The Furious Spinner

What's born every minute? Suckers. American Suckers. I've been saying for years, years, decades to get of all these frigging chemicals out of our lives. Oh, no, I heard from all quarters. C'est impossible. Apparently not so. Many manufacturers have two productions lines: "one that manufactures hazard-free products for the European Union and another that produces toxin-filled versions of the same items for America and developing countries." !!!!!!!! (Shrill screaming here.)

Greed, greed, greed. And more fucking greed.

This reminds me of the Niemoller quote (First they came for the communists...) For years it has been "acceptable" to so many that U.S. companies dumped their poisons on third world countries. Yet now we find out they've been dumping them on us, too. "First they poisoned Central America with chemicals and I did nothing to stop it. Then they poisoned Africa and I did nothing to stop it....Until they came and poisoned my country and there was no one left to to stop it...not even me."

I'm tired of this shit.

Yesterday Mario and I were on our evening walk around town and we started talking about politics, and I asked him what he thought of lobbyists. He said lobbyists weren't the problem. The problem was the American people who sat around and allowed these lobbyists to have power. If people got up and voted, if there was a 90% turnout in the elections--or even something close to that--politicians wouldn't listen to lobbyists or anyone else. If someone came into their office and tried to influence them, they'd kick them out because the true power, the real power, would then be the power of the people.

As it should be. America began as a grand and wonderful experiment. Not perfect by any means. But the idea that people could govern themselves without the ruling class was a revolutionary glorious idea.

What happened?

Labels: democracy watch, sustainability

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