I’ll often describe my political writing as leftist, liberal, or progressive. And sometimes those labels carry the implication of people that hate cops, authority, and the system of law by default.
Despite all my ideals, I’m a realist and a strategist. Whenever I can, I teach young leftists, particularly the ones that spout off thinking they’re going to have some revolution, that the system is designed to crush violence, and that their best bet at effecting change is to use their first amendment rights, same way I do. I mean, look at what I was able to do, send corporate fraudsters running faster than the FTC could. Love or hate my politics, I’m always going to try to be a moral man. Educating young people on the fact that they can be successful in the current system through hard work and smart investment is paramount. My arguments are much more from a policy perspective and making that route as palatable as possible for the widest range of incomes and individuals. More people participating in the system means the system will be stronger. Let me not get too far off track here. (PRO TIP: Check out Verizon’s dividends.)
The bottom line is that I believe in the system and, as a general rule, trust the people that uphold it. Or at least am able to understand there’s good and bad everywhere. When I saw two cops had prevented a suicide on the Staten Island Ferry, it really made me think about some of the darker things I’ve written about police in the last few weeks. Was it unfair? Don’t ever let my criticism of systems reflect poorly on the good men, women, and otherwise that serve our counties, cities, states, and countries (I have readers outside the USA). There are many who feel public sector incomes are a waste. But how much value do you place on a human life? Obviously we can’t financially retire everybody that saves a life, there’d be too much incentive to fabricate. But can we please acknowledge that there ARE good people in government?
And those good people are cut down. Rest in peace, Jonathan Diller. I’ve read and watched tragedies like yours before. I will not forget if ever I’m in a position to effect change.
Those that believe government is a waste should step back and realize how ridiculously interconnected everything in this country is. Gutting things on the grounds that the government is too expensive to maintain is insane. Think through the impacts. A kind of inductive reasoning. It’s clear that government creates winners and losers. Plop a courthouse down and all the small businesses nearby get an influx of foot traffic on lunch hour. Just a single example. So why can’t we start writing policy that creates more winners? If we really did defund the police, would they have been there to save this man?
Will we be able to come up with policy that protects our protectors too?
Not if we continue to trust existing political parties, I feel.
Patriots Against Corporatism?
Fight the big money problem, we’ll have politicians unafraid to do what has to be done to meet the needs of the country. A government by its people and for its people.
And maybe we’ll remember that cops are people too.
P.S.
Never let my admiration of the good people I meet be mistaken for an unwillingness to point out systemic failures or the more bizarre things I see.
Never let my willingness to point out systemic failures be mistaken for an unwillingness to strengthen that system.
Should any of those young leftists I talked about come to this page, the first amendment is your best friend. If the government violates a constitutional right, you have systemic recourse. If you violate the law, the government has the right to interfere with your life. Don’t be like the “YouTube auditors” and use your free speech rights to be a jackass. And especially don’t use your rights to abuse cops. But understand that you’re allowed to organize with large groups of people online and off.
A lot of people hold the opinion that organizing online isn’t helpful or doesn’t amount to anything. This is false. We slew a fraud nonprofit with online organization. And on the right-wing end of the spectrum most of the book ban stuff was being done by like 12 people. Once again, a matter of people confidently spouting nonsense in the same way the AIs we created do. The internet has an impact on the world. That’s why world governments use troll farms to influence us.
Relatively small groups of people can have gigantic impacts on any one moment in time, and any one moment in time can change the course of history.
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This has been a creative expression for nonviolent action and free speech promotion.
Many lines have hidden or multiple meanings. Please ask if you need more information. For example, the part about Jews was to say that MPT scammed everybody, obviously not just one group. But it was also to denounce those that single out Jewish people unfairly.
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A store owner was killed over a pride flag not long ago. When I was a young man and throughout a nice chunk of my life, society was fairly good as a whole about condemning violence. That was sometime after the government stopped producing plans to kill its own citizens. The political landscape has definitely shifted. “Both sides” of the political landscape have elements that regard “the other side” as evil, stupid, or even inhuman. I know because I’ve seen plenty of online evidence and have even made goofy videos trying to persuade young people to get away from thinking about violence as an answer to political problems. We are forgetting, or perhaps some have never acknowledged, that we are all Americans and that while we may vehemently disagree, and in some cases nastily disagree, there is a line, and that line is unlawful behavior.
It has me thinking about my own writing. A lot of my writing is politically left to the degree we must use such labels to describe things, very much like that pride flag is often viewed as being. The concept I created for Patriots Against Corporatism hasn’t taken off yet, but I know there are right-wing people that respect that kind of stuff. They understand that America won’t function without more of the economy going to hardworking people like them, including small business entrepreneurs. The unfortunate catch there is that I may someday have elements from “either” political persuasion angry with me, especially if my following grows.
If I am ever targeted for my writing I hope that people will not lay down quietly about it. You do not need to live in a society afraid to speak. Sometimes the only thing that will stave off the threat of authoritarians of whatever political cause systematically silencing you is gathering together and shouting in one collective bellow, as we have learned from the countless movements that came before.
Those that follow me, I’m eternally grateful for your support. It really made a difference in our field. It continues to do so every day. So if I ever do fall victim to something and am not able to tell you myself, just remember how powerful you really are.
And remember that corporations and governments run cyber ops to control you and how you think about things, including your fellow Americans. That person you’re fighting with online may not be anything more than a kid from a rival country meant to sow discord among the people on the American political spectrum, because if we are fighting with each other, we’re not talking about how to solve societal issues and grow more brilliant American minds, make America a better place to work and live so that the brightest minds from all over the world immigrate here, end corruption in government, and generally how to maintain our relatively wonderful standard of living. For the world governments, this makes America weak, and there are a lot of them that want us weak. For the corporations, our infighting stops us from realizing that some of the richest people on Earth are assholes that abuse that power and they really don’t care if you have a nice life, they care about propagandizing you so that you act in a way that 1) benefits them, such as voting for their guy or 2) combats others that would stand against them deteriorating your and your families’ quality of life, a la the the constant media barrage telling you to live in fear of “them,” the political, racial, sexual, systemic, or religious “other.” These are not nice “rich” people like doctors and lawyers, they are the people who make more money in one night of sleep than you will in your whole life, statistically. These are the people that study human behavior in order to manipulate it for money.
If the neurotypical world is one where the majority of people believe that getting one over on each other is a good way to run a society, then I am quite happy to be an autist and denounce that society. But I suspect that the truth is that the majority of you do not believe in such a world. This is not inherent human nature. We do not see it ubiquitously in every country, nor do we see it in every community in our country. I believe that you believe in helping others, making an honest buck, and that there are simply sometimes social and economic reasons that that takes a backseat. This is very different from people that have all their needs and desires met and simply want more because they can have more at the expense of all else. And if that’s someday at your expense, it’ll be people just like you that save you or let you drown. If that worries you, you only need to throw the smallest of pebbles into the lake to change your reflection.
Each of you has a gift that can help humanity. I urge you to share yours with the world in the same way I have shared my writing. It is not every person’s cup of tea. Your gift may not be either. My writing has not made me rich. Your gift may not make you rich. But I live a richer and more fulfilled life than the one I lived before. I share what I share in the hopes that you will too.
Christopher Day shares his writing with the world in the hope that something good comes out of it.
