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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Like I could really do something

Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country” – John F. Kennedy
What are the average citizen’s chances of curbing our bloated & forever-increasing dEfense budget?
I’m pretty sure there’s nothing I can do to unsnarl this donor lobbyist induced legislative gridlock
What can I do about BigAg mono-cropping, water waste & insecticide, fertilizer & antibiotic abuse?
Seems like a loud majority of us take a real pride in our large-scale return to illiteracy and ignorance

What could I say that would enlighten them as to the absurdity of using hulking trucks as family cars?
How might the little guy voice a sane objection to the corpro-sales media guilt blitz they call $XMAS?
I’m guessing there’s no real way to focus on long-term sustainability instead of quarterly GDP figures
There never will be any genuine discussion regarding our own excessive numbers choking the planet

It’s pretty obvious that both sides have framed the CO2 debate such that prevention is not an option
Looks like religion will always be used to control the poor, milk the rich & sugarcoat political wars
How can I preserve habitat for disappearing species driven away by poor & hungry 3rd World farmers?
I can’t think of any way to get giant insurers to compete to provide healthcare to the poor or the sick

No way can I stop polluting frackers from profitably exporting our sound bite Energy Independence
The free market cannot help but demand more of a tasty fish until higher prices drive it to extinction
Like I could really do something that would help stop the lovely monarch butterfly from disappearing
I guess the best we can do is put up signs warning our kids to stay away from polluted lakes & rivers

How can I change a system Blacks say has allowed us unconscious prejudice against them for 300 yrs?
Why dispute terrorist claims to the One True God given our own comically-archaic, franchised faiths?
I’ll never get any of them off the couch in front the big screen to learn some vital new job skills
Without socialism, how can we let others besides developers, drillers & miners determine our future?

Their empty addiction to corporate sport wont be affected by some limp whining by impotent vegans
Ignorant, lower middle-class whites will always back Conservatives who openly out them as moochers
You can’t convince them that Obamacare isn’t some unconstitutional, socialist government takeover
Just try and reason with gun-toting ATV drivers hellbent on freedom-riding all over their public lands

Don’t bother asking why they don’t plan for, or even talk about, our looming global water shortage
And what do you think your letters do compared to anonymous multi-million dollar corpro donations?
Obesity is a disability, not the failure of people to learn what to eat or to how get off their backsides
Obviously, we must be those who provide Middle East solutions and not their corrupt desert regimes

It’ll always be easier to campaign with anonymous innuendos & half truths than to honestly debate
I must accept that abortion, gay rights & women’s needs really are society’s truly important issues
All of my recycling, hybrid-driving & locavoring won’t ever amount to a single coal-fired power plant
We will remain an entitled, exceptionist people whose leaders can demand that ‘God Bless America!

I can never even help start to rebuild broken electric, gas, water, roads, bridges, dams & internet
It must be proper to microscopically examine social programs but to blankcheck all arms spending
There’s no way to rid ourselves of this destructive plague of lifelong puppet, professional politicians
Yes, I fear each & every regelation directly limits our personal freedom & leads to a socialist decay

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