Socialist Club

Today i saw an ad in town, identifying a meeting of the Socialist Club. The discussion was about the economic crisis, climate change, government and the need for revolution.

I showed up to the meeting, and a lovely lady named Michelle Robidaux was giving the lecture. She is in her 40's and has been a socialist since high school. She definitely was interested in revolution, but when i asked her if the revolutionaries can expect the help of the police in escorting traffic in their rallies, she skimmed over my question as unnecessary.

To be honest, i got the feeling that the entire Socialist Club, were a bunch of liberals that wanted to fight for reform within the system. Don't they understand that it is largely the system to blame for mistreatments of the borgousie whole today.

I had a guest lecture this week. He grew up as a hippy but handed in his reefer for a nice black suit and decided to work for the government. Currently, he is trying to address the problem of the public service diminishing (because of baby boomers retiring) while the services that the citizens need are increasing. The governments plan, is to not address this problem by hiring more people, and to do more work with less people. But the problem they run into, is when someone has a creative idea, all the ministers beat the shit out of that idea, then it goes to the house and the opposition beats the shit out of it, and then this pile of shit which does not resemble the original idea, takes 2 years of paperwork before it officially becomes law.

Wouldn't it be great if the government could announce a plan, and workers could be standing by to build it immediately. One gets to ride on the new buses the city provides, even before the newspapers are reporting the news. is this too idealistic? Or maybe the government is just too slow?

viva la revolution