Who ARE these People? They're the Vast Majority Who Currently Act As If They Were a Tiny Impotent Minority.

This is a solvable problem!

LET'S ACT LIKE THE MAJORITY THAT WE ARE!

Take a look at the more than 500 people whose photos are online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/182436693@N06/, a small sample of whom are shown above. More than 500 of these individuals posed for a photo in Brighton (02135), a neighborhood of Boston, MA where I live [a few were in other zip codes] proudly displaying the sign that says, "We the People want affordable housing for ALL. To get it we aim to remove the rich from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor."

Look at these people! If you live in Brighton they are your neighbors. If you live elsewhere in any typical U.S. town, they are just like your neighbors. They are like the people you run into while shopping. If you live in Brighton then you probably will recognize some of them--look and see (there are several pages of photos online to look at.)

Among these 500+ people you don't see big time lawyers or professors or Big Business types. You see working class people--who are the vast majority in neighborhoods like Brighton (such as Allston and the other Boston neighborhoods.)

These people don’t KNOW they’re the vast majority and THAT’s why they don’t act like it

The sign these people are holding makes it clear what they want. But I know, from having asked them (it was I who took the photos), that they think it is impossible to remove the rich from power. They'd love for that to happen, but they don't think it ever will. Why not? It's because they think too few people want to make it happen. And they know it will take LOTS of people to remove the rich from power. What they DON'T know is this: LOTS of people already want it to happen. That's why it was so easy for me to take so many photos of people saying they want it to happen. (By the way, for every person who agreed to be photographed holding the sign, there were others who also agreed with the sign but who didn’t want to be photographed holding it for reasons such as: “I’m afraid my employer might see it” and “Oh dear, I don’t have my makeup on.”)

Few, if any, of the 500+ people in these photos are activists in the neighborhood for things like more affordable housing and an end to the proliferation of luxury housing (i.e., gentrification). Why not? It's because they feel hopeless. They don't think anything they could do would make a real difference because, as they know full well, we live in a fake democracy that is really a dictatorship of the rich; and they don't think it is possible to remove the rich from power. But it IS possible. Read how here. It's possible because the vast majority of people want it to happen, and they will--once they KNOW they are the vast majority in this aspiration--build the egalitarian revolutionary movement aiming to make it happen. We need to help people discover they are the vast majority in this regard. Then hopelessness will turn into hopefulness and activism.

In contrast, the actual small minority—the upper middle class types who dare not fight the ruling plutocracy—ACT like they were the vast majority

Right now, unfortunately, the activists in our neighborhood are the big time lawyers and professors and Big Business types. These kinds of people are the leaders in organizations such as the Brighton Allston Community Coalition (BACC). They only PRETEND to fight to make the neighborhood better for its working class residents (as I discuss here.) They believe (or pretend to believe!) that the way to make the rich and powerful (the haves) grant at least some wishes of the have-nots is by being--to use the BACC's favorite word--"civil": this means NEVER saying the truth about how we live in a fake democracy; it means politely expressing our views as if the Mayor were truly our representative and just needed to know what we wanted; it means telling the rich developers how they can STILL make a profit [see item #3 here about profit] by including more affordable units; it means NEVER saying "We aim to remove the rich from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor," because that would frighten the rich and powerful and not be "civil" and would make us lose "credibility" [go here about "credibility."]

The actual majority only wins when it ACTS like the majority to make the rulers FEAR them

Contrary to what the big time lawyers and professors and Big Business types tell us, the way--the ONLY way!--to make the haves yield at all to the have-nots is by the have-nots making the haves FEAR what may happen to them (being removed from power) if they don't stop treating us like dirt. This is how the have-nots won Social Security in the 1930s (read about it here.) This is how Americans abolished the racist Jim Crow laws [read about it here.]

Please go here to see what I wrote several years ago about what good people in Brighton and Allston were doing to stop the obscene proliferation of luxury housing (i.e., gentrification) that is driving working class folks out.

If you agree with the egalitarian revolutionary aspiration of these wonderful neighbors of mine, please read here how YOU can help build the egalitarian revolutionary movement, the key strategy of which is to help wonderful people like my neighbors learn that they are the vast majority, not a tiny impotent minority.