With the growing political and economic crisis plaquing peoplel both here and abroad, we wonder if our elected leaders know let alone, understand what's going on. With the cost of living going up the roof, people wonder if they still have our best interest at heart. What'making people mand is that when they make speeches about things getting better when they are actually getting worse. That's really adding insult to injury to an already burdened masses. Times like these, I'd listen to The Doobie Brothers' song "Taking It To The Streets" full blast for them to understand the situation.
I like the part when he tells him that he is his brother which means that no matter who we are, we are all brothers regardles of who we are. He also lectures his brother, telling him all the things that he'll for him is not working and it's to everyone except his "brother" who is probably too detached from the rest of society to know what's really going on. Unless he does something concrete, well the answer is screw the process and let's take it to the streets, meaning mass action were their true voices are heard. It is the last resort to let the higher-ups know what the real score is before things get nasty.
When I think about this song, I get reminded of the so-called technocrats who led this country to ruin. They thought that they were so smart with their recommendations to boost the economy, instead they made things worse. The legacy of their failures are still felt today and are being perpetuated by their equally greedy successors. As much as I'm not a fan of mass protest, I can understand how people feel because of the bad situation we're in. If they don't want to hear us, then they should remember the lessons of the past where decadent and insensitive rulers were driven out of power because we took to the streets.
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