Where's the Outrage?

Where is the outrage? Why are the old Fox television viewers not outraged over the gas prices, which are now more than $3.99 and higher a gallon? Food is also escalating in prices, as are the cost of heating and cooling our homes and businesses. Most of the Fox watchers are Social Security pensioners with limited income, which, thanks to Ronald Reagan, is taxed—again. Even with Medicare, most have to drive to the doctor’s appointment and gas at $3.99 a gallon, leaves less in the food and housing budget. All you hear from these old people is crickets about why this is happening. Think back to when President Obama was in office and how loud they screamed about gas prices and how he wore a tan suit—all because they were spoon fed outrage from Fox entertainment news. How are these people paying the difference in these rate increases? Is it by credit cards, skimping on their medications, applying for other government assistance programs, like Meals on Wheels, relying on family members or neighbors? What happens to these people when there is a major expense, like a car repair, roof leak, refrigerator or washer breaks down? In comparison, here are now close to eleven million millionaires in the U.S. alone, this number has increased 6 percent since 2016, according to Spectrum Group’s Market Insights Report in 2018. Where is the outrage? Some old people, much to the chagrin of their family members, take out a “reverse mortgage” on their homes, if they’re lucky enough to own one. To do this they have to have fire insurance, and if they live in a fire zone, insurance companies won’t insure in these areas. The fire zone areas are getting larger and larger with each fire season. Again, where is the outrage? What exactly are these people doing? Are they just bending over and taking it? Clearly, they are not using their critical thinking skills to see through the manipulation and manure Fox is spreading. Some adult children of these viewers have taken to putting child locks on their parents’ televisions and blocking Fox. When the parents complain, the children tell them that their provider stopped carrying Fox because it is a propaganda machine for Rupert Murdoch and his cronies to dupe people into doing their bidding. Most of these people will never figure out or accept they’ve been conned so they won’t take to the streets to change things, but instead, will have what little they have taken away from them little by little until they’re on the streets fighting over shopping carts. Then, there are the people who are working gig jobs, grateful to have a job, but missing the point that these gig jobs are robbing them of a decent wage, healthcare and pensions. They see no future, and most are just trying to survive day-to-day, pay their rent, car insurance, gas, food, while living month to month crossing their fingers that they don’t get a ticket, and nothing breaks done or no emergency arises. A universal basic income would help both of these groups. People who are lucky enough to have a government job, whether it’s with a city, county, state or federal level, stay vigilant. There is a movement to go after your benefits to pay for their tax cuts, and to privatize your job. Look at the history of privatizing government jobs to see how badly it always turns out for the average citizen. Where is the outrage? We have one chance to help offset some of these destructive patterns in the coming election. We need to vote for what is good for us and not listen to all the other rhetoric being spewed about. Look at the candidates previous voting records, affiliations and what they stand for. Some Democratic candidates are from the old guard, corporate centrists, who are now trying to rebrand themselves as progressives and for the people. Don’t be fooled. Some Democratic candidates, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders, are appearing on the Fox entertainment news channel to share their message and vision for the country and it is working. The viewers are liking what they hear. Are you ready for some outrage? The French showed their outrage and rolled back the government’s attempt to screw the average working person out of rights and hard earned entitlements. The retired people and the workers need to follow in the French’s footsteps and do a mass protest before the elections so the people running for office get the message loud and clear of what we want and that we’re not going to roll over and continue to be kicked by the corporatists. We have to make them do our bidding once they get into office because they won’t do it on their own. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke of a second bill of rights, and it will start with outrage our part and in the street. FDR also said to the progressive people working to get better wages, Social Security, and union rights and better working conditions for the common workers, “I agree with you. Now go out there and make me do it.” That’s a call to action.