Strike!

We are all on a rent strike. Our city councilman, one of the cooler and more dedicated ones, came to cheer us on and give us some backbone. Time for a change. Time for power.

I've been thinking that one of the worst things about the modern conservative movement is that it discounts social justice and solidarity for the purposes of greed. It wants to drown government in the bathtub so we all can go out and live like rich people, except if we aren't, then we live like serfs, only we work in Wal-Mart instead of in the fields. When the going gets tough the tough get rich and let the poor drown. And then they cover their shame with Jesus bullshit and crap like fear of everything that doesn't look like Dick and Jane.

Their response to terrorism has been lame, but it is also something like an auto-immune disorder where the antibodies attack the body itself. They are fundamentalists too.

So, it is time to strike, no matter how small. Time to show solidarity. Time to not be a serf.