Somebody is making it happen

Got up this morning and turned on the lights, the radio, and made some coffee.  This did not all just happen.  Today we live in a magic world where reality has been suspended. We believe there is no problem with 100 CEO's making 3 million a month, while the Walmart greeter gets 8 dollars an hour. The CEO will make more in a month than the greeter does in a lifetime.  What is it that CEO does that is so amazing?  The CEO for Coke makes a bundle.  Coke is sugar, water, and some flavoring.  The CEO makes sure you buy plenty of Coke, and he sells it to you at the maximum price.  Wow, the guy deserves 100 million dollars a year for rotting your teeth and giving you a hillbilly belly.  Sometimes the CEO gives you nothing, he just robs you. Some of the richest people on Wall Street are just wonderful con men.  We have crooked stump preachers with 40 million dollar homes who sell hope to old ladies while they bilk them senseless.

Meantime it drives good Republicans nuts to pay a truck driver, or a coal miner a decent wage.  We got to bust up unions.  What about the union of the rich.  The rich union has taken everything from the working man.

Now a reality check. Last winter Kadizzle and The Commander went to Belize.  It was a nice trip, but seeing so many people living in poverty sure did not make the trip any better.  Yesterday a former neighbor talked with The Commander.  The Commander asked how the cruise was to Panama.  Oh, it was just fine, but traveling through the poor areas to get to the nice areas was depressing.  This was coming from a hard core Republican.  Years ago when Kadizzle was working his secretary went to Mexico for a vacation. Kadizzle asked how it went.  She had the same feeling.  It was no fun to go to a fancy beach resort after you drove through miles of poverty on the way to the beach.  Even the old neighbor could not help but make the observation, the rich took it all and left the rest in poverty.

Now this is what is happening to our country.  A small segment of our population has taken everything, and left so many with little or nothing. The Walton family that owns Walmart has more wealth than the bottom 150 million people in the United States. Ho, hum who cares, I got a big shiny pickup truck.  Meanwhile working people get up at 5:30 and come home at 6:30 and struggle to get by.  We have suspended reality.  We are all going to win the lottery and be rich next week, so of course we do not want to be taxed.

In the old days the rich were forced to give back with taxes.  Then we built the interstate, you could afford college, and the bridges were not falling down.  The rich don't need the interstate, they have jets. The rich have money to send their kids to college, so the hell with you.  What do we do?  We get in line behind a dufus like Trump.  He is going to give the rich even more tax breaks, and he is going to make America great again. Nothing to it, just believe.

People don't read, they do not think, and they have embraced a fantasy world where you can either wish away problems, or deny them, or ask God to fix them.  We no longer have the will to embrace reality.  Math was such a nuisance we did away with it.  Math will tell what speed you are going to hit the wall with your car.  Who would want to know that, just believe God will stop your car and send the preacher a check. Problem solved.  The real magic is blaming the mess on the poor.  The rich point to the poor and say " Those lazy bastards are the problem".   Ya, sure, ya betcha.  The poor love being poor, that is why they will not work.  They love those shitty homes in the ghetto, they love food stamps, and they just expect handouts from Democrats.  Go to the coffee shop and you can learn the solution to almost any problem.  Real facts, real education, and real knowledge have been abandoned.  Now we have Coffee shop university.  Surrounded by dolts you will learn there is no climate problem, the Mexicans are raping everybody, and Hillary is only concerned about getting your gun.  Talk to any dolt with a diploma from the local coffee shop and you will hear the truth, as we like to believe it.  Now you choose the news you want to believe. Rush will tell you exactly what you want to hear, just tune in and he will cook up a conspiracy a minute.  Fox News will assure you that what the guys at the coffee shop told you is true.  None of us would go on a day with all this hopelessness, except we all know we have that lottery ticket in our pocket. Tomorrow our number will be drawn.  The IRS will try to get our money, so we need to get out and support the Republicans so the IRS and the welfare cheats don't get our lottery money.  What a wonderful delusional world.  We are busted flat and we love the people who enslaved us.  All that history, all that math, all that science, teachers tried to pound into our heads is meaningless. What really matters is "If you believe it, it is true".   So turn on Fox, buys some viagra, get your miracle vitamins, and curse that damn Bernie Sanders the communist who is trying to tax the rich and steal your lottery winnings. Go, baby, go, drill baby drill.