Why we fight

The first reason for fighting should always, always be because it's right. However, that should be obvious! More subtly, we should fight when it becomes clear that someone has to, yet no one seems able to, or willing. When there is a need that must be addressed.

The particulars will change based on the issue, but here I show you one face of the enemy, regardless of the issue. Because, men like Rush and his ilk will almost always be on the wrong side of any given issue, but that's not even the worst part. The worst part is they are trolls, UberTrolls at the highest level, who really only care about themselves and their wallets. Any cause or issue they say they believe in is irrelevant, since they will change their convictions overnight if it helps the profit margin. No, Rush et al are the enemy because they have an audience under thrall, fairly big audiences, and they will fill these people's heads full of lies and poison, every day of the week. They are agents of destruction bent only on their own personal enrichment, and all the poor saps who believe their lies are nothing but cannon fodder, to be used and abused. Think of any picture you've seen of a Teabagger - did they look rich and/or well educated to you? No, because they are not. In fact, they need health care reform as much anyone.

And yet, because of people like Rush, they'll instead be willing to spit on Civil Rights heroes. They'll condemn America, because Rush told them to. They'll commit treason because there's a Democrat in the White House. And psst... He's "black".

It's the media that's the problem. Rush is a nice big fat symbol of this problem, but it's not just him. Ask yourself this, for example: In an age of ever declining revenues, but where drug advertisements supply more and more of the ad revenue TV stations need, do you really think a company like GE is somehow out to get a company like Pfizer? Or, is it more likely these two behind-the-scenes players will be in cahoots, for each other's benefit? Global corporations with vested interests in the other succeeding.

That's our world. Now, the question is - will you do anything about it?


Some people are, and have. And it might be making a difference. It did this weekend, that's for sure. Ultimately, of course, nothing has any meaning other than the one and only meaning - the transformation of energy. But that's Existentialist ground and the easy answer to that is here we are, living our lives, together. Should we not strive to make these lives better? That's why we fight: Because we ought to.