Right Wing Populism: Resistance — Civil Disobedience — Boycott: ‘Stop the Money’s Flow’
History is full of them: The ugly representatives of all those who worship money and power. Ugly not because they are repulsive in appearance but because their character is obnoxious to the point of non-existence.
Just as history can teach us about the waves of followers forming in certain intervals, the patterns, or repeating actions and reactions, so it can about the remedy against them: money.
“Get them where their purse strings are,” or words to that effect somebody used a while ago.
Another similar expression comes from Latin: ‘cui bono’ — ‘who benefits?’
Wherever we know or hear or find out about connected businesses or deals, we can say ‘no’.
We won’t buy into it. We won’t buy their goods, be that groceries, clothes, devices — or weapons. ‘Buying into war’? Yes, resisting them on all levels, by letting them hear our voices, by not conforming to those age-old behaviour strategies, or ‘buying into’ the propaganda that makes us believe, war is the only way ‘out’. It never was — and never will be.
I seem to detect a certain atmosphere of resignation, of hopelessness in some circles: will it ever be alright?
Yes — and no. If we lie down and think it’s over — it may be.
If you ‘fight’, you might lose. If you do not ‘fight’, you already have lost.
One comfort I can see when looking at all those reports and research into history:
The numbers are more or less the same, percentages of ‘believers’, of followers.
And that’s true around the globe, which is interesting: Brazil, the US, Germany, France, Norway, Italy, you name them…it’s around 26–33% of the population at peak times.
That is, times where many feel they have been left behind in terms of salary and appropriate living conditions.
When times are good for most, and not just a few, those rates of followers, of voters, often even sink below 5%.
So, let’s not be quiet, let them hear what we feel — and let them feel it at their purse strings: We do not give up. We will continue to be a counterpoise and let them understand that life is more than an arrow on a financial gain chart.
An African proverb apparently runs like this:
If many ‘little’ people in many ‘little’ places all around the world do many ‘little’ things – they can change the face of the Earth.
