to know my voice is being heard.

I think we the people should start a new party. What do we have to lose? We've already lost everything. It can't get much worse. Well I guess it can. You get my drift.

So David, I need solutions. I need to take actions each day. I'd like to attend something where I could meet you. I need to know you're something other than just another fucking media head feeding my pain body. Reading about how terrible things are isn't taking action. All it does is make me depressed.

Consider this my 30 notice. Otherwise, I'm out.

Sincerely,
Paul Kulas
Eagle, CO

More typing into the void, insanity.

Ryan Grim is another one. I subscribed to his site. But again, sent in emails asking questions. Never got a reply. I've subscribed to Breaking Points, same thing. I couldn't get any help with my subscription. It's all a lob sided relationship, goes just one way. Life is too short.

Make no mistake I'm pretty sure David and Ryan are good people. David has a Fat Lever jersey. Ryan is a Phish phan. But after all these years, sub$cribing to good people didn't do anything. I was at all the protests. I read what David, Ryan, Krystal, Ezra and so many more wrote. What changed? Nothing. It got worse. Trump is freaking President.

There's one person who I think has it right - Ralph Nader. Ralph talks about forming citizen groups, doing town hall meetings. I think this is the way. Because it's taking action.

Reading social media, being on social media, being informed doesn't accomplish anything. I got the memo. Things are terrible. Now what? All I got was an addiction and a really bad case of ADD. Social media is a social disease, it's a big reason why Idiocracy is here.

Paul Kulas
Eagle, CO

Hey Paul, I feel your pain and have similar misgivings about the rabbit hole of progressive podcasts I've followed since the first trump presidency. It's my humble opinion that the only thing that might lead to real progressive change is an uprising of the working class as outlined by the Workers Strike Back movement headed by by Kshama Sawant. It's exactly the kind of group that Ralph Nadar discusses. It just needs to grow with more disillusioned folks like you and me. Check it out and keep the faith. Dan

you know BS is ahead when Jamie Dimon types appear on "Joe Rogan" to "advocate-culture-war" all folksy and freedom and stuff about.....eliminating centralized repo clearing, lower bank capital standards, bitcoin (legalized money laundry) deposit taking etc etc..........Instead of going to "K-Street" they go "Joe Rogan" now for the culture war. What an ugly bunch of people rise to the very top.

Corporate Media decided this election and nobody made an issue of this in any significant way. Corporate Media hates the poor and the working people. They glorify the rich and powerful because Corporate Media is owned by the rich and powerful. I do not watch Corporate Media. I closed my Dishnetwork account over twelve years ago and the healing was instant. I am not giving my pennies to an industry that wants me dead under a tent on a sidewalk. That's stupid. I, also, saved a lot of money.

Every individual who pays for and watches Corporate Media is supplying the money and the power Corporate Media needs to continue lying to you, brainwashing you, numbing your thinking, numbing your senses, planting opinions and judgement in your minds.

Corporate Media tells you what to think and feel, how to think and feel, when to think and feel, where to think and feel, why to think and feel. You don't have an original thought in your head. Until people make important changes to improve their lives, misery will always prevail. Close your cable account now.

Because of Corporate Media putting trump back in the white house people are going to die.

To all those who put this stooge back in the white house, don't you dare, don't you dare whine, bitch, complain, grumble, fret, grieve, wail, or protest. You are getting what you voted for.