It is what it is 'til it ain't anymore

Yes, voting matters

When you have a couple viral videos about how a few people have all our money because we tolerate a system planned out by cartoon villains 50 years ago to redistribute money from working people to a handful of paper-skinned nerd overlords… you get a handful of cynical comments about how our system is what it is and we’re all just gonna have to deal with it.

(That link about the cartoon villains is to the Powell Memo. Read up if you don’t know it already. The insane wealth gap and capture of our government/media is going exactly as planned).

This weeks videos are about two recurring comments in particular.

1. Voting is not going to change anything

2. All billionaire wealth added up wouldn’t fund the government for 6 months.

To quote Kacey Musgraves, “it is what it is, ‘til it ain’t anymore”. My good friend Matt Hildreth at RuralOrganizing.org is also a well known user of this quote. I mention it because you should check out the work RO is doing around misinformation and rural prosperity.

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