A Revolution in Summer 2021 Draws Near

The phrase "a revolution of rising expectations" became popular after World War II. It refers to a situation in which a rise in prosperity and freedom leads people to believe they can improve life for themselves and their families. It leads them to seek political changes that will allow them to pursue opportunity. We now live in such a time. A time when we shed the shackles of the past, like the minimum wage and replace it with a living wage. A time in which we get smart about recreational drug use and monetize it appropriately. These two intelligent actions will reduce poverty and much of the crime, hopelessness, addiction that comes with it. When people have meaningful work and are paid a living wage It is good for the working person's economy, mental and physical health, and promotes common good for society. It is a positive step on the path to fair sharing of the wealth of this once great nation. If you are one of the millions of Americans who work paycheck to paycheck, often fall behind due to unexpected expenses like a car repair, necessary home repair, or unanticipated prescription drug costs, you need to support legislation to replace the minimum wage with a living wage. It is good for the working person's economy, mental and physical health, and promotes common good for society. It is a positive step on the path to fair sharing of the wealth of this once great nation.

Interesting note from history, in times of rising expectations came revolts, revolutions, and riots. Another possibility is the revenge of unrealistic expectations like clinging to an all-white past that never existed in the first place.

From the Washington Post on July 24, 2016 Robert J Samuelson wrote. It's the Revolution of Rising Expectations Again.

He says in part:

Watching Donald Trump last week, I thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political philosopher whose "Democracy in America," published circa the 1830s, remains the most insightful study of our national character. But it was Tocqueville's other masterpiece, "The Old Regime and the Revolution" (1856), that came foremost to mind. In it, he outlined what we now call the "revolution of rising expectations" — a concept highly relevant to the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

As new leaders are sworn in it is obligatory of all of us to hold them accountable. We should expect nothing less than high standards of decency, diplomacy, and most important, integrity. We need far less inertia and more integrity. We need to eradicate the liars. In broadcasting, fake entertainment, in our House and Senate, and in our lives.

I keep thinking our legislative bodies, at all levels, need among their ranks, more independent thinkers. Women and men who will listen carefully to all points of view, and reserve judgement, until all who wish to be, are not only heard, but listened to. Analysis of this kind requires the viewer to see through an unbiased, unclouded, broad lens, one they can keenly focus in depth, on the substantive, and core issues. Are we not a nation of independent people committed to having tolerance for the views, and ideas of others?

Or are we mindless chickens, hiding in the shadows of our coops out of an overwhelming fear of a fox that does not exist, and denying the truth while embracing apathy and self-importance? Those who disguise themselves by wearing dark sunglasses in dim light shield their minds from true freedom, and the dazzling, penetrating light of truth. They fool no one but themselves. But what is worse are people who spread lies in broad daylight preying on large unsuspecting audiences of people who are afraid and continue to be misinformed by political predators and liars. The liars hope that you will take them at their word.

The future is not imposed upon us. The future is ours to shape as long as we refuse to be gullible and do not allow ourselves to be prey to political opportunities with only their perverse interests at heart. This is not optional. Because we are self-reflecting beings, but we must choose to do so or lose our voice, and eventually our lives, in vain.

We are witness to a significant, palpable trend in how we govern ourselves. The Federal level is now inept and incapable of breaking the bonds of self-imposed tyrannies. Washington is ripe and rife with tyranny. We witness the tyranny of lobbyists, though most of it is hidden from our view, inserted in our laws, and imposed upon inept lawmakers seeking only their immoral self-interests. All of this has one thing in common, greed. Then there is the tyranny of self-defeating partisanship; it is the well-experienced practitioner's blinded from unconsciously selected biases and ideas imposed, not their own. Last, and worst of all, is the tyranny of corruption, so ingrained it has become normalized even though most of it is vaguely illegal. Tyranny, like water, seeks its level. Tyranny is the soul of corruption.

The epicenter of corruption is now Washington, DC. It is for this reason that its power to govern has become impotent, chaotic, and illogical. It is a fencing match with no winner, but we, the people, continue to lose the most. This must stop now.

The Federal government's power is streaming away from this epicenter, leak after leak toward local governing bodies. It streaks naked past the state level unabashed and unafraid, to where it belongs, in the hands of the people in our counties, cities, townships, villages, and neighborhoods.