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In reply to the discussion: So, what are your plans since the glorious revolution is not coming? [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)Let's make being wealthy so unpleasant that the wealthy choose to not be wealthy. No revolution, no need for actual violence...just build an eventually-critical mass of people who refuse to work for them or do business with them on any equitable level, actively discriminate against them, never pass up an opportunity to do something purely because it'll make their lives suck a bit more. Let them suffer our active contempt. Sow evil unto them in our good deeds.
If I had a piece of land and it was next to Mitt Romney's piece of land and he wanted a 4' easement...I'd demand $1B and I'd tell him upfront that I was spending most of the money to destroy the things he loves in life. If I found David Koch's wallet in the street, I'd burn it rather than return it. If I was selling a product, I'd sell them for a loss before I'd ever sell one to Eric Cantor. Get in front of Rush Limbaugh's car on a single-lane no-passing-road in which runs in front of the police station...and drive as slow as legally-possible. If I had a dog, it would never crap anywhere but the best front lawns in gated communities. Actively conspire to make sure that nobody will mow Sheldon Adelson's lawn for any sum of money. Open a homeless shelter directly across the street from their children's prissy little private schools and halfway houses near their homes. Rent office space in their buildings on long-term leases then lend-use to methadone clinics, life-after-prison and social-welfare organizations thus causing the halls of their buildings to be filled with the results of their evil while driving down property values.
The flip side of this is removal of self from their system. Buy and source local; refuse to support large agribusiness, big-box retail or put money into their pockets. Refuse to work for them. Refuse to live in their developments. Refuse to support their banks, their financial planning, their long-cons (like private for-profit health insurance) or their for-profit "public-interest" ventures. Pay attention to what your dollars and labor are supporting. Refuse, resist, disrupt, segregate yourself from their scheme.
I'd do anything I could to make them suffer. Eventually, they'll suffer enough to relent.