Personally, I’m happy to pay an extra 4.3% for my fast food burger if it means the person making it for me can afford to feed their own family. If you aren’t willing to fork over an extra 17 cents for a Big Mac, you’re a fundamentally different person than I am.
I’m perfectly content to pay taxes that go toward public schools, even though I’m childless and intend to stay that way, because all children deserve a quality, free education. If this seems unfair or unreasonable to you, we are never going to see eye to eye.
If I have to pay a little more with each paycheck to ensure my fellow Americans can access health care? SIGN ME UP. Poverty should not be a death sentence in the richest country in the world. If you’re okay with thousands of people dying of treatable diseases just so the wealthiest among us can hoard still more wealth, there is a divide between our worldviews that can never be breached.
fucking seriously.
Okay, but real talk: This is why I’m convinced that things like the Reign of Terror, horrible though they may be to live through, can actually serve an important social function in the long run. Because they remind the rich and powerful that they’re not paying for a social safety net strictly out of the goodness of their own heart; they’re doing it to buy peace and order and time away from angry, guillotine-wielding mobs for themselves.
You know what we need? We need a massive trolling campaign to expose their greed and call it out for what it is. And you know what cultural touchpoint we could use to really drive stuff home? A Christmas Carol.
A bunch of us need to show up at Congress and sing songs from The Muppet Christmas Carol like Marley and Marley, which condemns Scrooge for his greed & speaks of his horrid fate if he doesn’t turn his life around.
My sweetie had the idea pre-election of showing up at a Trump rally, rising above the crowd, and shouting out during a speech “Expect the first ghost when the bell tolls one!”
And maybe hacking into Congress’s website and their various databases and changing all the Republican senators/representatives (and those for the various healthcare bills) last names to Scrooge.
We need to start a fund/website that’ll allow people to send a copy of A Christmas Carol to the homes of these senators & representatives by merely selecting the congressmember they want to send it to, and then entering in their payment info. (Actually, that’s not a bad idea… who can do that?) Imagine showing up at home to 500 copies of A Christmas Carol on your doorstep?
We need to expose these guys as not just some “normal” form of greedy, but the kind of greed that goes above and beyond, into truly sinful levels. And we need to get them to sit down and think about it too.
Who’s with me?
I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
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