We Have Nots wage slaves of the world must make changes ourselves. Hannibal said we will either find a way or make one. We can start by asking why, who and how. Asking these questions is the start of change. Some say it’s no coincidence that the question mark is an inverted plow, breaking up the hard soil of old believes and preparing for the new growth. Workers must have a plan for the working people that are for the good of the people. Remember when you start the war between the 1-2 percent and the 98-99 percent; the 99 percent need a starting point and a stopping point.
How the war will be waged hopefully without destroying what we are fighting for. In President Lincoln’s First Inaugural, he said, “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. The people who should take heed of the options of the masses and not keep taking away the peaceful options of the masses.”
Like the U.S. Supreme Court voting against all labor cases, which comes before them, and state governments destroying labor unions. These types of actions are fast pushing the Have Nots to less and less options. The oligarchies should take a look at the Art of War on this strategy and how it can back fire on them. The people need to wake up the fact that the oligarchies are pitting poor against poor while they, the oligarchies fill their pockets.
We must remember the war is just about money and power. It all goes back to money and all players want a full house before playing their hands. The odds are you will never start if you don’t take a chance. It is called gambling. All you can do is educate yourself, plan, know yourself, and know your enemy, as outlined in Art of War. Also, be willing to fight for a better life like that $15 to $18 an hour minimum wage could bring. You must be willing to fight for a free education, single-payer healthcare, a safe working environment and pensions. It is worth it.
Remember, power has always derived from two main sources, money and people lacking money. The Have Nots must build power from their own flesh and blood.
In 2012 more than a quarter of all political contributions came from just 30,000 people who represented the 1 percent of the 1 percent, 90 percent who spent the most won. Today, we are an experiment in either a democracy, which started in 1787 or an oligarchy, which is winning. The nonunion people, like Trump and Musk, have most all the tools in their pockets to destroy our unions. They have money, they have the courts, they have law enforcement, they have the media, and 50 percent of workers that don’t know this don’t know the history of the working class people. This is the perfect storm to lose all the gains workers have made whether they’re union or not, even our Social Security and Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. So, now we will have to go way back to the late 1920s and ‘30s and dig up the old labor party books. One book, written in 1964, has the information, The Rebel Voices, an IWW Anthology by Joyce L. Kornbluh, educator, activist, and advocate. The history of our labor...
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