Situation "The New Normal" All F'ed Up
by Redd Phlagg
The
slang term “SNAFU” traces its history to World War II. Soldiers
used it in a tongue-in-cheek way to indicate that their normal
situation was anything but. Chaos was the norm. No surprises when
things looked
totally screwed—“That’s
SNAFU for you,” GI
Joe would have said with
a wink and a sigh.
SNAFU
covered all bases.
We’ve
entered
the time of the “The New Normal” that will be anything but the
normal we knew at the beginning of 2020. The
New Normal is
chaotic and
will leave many without employment, as their places
of business have
closed their
doors permanently.
The
New Normal will leave many questioning why their own government
treated this pandemic threat with such indifference and seemed
more concerned with bailing out big businesses and the banks at the
expense of the working classes yet again.
I hear you cry out, “This isn’t normal! How can it be our new normal?” but it won’t change things. Life will never be the same again. If you find yourself still breathing at the end of this month, you will find yourself having to come to terms with The New Normal or go insane. Alas, many of our family, friends and neighbors won’t have this chance because they exited this existence as the old normal faded away in a COVID-19 nightmare.
The
New Normal. Now
is not the time for niceties. Now is not the time to turn the other
cheek. Now is the time for action.
Yeah,
right. We’re talking about taking action, and we’re virtually
locked in our own homes.
All right, I didn’t say it was going to be easy, but nothing
worthwhile ever is, so
stop bellyaching and listen up.
We
must adjust to The New Normal, but we don’t have to let it f*** us
up. What do I mean by
that?
We may
find ourselves without health care coverage, without
a roof over our head and a way to provide for our families. Many
people alive in 2019 faced the same challenges, but so many
more—especially many who felt “safe in
the middle class”
in 2019—will experience this
same tragic situation, perhaps
for the first time in their lives in 2020.
The New Normal will demonstrate even more blatantly the gap between
the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor. Guess where the
vast majority of us will be in 2020? It’s
not going to be at the top, sorry.
Billionaires
hoard wealth and scared workers hoard toilet paper in the face of a
pandemic, and that scenario isn’t going away anytime soon unless we
stop whining and we work together. There is no reason for any
human being to have billions of dollars in their bank accounts, particularly when
their
employees slave
at sub-par wages in unsafe conditions without health benefits. There
is no reason for us to allow this situation to continue in The New
Normal. If we do, we’re f***ing ourselves over royally.
The
action we need to take in The New Normal is in the streets. We demand
better wages, UBI,
and universal health care or we strike and shut it down. All
of it down.
Most
other civilized nations on
the planet are
providing a decent monthly
payment
while their
workers
are unemployed or
seeking work
and all of them provide health care to their people. The US doesn’t
exist
in The
Old Normal world anymore, so there’s no reason why Americans have
to put up with being f***ed by our capitalist bosses and their
politician
puppets.
We
tell them, “You played around and delayed so you could sell off
your stock to make a cool profit while you watched the events in
the Wuhan province of China unfold and did nothing to safeguard our
health and safety. Your health and safety are now forfeit. You will
do as you’re told, or we will have your head on a pike at the
entrance to the city by sunset.”
It
worked for the French in 1789. It can work again in The New Normal.
These capitalist bastards care more about their stock markets than
they do our lives and health—so it’s time they learned their
lesson about how life will be in The New Normal. We f*** them over.
We don’t ever let them f*** us over again.
BIO: Redd Phlagg is determined to make it through the coronavirus pandemic to see The New Normal come to fruition for the people, not the oligarchs.
Vegematic shares some Shakespearean insults we can all make good use of in these trying times, and then gives us a good explanation of "disaster capitalism." Perhaps we should rename it "coronavirus capitalism"?
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That poster and the cartoon say it all. Capitalists do not and will not care about us.
ReplyDeleteIt's not good for business to care for the workers. They're just parts in the machine. Use them up, then toss them when they're broken. That's why we've got to define what "The New Normal" is going to be. It's going to be what we the workers say it's going to be.
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