Good start
Thank you, Leah DeAnda for publicly introducing my book “Random Thoughts” in the July 5 edition of the Record-Bee. More importantly, I especially commend you for your moving article “Climate Change is Real” in the July 3 edition. If I had read that essay of yours before you interviewed me regarding my book “Random Thoughts,” it would have put a different slant on my expectations as to where the world is headed with the citizenry asleep at the wheel.
The situation eminently facing us does not look promising. The medial masses are easily kept content by small favors from the inconceivably rich — remember the new refrigerators dispensed, I believe, to elect Bush — That had to cost a pretty penny; at least it would appear to us to be so: can you imagine a trillion dollars?
And the corporations may have our government in their pocket via the lowly bribe. Where money is not controlled the rich will rule, and money will not be controlled because money is power.
But the case is far from hopeless. Someone, I forget who or when, said to the effect of “give me a billion dollars and you can have your laws.” Very well, we live in a plutocracy; we will have to play by plutocratic rules. What are plutocrats? Plutocrats are, taken all round, the most virtuous members of our society. Being rich doesn”t, of itself, make them bad. True, they have to take a lot of abuse because they have two things we all want: wealth and power.
What to do for the best? Why, one very important thing to do is to just what you did, Leah DeAnda, on July 3. Their hide is at risk, Leah DeAnda, as well as ours. They are literate and intelligent, they can weigh pros and cons; so write so factually, so persuasive, that… well, get some of them on our side and you”ve got something.
— Dean Sparks, Lucerne
