"I just thought of this!" - Let's Actually Do Something

Donald the Trumpeter makes calls to action and revolution this way, based on whatever bubbles up in his brain. Deep thinking likely causes him struggles, as we’re about to see when he has to go head to head with Hillary. Still, he does try to take pride in rallying his supposed forces with off-the-cuff proclamations that, at some level, must be designed to move his forces to … well … do something.

On the other hand, there is also the Bernie Sanders type. “The Bern” proclaims, in a much more intellectual way, a similar call to collective, democratic action. He says he has a life-long commitment to bringing about a revolution against economic imbalance. Though in fairness, it appears that it wasn’t until the exploitation by the rich floated up to an undeniable level of ugliness that his focus turned to transforming intellectual anger into populous reaction -- meaning using a collective sense of better-reasoned logic and motivation to … well … do something.

Which means, from a long view, that these two potential leaders are in fact bookends of a very similar connectivity of opportunities -- individuals who are trying to reach past our elected representatives to get us to be the source of our own solutions.

Only thing is that whether their crowds be average folks or smarter people comfortable in their more cerebral celebrations, both ends are getting noticed but nothing is actually looking like it will get done. No one moved a muscle past tapping on their screens when Trump called for a boycott of Apple, any more than … say … to question why we are all (at every economic level) getting the profits squeezed out of us by the gasoline and oil sectors who are feeling their own burn of change.

For either Trump or Sanders to live up to their promises, at some point they do have to marshal their forces towards something other than just voting in anger. Yet we see nothing that suggests an awareness of this even in the face of an exploitation both sides should be able to agree on. At below $30, the actual barrels of oil are worth more than their contents. But still we let capitalism at its crassest and democratic socialism in its highest form reign in silence while we pull up to get pumped dry by undeniable greed.

The call for a return to American economic greatness by Trump & Co. is premised on the belief that if we can all blast our own duck calls, the global market forces will gleefully reward our desire for fair and just returns. If wealth and riches don’t exactly rain down upon us, we should still be able to drive to their sources and cash in on the promises of worth. But it isn’t really happening … because we still struggle to pay for the fuel to get there. And there is little indication that these folks are willing to get up off of their TV couches to move in a different direction at all.

Then again, rest easy Bernie Brains. The same can pretty much be said for your side of what could be an easily sustainable teeter-totter of possibilities. Even armed with mightier and higher principals (with or without the requisite prescription), it seems that we’re mostly willing to just pay the pump and wait for alternative fuels to be available to carry us to our promised lands. We’re really not all that much better at getting up and collaborating with others to bring the doers and thinkers of better times to action … and the result is that not much preparation is being made to get things done. 

When revolutions are in the making, people have to join together even if we don’t like or understand each other. Market economics have forever thought that consumers could, would, should do this be naturally exercising the call to right the wrongs of exploitation. Decades of conservative fiscal strategies have proven this assumption completely untenable, as have gatherings of deeper intellectualism seeking to burn other houses down.

I admit I just thought of this ... but it does seem worth considering if one side of the other actually wants to get something done.