Congratulations three-way. (Or good news for once.)

Long, long ago, my mother told an already world-weary 19-year-old, "You watch, the revolution is coming." And I told her, "The revolution isn't coming because nobody wants to change the current system. The middle class eats well, so they have no reason to fight for poor people." I had no idea at the time that the conservatives were going to launch a campaign against the middle class and convince them to become poor people. I also had no idea that the GOP, through Fox and other toxic thought forums, would convince all those newly converted poor people to further fuck themselves by voting in consistently more vile politicians with every elective cycle.

Over the previous year, I kept bitching about this and asking, "What's your limit, people? When do you snap and stop letting them do this?"

Well here's the answer, in big bold print. (Bolding is mine.) Mississippi said NO to personhood for zygotes over personhood for people. Way to go, guys. Really, fantastic job, and I can't be more proud. Two, Democrats in Ohio won a key election, meaning the gay marriage law cannot be revisited and repealed by the GOP. So hate doesn't win in Ohio either. Hahahaha.

And people, let's talk about Occupy in all its multifaceted and growing glory. No broad brush attack can cover all the people in this movement to dismiss them. You can't call it anti-military when two of the victims of police brutality were Iraq and Afghanistan war vets. The soldiers are in on this. The teachers are in on this. We even got some lawyers…though they swear they're the good kind, so we're taking them at their word for now. But anyway, there's old folks with walkers out on the streets, protesting with all the conviction and anger of the college kids. I want to quote an old song, just so I can show it's no longer valid.

Young people speaking their minds, and gettin' so much resistance from behind

It's not happening this time. The occupy kids have parents who see how bad things are, and they're with their kids on what the best medicine is: we all need less corporate corruption. The grandparents are in on this plan because it makes so much sense. There's Republicans out there marching with Democrats, liberals with conservatives, cats are laying with dogs; mass hysteria, basically. And…it's working. Those pissed off people who failed to mount boycotts against companies like Amazon and AT&T for years have now suddenly got up and moved 60 BILLION dollars out of banks. Fuck yes.

And there really is nothing bad to report aside from the cops in some cities being typical cops at a protest. (Not all of them are like this, and reports of police behavior at OccupyMaine have been extremely encouraging.) Some cops hire instigators and try to make the protests look bad in some cities. It fails because there are other cities where the protests are not being artificially agitated.

The meme "the people are tired of the revolutions" is also not reaching the people. They no longer trust the messages from corporate news on this issue. So now they tune to social media to get their local protest news because they trust us more. We're winning the image wars because the corporate pigs can't stop lying, even when it might be in their best interests to come clean and admit they were lying. Let me rephrase that to something shorter: We're winning. Hell yeah.

So, what happened? You were starving, that's what happened. Mom was right, and I was too. The revolutions were coming, for many countries. But they came because corporations chose to let everyone else starve while they hoarded all the cash in the world. It's the stupidest plan ever, and yet, it's so very, very popular with the 1%. Take all the toys from everyone else and gloat about having everything…and then act shocked when the starving people you're standing on react with outrage. The French aristocrats tried the same plan. Apparently, the 1% isn't big on studying history. Well…can't say I'll regret what's coming to them. =^D

So what happened is, a lot of people learned what it feels like to have their privilege taken from them by someone bigger, and they know what it feels like having the authorities shrug and say, "So what?" The circumstances for how it happened to you were perhaps less violent than what I experienced, but they've been no less damaging to your mental health, to your physical well being, and to your "pursuit of happiness." So now you have some idea of why I'm always so pissed off, and no shock, you're not able to find a positive outlet for your outrage either.

You gots to RAGE. You're all good and righteously pissed off about having your privileges revoked. And, I totally want to validate your need for anger. Let that out, and let people know you're mad. Protest, and don't be afraid to admit this kind of shit pisses you off. I've been where you are, and I am still there now. This is why I'm so totally empathizing with you occupy people. That's why my twitter feed has been full of Occupy updates no matter where the location is. As new locations spring up, I report on them too.

I do it because this is awesomesauce to me. A non-violent nationwide US protest against corporate greed? Oh, yes please, sign me up to be a proud reporter of that movement. Their victories in each city are truly a victory for everyone in the movement, so long as we all keep reporting the good news when we see it. We have to be the reporters who see the message while corporate reporters continue to shrug and falsely declare, "They don't seem to have any clear message." Oh, yes, they do, and they are beginning to drive that point home in ways that make this shriveled and bitter heart of mine swell with pride.

So, there you go, one post where it's all sunshine and good news, and I have not one cross word to offer, except perhaps to boo the defeated proponents of hate. I know they'll continue to fight for the right to treat others as human scum. But today, they lost, and we win. And yes, this is totally me doing a victory tea bagging dance over the teabaggers. X^D