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Rhymes With "Brass Seagull"'s avatar

Well said. I appreciate you mentioning the Glass-Steagall Act, which after all is my namesake 😊

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Christofer Nigro's avatar

Ha ha! And thanks!

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Rhymes With "Brass Seagull"'s avatar

You're very welcome 😁

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J C's avatar

I think many of us know. We just can't figure what to do.

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Christofer Nigro's avatar

Understandable, considering we have no tools or collective plan and constantly hit with propaganda that tells us we have the "best possible system" and that there is no better alternative. But what we need to agree on first is that simply going back and forth between the Dems and Repubs, and continuously tolerating billionaire rule, and trying to vote for the "least worst" among them, is getting us nowhere fast. It shouldn't have to go on for another 50 years to convince us of that much. Change is scary, but we have to embrace it or we're dooming ourselves or the world.

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J C's avatar

Absolutely! I'm 76 years old. I listened to Dylan and Baez. That said, people listen to words. For whatever reason, many don't connect the actions.

We (many of us) older people have been witnesses. Many don't pay attention. Dumbing down education, etc. You know.

Every single area is dominated by crapitalists and their minions. We The People (how quaint!) have allowed this wrecking crew to amass the tech and more power. We needed to rid ourselves of them long ago.

How has always been the question. We have been sold bad values. Ethics is in short supply. You know. I don't need to go on preaching to the choir. I chose to value ethics long ago.

Sadly, we working class folks can't afford to help every writer here.

Learned helplessness, despair and powerlessness is high. Sigh. BTW: I think you say this clearly here. ☺️

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Christofer Nigro's avatar

Thank you, JC, for your words of support and for making it clear that some people do listen to what needs to be said. But yes, the learned helplessness factor is a major one, as there are doubtless a number of people who know we need to rid ourselves of these billionaires and tech barons, but simply think there is nothing we can do about it. So, they resign themselves to a third world war and our continued, increasing impoverishment at their hands. Sooner or later, however, things are going to get bad enough that we will be spurred to action once survival mode overrides the learned helplessness. And it comes down to continued class rule or the survival of the vast majority of us.

And it is indeed too difficult for most working class people to afford every single writer on here. That's why Substack needs to take a cue from their rival, Medium, and offer an affordable package deal where writers get paid for their hard work but readers can also afford to read and support as many as they want. We can't contribute to our living expenses and get the message out to potentially millions of workers if the latter has to pay a minimum of $5.00 to read the majority of posts of every writer they like and want to support. The administration of Substack needs to take heed!

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J C's avatar

I agree. I'm a poet of sorts. I'm reluctant to post here or seek money. Thanks for your responses, Chistofer. Many writers can't be bothered by we the little people. ☺️

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Christofer Nigro's avatar

No probs, my friend. The 'little people' include me, and they're the ones I'm here for and looking out for :-)

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J C's avatar

Many thanks. 🫂

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Mitch Ritter's avatar

Nothing quite like a well-turned dialectic on class and individual immobility to dispense with any soothing warmth summer and the longest chilliest then wettest day of this season so far might offer by way of buoyant lifeline within reach of one being pulled under by the grip or gravity sucking with the force of inevitability and a fatal lack of the necessary abilities.....

This here piece "Some Harsh Facts the Working Class Need to Accept About All Capitalists" scribbled by Christofer Nigro and published above under the moniker Lightning Press on this June 23, 2025 begs many questions blossoming and sprouting from our most prudent search for the steps that we break in via disciplined efforts.

Like a rip-rap that we pick up each day, albeit such work days be way too short to accomplish much of anything lasting. Yet, if only our solidified efforts could or would amount to something flexible and durable as systemic advancement, while producing a new vision larger than any one of US could conceive or hope to achieve over generations of sustained efforts. Even if undertaken not by fallible US, but by some necessarily adaptable and of course Marvelous Super Heroes & Sheroes.

Only then, by figuring out the steps and most energy-efficient direction and ways to choreograph them will we be required to join our personal vision to a larger blended national vision that requires some forethought and planning, all while working with a nation of individuals that welcome a communal challenge.

What direction should each of US individually e-merge from, then direct and empower our larger disparate group into while penny-wisely energizing all-the-while self-regulating our interdependent progress so that it yet furthers some socially repurposed space we will need to be made a part of? Wherefore and how do we come by some such new scratch after finding some common ground with a precisely power-adjusted, if only intermittently wise cadre grown into community meanwhile culminating in a necessarily changed series and set of communal efforts fit to specs required?

Heuristics, or critical thinking and trouble-shooting shortcuts will be required in every step of communal planning through joint action and challenging changes of direction that such an evolutionary task will require.

We've got the will. Yet how do we smoothly synthesize the communal challenges and then join our forces for net gain that advances all of US instead of following our personal his\herstory that got US here, when we can see we now need to get to somewhere together and Over There?

Substack readers have shimmied and even turned and entrusted to an AI type of computerized conductor able to fuse one individual's (okay, a long-proven and clearly tested, if testier than most accomplished person) widely published, sourced and social battle scarred track record that has been curated both individually and institutionally by many discordant and sometimes harmonious students and strivers after such communal if not national much less natural challenges.

There is hardly any such concordance, but give a listen and jot some notes while you're listening and absorbed and then get back to US and let's see if we can cobble some kind of outline together of where we need to get to and how to get there on the limited budget, patience, fuel, reason and mapping skills, in short stumble via collective effort and resourcefulness we can muster together and that we will need to have access to, both within ourselves and within our communal synthesis of sparkling and sustained problem-solving... :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9MJNSlgww

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