Reply #90: I am poor folk looking at the very real prospect of living in my truck in 3 weeks when my

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unemployment ends.

And I will take the truth over pie in the sky hopes about social revolution regarding poverty, the environment, health care etc. etc., any day. It's not comforting, it's not "hopeful" and solutions aren't right around corner given the state of our political system. That's reality.

Because I recognize reality does not mean I am settling for it. Do I want those of means to seriously fight for low income housing right now, of course. Am I giving up because they won't, of course not.
I don't need hope to keep on fighting and struggling to survive. But right now we don't have a Martin or a Malcolm and chastising ans shaming another dirt poor person for recognizing that fact isn't going to make one appear.

And I am not mad at you only at what you assume about me.