They Don’t Care, The New Americans
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, April 29, 2025 – If a dozen years of public instruction fails to produce the population of independent, liberty-loving freedom fighters required for proper operation of the American experiment in government of, for, and by the people, then the Fight Oligarchy tour headlined by Bernie and AOC won’t either.
But, I hear the merch is selling like hot-cakes, as was said back in the day, when it was time for Bernie’s generation to serve ordinary blue collar working people.
Sad to say, the spirited AOC spent little more than a minute as an ordinary blue collar working person before the Democratic party’s Big Blue Machine elevated her to the exalted status of a public policy sales professional.
For most of her working life since graduating college, AOC has been CEO of her own political business, with a salary nearing $200,000 and another $2 million for staff. She and Bernie can read and hear about our pain, but they are perfectly insulated from it. (And whenever they feel real pain, their labor contracts include the best free health insurance in history – way better than yours and mine.)
Oligarchy is a vocabulary word for high school civics class, same as socialism, communism, and trickle-down Reaganomics. It’s an abstraction and, like all such things, it shouldn’t be allowed outside classrooms without a hall pass approved by the principle of self-governance, not the principal of errant pedagogy.
The people love their WhiteHoused felon because he makes them proud of the ignorance they were born with and from which they swear they’ll never be woke(n).
It ain’t the oligarchy stupid, it’s the stupidity bred in the petrie dish of public education that political professionals ought to yell at us about. One billion dollars was spent to prevent MAGA’s re-election. How much good that money could have done in the hands of poor people, people with unpayable medicine, doctor, and hospital bills.
That nobody is clamoring for a refund only encourages another trillion solicitations for another billion dollars to fund such sideshows as the Fight Oligarchy tour. The big beneficiary of all that wasted money is the publicity business that drives the political carnival, that fills up the tank of the political clown car.
Yell at your media device all you want, but it won’t change a thing. That’s where the money goes. Having rendered print media obsolete, electronic media elevates and empowers non-readers, anti-intellectuals, and people who disdain the liberal arts educations that made America good enough to rescue civilization from two suicide attempts last century.
Yet we elect the son of a man who celebrated Hitler and who made his Secretary of Health and Human Services the grandson of another Hitler appeaser, whose own siblings and cousins warned is a threat to public health.
“I’m not going to lie to you” has become almost an automatic way too many people preface whatever they have to say. That suggests that today lying is the norm – of course it is. Even MAGA-friendly Washington Post presents documentary evidence that POTUS lied or dissembled 35,000 times while in office the first time.
For the people to request a second dose of such deceitful leadership proves that a shocking indifference to the truth has become a principle characteristic of the American people. Read that again. If that statement isn’t true, nothing is true. (President Lincoln wrote: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong”)
It is the national appetite for bullshit that Bernie and AOC should aim their quixotic lances at. The people didn’t fail to learn the basic principles of self-governance at home alone. They were warehoused in public classrooms where wave after wave of poorly paid, inadequately trained teachers accomplished little more than afford parents time to staff morning and afternoon shifts in the fastfood and fast commerce sector.
People vote for people, even un-principled people, as both sides know. Whatever queasyness the people felt about Bill Clinton’s history with women was down to zero by the time they heard the Access Holywood tape or the E. Jean Carroll verdict.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had to promise to quit drinking before being handed keys to America’s tanks, F-16s, B-52s, submarines, and aircraft carriers. Yet nobody demands POTUS to forswear rape. That double-standard spells doom for the Republican party – the people hate nothing so much as they hate hypocrisy.