All We Have Is Our Voice

In recent years we have seen celebrities and people with social currency speak out on issues in the world. Whether it be politics, social issues, environmental issues, As politics and social issues met head on during the last election cycles and the pandemic people grew tired of them, tired of their favorite performers shaming them for their views and beliefs. 

“Shut up, and dribble,” they said. 

Shut up and dance. 

We lionize the famous and the rich but at the same time we deride them for being as caught up – or more caught up – in current events and issues as we are. We have become a society that wants to escape. To forget. We realized how fragile we were during the pandemic, and we hated it. We learned nothing from it. And the last Trump administration taught us nothing, which is why we are where we are. 

We obsess over the famous and rich and desperately want to be them because we think we’d do it better. We wouldn’t say a thing, just smile, wave, and count our cash. 

This is where we are as a people, content to be silenced for fame and fortune. But the thing is that we see someone like Musk and he spoke, but with his money first and when that bought him his seat at the table then he used his voice. 

For most of us, all we have is our voices. 

We can never give them up. 

For anything. 

It may seem a small thing, one voice, but when raised together, we can shake the world. 

If we look at the world and say nothing, then we are damned. 

There is always a side, even if it is ours. 

The people we love, the life we lead, everything is tied together and we now have people in charge of the nation that have no interest in the future, no interest in history, and no interest in anyone that does not look like them. 

We know what they are, but we don’t want to say it out loud because of fear of repercussions. 

They show us who they are and what they care about. 

It’s time to speak. 

It’s time to keep speaking. 

It’s time to stop being silent. 

So many refuse to vote in this election or that because they insist that the politicians don’t speak for them, but they do. Even if you don’t think so. It shouldn’t be a “best of two bads” but this is politics. 

If we stop voting for as close to a greater good as there is we get what we have now, which is a nightmare scenario where the Right has so much power that they are drunk on it and want to rig it so they never lose power. 

How many books and movies have we seen of this and yet never believed it possible?

What is power, whether fame or fortune, but a voice? 

You can use your wealth to influence things, or you can use your connections to people, or you can use your platform. 

People will believe you. 

Someone will. 

Someone will hear you. 

We need more people who stand against what is happening to speak up. 

To stop being afraid of losing what, more wealth?

A job they don’t need?

Ah, power, yeah, that’s what it is, right?

They don’t want to speak up, many don’t, because they don’t want to lose what power they have. 

For those willing to speak up, I applaud you. 

There is more to do than just that but we first must speak. 

Because our voices are all we have. 

All we have to do is refuse to believe in the world we are being given. 

A world where people of color, of different nations, and in communities some don’t think should exist are having their rights and identities stolen. 

We can appreciate art and Art and not like the artist. 

We can like a band and not dig their message. 

We can like someone’s work but not who they are. 

But they have every right to BE who they are and to speak. 

I wish more spoke against what is happening and weren’t happily lining up with the side of evil but it is what it is. 

And it is evil. 

What is happening is evil. 

Make no mistake. 

So speak. 

Let them hear you. 

Let them hear us. 

And let them know we aren’t going anywhere. 

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