'Revolutionary' Get-Rich-Quick-Ism

Wishful thinking feels soooo good.

Wishful thinking is fun. I get it.

It’s fun to believe that we can remove the rich from power and thus stop them from treating us like dirt without the bother of having to build a mass revolutionary movement to do that.

How nice it is to believe that all it takes to remove the rich from power is to:

• invoke the ‘domestic violence’ clause of the U.S. Constitution; or

• pass a campaign finance reform law; or

  

• tax the billionaires a bit more; or

  

• vote for a good politician; or

• only buy products from ‘good’ corporations; or

• don’t buy products from ANY corporation; or

• create a cooperative business; or

• grow your own food and make your own clothes, etc.; or

• issue a CALL for a general strike; or

• become a saint and persuade others to do it too; or

• tell people about some secret evil deed of the rich that will shock them into rising up to remove the rich from power; or

• write a devastating criticism of the status quo; or

• prove that some rich people are pedophiles or sex-traffickers; or

• persuade people to replace their (supposedly) bad values with good values; or

• wait for things to get so bad that people will have to rise up; or

• explain to the rich that it is really in their own interest to remove themselves from power; or

• just wish REALLY HARD AND REALLY SINCERELY for the rich to be removed from power.

If you prefer wishful-thinking to reality-thinking then hey, here are some WONDERFUL things you don’t want to miss out on:

Good for what ails ye:

This bridge is for sale cheap. $5 and it’s yours!

Don’t listen to those kill-joys who say we need to build a mass egalitarian revolutionary movement and that you’re gullible for thinking otherwise. Gullible is a bogus concept, don’t you know? The word isn’t even in the dictionary!