It ain't no Kool Aid
What can the “little person” do?
We live in a country dominated by Citizens United, by “super-PAC’s,” by corporate wealth and power of such vast depth and breadth that to even contemplate a challenge against such powers is paralyzing. They are watching, they are listening, and if you step on the wrong set of toes, as the song goes, “The Man come and take you away.”
It is all well and good to be inspired by the words of men like Mario Savio, who said, “There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop!”
All well and good, yes…but when the moment arrives to actually lay oneself upon the gears and wheels, so many of us become daunted, diminished, or simply too afraid to act.
What can the “little person” do against such might?
Posted by Den 
