Forget the politicians, they are an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. you have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pocket. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They’ve got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want: they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.
But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They are not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
You know what they want? Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it is the same club they used to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think, what to buy.
The table has tilted, folks, the game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people - white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard working people continue - these are people of modest means - continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all. At all. At all. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.
That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the true: it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it".
George Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008)
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