You Say You Want a Revolution

If you listen closely to the lyrics of the song, they express my thoughts about the current revolutionists. Wouldn't, or shouldn't, we all like to see the plan? From all I’ve seen so far, the Sanders and Paul calls for revolution are short on plans and big on destruction of the political parties that they have crashed and of our government. Sanders, a socialist who has done nothing but criticize the Democratic Party jumped into their primary race without even bothering to join the party first. Paul, a libertarian who did join the Republican Party, also professes to hate the government he asks voters to trust him with. 

This makes sense to some people?

They appear to draw support from the same pool: disgruntled people who, rather than admit they caused the problems they complain about, want to punish the rest of us. They like to shout about demanding, forcing, revolting . . . From what I’ve seen and heard from these groups, there isn’t a single reason to believe they will do anything but, at best, stand on the same street corners screaming the same things and asking to be arrested, or make things worse to enable their self-fulfilling prophesies and eternal whining. Like the candidates they want to put in positions of leadership, they don’t seem interested in peacefully working toward specific goals.

Pipe dreams, shouted in anger is all they seem to have. Well, not all. They also have dismal records. 

The fact that the anarchists on the left and faux patriots on the right didn’t start their revolutions when the Supreme Court handed the White House to Bush in 2000, or when Bush invaded Iraq for no reason, tells me they are more about making noise and getting attention than they are about protecting the country they profess to love or standing for something.

So, we have anarchists to the left of us and patriots [sic] to the right. I will be sticking with people who can express themselves without shaking their fists, wagging their fingers, or throwing temper tantrums, and whose plans are concrete and whose proposals include steps toward achieving goals. That’s progressive, by my definition. Screaming ? Not so much. Not even close.

Art by Deb Mandicino (Great job, thanks for allowing me to use this, Deb.)