Can you fucking hear us now?

[davidthegnome]

116. Well..

Every now and then, someone writes an OP that gets me all fired up. When I saw your headline... "Can you fucking hear us now?" It kind of let loose a lot of what I had been thinking and feeling. Damn right they can hear us now - and for those who can't... don't worry, we're going to get louder.

We, the great unwashed, are sitting up, scratching our heads... and saying... "Wait, what the..." The real sleeping giant in this Country is starting to wake up, and it's pissed off, and hungry. It's the poor and middle class, the working class individuals, that have been pushed to the side, comfortably ignored and used by the wealthy class. Class... you know, when I was a young boy, I read about caste systems in other Countries, in which one's value, one's worth as a human being, was determined by their wealth, their parentage, their... noble lineage. I remember being shocked at that and thinking "Thank God we don't do that in America!"

The years since have demonstrated to me how naive that thinking was, that, not only was such a thing happening then, but that it's influence, the power of the corporate/money machine, had become so unthinkably vast and corrupt that it called for a whole legion of heroes to fight back. I used to despair that we would ever find people like Martin Luther King, FDR, Gandhi, great political, spiritual - and civil rights leaders and heroes who overcame evil through their strength of spirit, the justice of their cause, the truth of their words.

Now I see, none of their actions would have been possible had they not been supported by more than legions of heroes, but by hundreds of thousands - even millions of them. Regular people, who work and go to school, take care of their kids and buy groceries... day after day, week after week. Those we admire most, those who inspire our hearts, our souls - and our courage... to great thought and great deeds... they are not some super heroes that came from another planet, some alien, or some kind of severe anomaly. They are representative... of the people they come (and came) from, the people with who they worked and lived, with who they laughed, bled, and cried.

In their time, they represented the spirit of the 99%. Now it's our turn. I think Bernie Sanders is a damn good man, but it is the people behind him, their struggle - and their cry for justice, that is really leading this revolution.

It's only beginning. The 99% exists not just here, but all over the world. Humanity... society... eventually evolves in grand and amazing ways - what we are seeing now is but the beginning of such a thing.

We'll never live in a perfect world, but damned if we can't make it a hell of a lot better than the one we're living in now.

Sorry, I guess I did it again. Usually I'm fairly quiet...