ANTI-CHRISTMAS - PART 2
It may save money to dump problem kids on teachers, but they
are not trained or paid to dedicate all their time to those problem kids. And
the learning outcomes, and future prospects and opportunities, of all the
students suffer as a direct result of those flawed laws, policies and
procedures. The children under this flawed system hear “no, don’t stop” are are
learning they can get away with anything. No accountability. No repercussions. They
take this ill-education and idiocy into the real world as unhinged adults who
inflict themselves on others.
It doesn’t really matter. It’s not like anyone in the public
education system is going anywhere. If you want to have a better chance at
getting into university, achieving good grades and obtaining high-wage
employment, you need to attend a private school and have parents with friends
in high places. My experience at uni revealled just how hard it is for people
who have to pay their own way, and work hard, only to watch lesser students get
better grades as money changes hands, or sexual favours are exchanged. Your
degree is worthless. It’s a sick fucking joke.
And for all those people out there, in the real world, who
struggle every day to get paid enough money to get by as we are told what we
get paid is what we ‘earn’, we know how twisted that joke has become. We are
told young people, old people, women, and other demographics are “worth less”,
blurring the two words into one and accepting those groups are “worthless”. What
someone ‘earns’ and what they are paid are usually two different things.
Consider the wages of factory and store workers compared to management. Now
remove the labour force that produces the product and tell me how much
management ‘earns’.
Now have a look at who gets paid hundreds of thousands, or
millions, and consider their efforts and results. Now tell me who’s worth less.
But it doesn’t end there. On top of that shitty wage in exchange for producing
often far in excess of your share in recompense, the labour too often gets to
suffer some of the worst workplace harrassment and bullying. Sure, there are
laws against it. Try to report it. See what happens. At best it will escalate
until you quit. At worst you will be fired and defamed to everyone you ever
worked with or attempt to ask for a job.
Will the Unions help? What about public services who are
supposed to help you? No. You are on your own, crippled for life. And when you
try to get your unpaid wages, you must struggle to provide evidence for your
claim, and only your former employer is afforded the presumption of innocence.
Forget about trying to claim unpaid Super. The ATO handles that and they won’t
investigate even if they claim they are. And when you catch them out, even with
the evidence of systemic failure, you will be bullied into silence by the ATO
and politicians.
And then, when you join the ranks of the nearly
three-quarters of a million officially unemployed in Australia, and fight with
every one of them and the almost two-million under-employed people for one of
the one-thousand advertised jobs that are (supposedly) available every day,
while struggling to survive on whatever savings you have or the $37 a day
(two-thirds of the official poverty rate) you may be fortunate enough to
receive as unemployment ‘benefits’, weather the abuses of the public and
Centrelink staff for being a bludger, and struggle with depression and anxiety
(and worse), you are not-so-subtley reminded that it’s your fault.
And even as they blame their victims, and refuse to do their
damn jobs, they are claiming huge wages and entitlements the equivalent of (base
salary) what twenty-plus unemployed people on full welfare benefits get, every
year. Even as people like Barnaby Joyce insists he represents farmers while at
the very same time as supporting mining companies and receiving kick-backs from
Gina Reinhart instead of campaigning for his seat. And he still won in a
landslide that looks as suspicious as his unhealthy, toxic tomato skin
colouring.
That’s right. It’s your fault that the government has failed
to create an environment that provides enough work and affordable housing for
everyone. Even though you have no control over these things and politicians do.
Even though the LNP politicians and their half-wit sycophants blame you for the
$10 billion spent on unemployment welfare while they are throwing $10 billion
dollars at Employment Agencies that don’t get people jobs, and $63 billion at
big business in the form of Tax breaks that will go into profits instead of
creating jobs. Those RWNJs will constantly remind you that it’s all your fault.
Even as the Julie Bishop accused Bill Shorten of colluding
with foreign powers to the point of declaring war on New Zealand. Again,
without any evidence whatsoever. Even as One Nation nutjob Steven Dickson, in
defence of his party’s pro-domestic violence stance (and a disgusting ‘joke’ along
the same lines on a website for a sex shop owned by one of hisparty’s
candidates), claimed schools were teaching little girls, ten-years of age, how
to masturbate and use sex toys. Again, with no evidence to support his
insanity. Seriously, who thinks like that?!
Well, in the US, the Republican Party does. They are all very
conservative and holier than thou with their self-righteous Bible thumping, but
in reality, they are the very worst hypocrites who don’t hesitate to committ
all the vile sins of which they accuse others. They will happily elect any
racist, misogynist, rapist, paedophile and fraudster who bullies and silences
their victims, all the while claiming it’s better than electing someone who
upholds the ideologies of both Jesus Christ and the US: a Democrat. And that
idocy has also infected our own political system.
But, again, how is this all possible? Ultimately, we are
responsible for who is elected. We can blame a very small, vocal minority for
all the disgraceful abundance of ignorance, arrogance, bigotry, hypocrisy,
narcissism and general idiocy, but a minority doesn’t provide enough support to
vote into office self-centred arseholes that fuck-up our society. We are all
responsible for this shit mess. We have allowed rotten politicians to dictate
the terms, and relinquished any form of control that would allow us to demand
they be removed from office before the next election.
How is it that the minority of people are morally bankrupt
yet their demands are the ones that set laws, policies and procedures, even
when the majority disagree? How is it that the majority of people are wage
workers, who have a task-outline or contract that sets terms and conditions for
employment and dismissal, yet the ruling class can breach their employment
contract but continue to remain in their positions of power? Why is the most
obvious solution unattainable?
Why can’t we have a committee of volunteer community
representatives, nominated through a six-monthly vote of residents, to maintain
some form of control over the political representative of every electorate? It
could be funded by part of a politician’s wages and allowances, and actual
taxes on big businesses. They could provide feedback to the politician (who is
supposed to represent all of the voters, yet apparently too busy to meet with
them, to a point where they fail to actually represent them), and dismiss that
politician under extreme circumstances.
If, for example, that politician fails to gain the confidence
of the community they represent, in a voluntary vote held every three months,
they receive a warning. Combined with a three strikes and you’re out approach,
it would result in a by election where that representsative may not run. Yes,
it could well see a ruling Party lose majority and trigger a general election,
but this simply provides greater incentive for them to do their damn jobs and
represent the voters.
We could hold the vote on the first day of every new season.
We could have a market, carnival or general sausage sizzle on the day to raise
money for local schools or some other community project. The community could
get together, vote, chat, and indicate in some way that they give a damn about
local politics. Make it mandatory for politicians to attend and people could
actually meet their local elected, and alternative, representatives as they
exchange information.
Already the voices being raised against this are deafening.
We already have Councils. Yes, we do. They get paid a lot of money, are under
the influence of big business, and fail to represent the people, just like
State and Federal politicians. Volunteers would not be paid and would have to
be accountable for any conflict of interest but, more importantly, would
provide a means to negate the brutal oppression that prevents victims from
banding together to seek justice. When there is community anger, politicians
would have to respond or risk an immediate backlash, real consequences that
cannot be avoided as the news cycle moves on and public forget.
The arguments against this approach to real representation
only further prove the need to install such a system. The claim it creates instability
in government and an inability to get things done, under a system where the
public can remove politicians at a ‘whim’, reveals unwillingness to abide by
community expectations and wishes. It only proves the notion that politicians
believe it is their right to rule the
people rather than their honour to represent
the people.
This Christmas, wouldn’t it be nice to actually give people
what they need rather than just what they want. Wouldn’t it be nice to actually
mean it if you ask RUOK, and then act on that to help people? Wouldn’t it be
great to take steps to act on the anger and attitudes of the majority regarding
injustice and do something to fix the problems? Wouldn’t it be great to encourage
people to say, how can I help, and slap down arseholes who blame and mock
victims in that vile effort to silence them so that predators can continue to
inflict harm?
Wouldn’t it be awesome if people treated others with respect
and put in place representatives who actually responded to problems in laws,
policies and procedures by investigating, exposing and correcting moral
bankruptcy and injustices? Wouldn’t it be awesome if real victims were afforded
the same presumption of innocence as the accused? Wouldn’t it be awesome if
there were laws, policies and procedures that protected the rights of victims
and witnesses, and set in place a means to protect those vulnerable people in
legal actions and situations?
Forget the bullshit blame game where those that actually have
the means to affect positive change do nothing more than defame their victims
and accuse them of being somehow at fault. Forget about mindlessly absorbing
and spewing out “fake news” at better educated people who actually bother to
engage and think. Forget the bullshit whining about “happy holidays” in order
to shove the self-righteous “Merry Christmas” religious hypocrisy down the
throats of all those non-Christians who also live in this world, many the
victims of those very ‘Churches’.
Instead, imagine how good Christmas would be if people
actually applied the teachings of Christ instead of enabling hypocrites and
parasites to inflict themselves on others over the holidays. Even over the
year. Imagine all the people who suffer depression over this time because of
the beatings, teft, defamation and other hardships they have suffered at the
hands of predators. Imagine them feeling safe enough to participate. Imagine
what it would be like to feel like they belong. What it’s like to feel
happiness. Joy. An emotion other than fear, anger, powerlessness and emptiness.
This is not about giving people money. Nobody wants a
hand-out. Well, some do. But most of us just want the simple dignity and
justice of a hand-up. Most of us want people in position of authority or public
attention to really speak for us and affect real positive change. If the
majority of us are sick and tired of predators inflicting themselves on others,
and getting away with it, then why the hell do we still elect more predators
into positions of authority to run political protection rackets that isolate
and silence victims while concealing and enabling predators, crime, systemic
failure, and injustice?
Christ was not some mythical person we only remember was born
at Christmas, and whose teachings we claim to practice despite our obvious
hypocrisies, then quickly forget as we rush to celebrate unjustly nailing him
to a Cross on Easter. He was a dude that saw injustices and gave us some simple
guidelines on how we could live better lives and help others to create a fairer
world. His wisdom is in the same Holy Bible upon which politicians swear upon to
uphold the very same ideologies… yet immediately set about circumventing for
their own benefit.
This Christmas, think about how lucky you are and the
misfortune of too many others. Think about what you can do to help instead of
hinder them. And if you are one of the unfortunates, have the courage to ask for
help and share your ‘story’ with others. Don’t let bullies continue to inflict
misery upon you. Look what happens when enough victims band together, and
someone finally speaks for those victims, to affect positive change. Never
forget, those who are silent may be said to condone, but those who force others
to remain silent are complicit.
ANTI-CHRISTMAS - PART 1
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