On Hanging Together

Some claim I'm a pessimist.

Not true.

I'm an optimist.

Things always turn out worse than I predict.

This is a post from 2015, titled "Block the Kochs":

When Dylan sang "Your old road is rapidly agin'/Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand/For the times they are a-changin'," he was sending out a warning to the establishment of the day, the old order, the holders of the reins of authority, the guardians of business-as-usual.

And the times changed all right, just not the way he predicted. Now, it is we the people who need to heed the warning. The counter-revolution is nearly over. The oligarchs' final victory is around the next turn of the road. Despite the valiant resistance of individuals all over the planet, there are still too few willing to lend a hand. Difficult as it will be, we have to find the way to collective action.

"We must all hang together," Franklin said, "or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

2015 seems like a long time ago.