I’m on Facebook, Blue Sky, Instagram, and a bunch of other social media sites. I’m not on Twitter/X because I have been banned 40 times and the site is so overrun with Nazis I just don’t want to go back.
Anyway, I’m a member of a bunch of left communities over there, that meaning I’m in groups of leftists who talk about organizing, who try to help each other with donations because we’re all hurting, and I keep company with people who genuinely want a better world for everyone and are trying to find the best ways to make that happen.
I just had the urge to post tonight, because once again I saw so many of my friends posting their needs, showing pictures of themselves, their families, their kids, their bills as proof, all in the hopes that they could get some help, and not just help for a few small things, but for electric bills, water bills, health care bills, rent, groceries, and so much more.
My sweet, kind, compassionate friends who keep trying to push for a better future for all of us while also in desperate need of help themselves.
John Steinbeck, famous author of novels such as “The Grapes of Wrath,” and “Of Mice and Men,” once said that if you needed help, go to the poor man, they’re the only ones who will help. The only ones, and he was right.
Why is that? Because I believe the wealthier you get the more disconnected from humanity you get. You stop seeing other human beings who make far less than you as being equal to you, it’s the poison that having excess can do, this idea that you earned it so you must be more worthy of consideration than those who don’t have enough.
The only reason wealthy people are wealthy is because they convinced a bunch of other people to give them money for something they thought they needed, or a service that they had to have. “Passive income” is nothing more than skimming the money off the top of worker’s paychecks. It doesn’t make you worthy, it just makes you a thief.
I tell people if you’re going to steal, do so from large corporations who are protected by the system that keeps them afloat, don’t steal from small businesses or individuals, because they won’t be able to maintain their financial buoyancy.
These corporations steal from everyone. Everyone.
So what you get is a heartless, sociopathic entity held in control by investors and people at the top who are disconnected from humanity having power and influence over systems that are supposed to protect the most vulnerable, and that is terrible. That is a terrible system. I would go so far as to call it an evil system, and yet here we are, once again, living in an evil system that punishes good hearted people for daring to be human beings and needing things they can’t afford, things like food, shelter, and medicine.
No one should have to practically beg just to survive from day to day. No one.
Every time I see one of my friends post a picture of their sweet and smiling faces asking if anyone has any change to spare for food, medical supplies, rent, bill money, or even just wanting enough to enjoy a night at a restaurant without the weight of ruinous debt sitting on top of them, it just shatters my heart. It makes me weep.
Watching my friends scratch and scrounge for a little food, a little money, a little respect and consideration, it makes me so angry that they have to live like this, that WE have to live like this because a handful of people have a disease where they can’t stop acquiring everything.
We deserve better than to beg for anything, whether it’s food, shelter, or any consideration of our basic humanity. We need to stop begging and start demanding, or else.
.Red
