Blood, sweat, and tears

I can understand an eagle, or a hawk circling high over their prey, hunger sharpening their skill as they plunge downward and make the kill before ever having to look into the eyes of their victim. That is nature in its purest form.

What I don't understand are politician's whose hunger for fame and money allows them to circle down low over their prey, pinning them to the poverty board to die a long agonizing death of hopelessness even after jumping through all the right hoops and doing their best to be a useful and decent human being.

In a nation where the wealthy don't even have to look at the rest of us, our elderly are actually going hungry, our young are being duped into paying for educations they will never be able to use, our diversity is being used against us as they try to push the masses into neat little ruts of obedient desperation.

The very bottom rung of the ladder is to keep em hungry.  Then turn public education into a mere mass of statistics and soon the people are no longer thinkers and doers, they are what the politicians and the rich already thought they were --  desperate people simply trying to survive.

We need to break the mold, become amassers of real information, real thinkers, people who can look at a situation critically and make their own decisions then act on them appropriately.  Our ancestors gave their blood, sweat and tears to make that possible.  Now is not the time to hand it over meekly because we want to pretend it isn't necessary.