Tom Morello does not have to do this. He could, as a seminal member of acts such as Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, sit back and count fat stacks of cash. Instead, he uses his guitar and voice to advocate for social change, to advocate for the poor.
Do you really think President Dump gives a shit about the poor, the homeless man who camps out in front of his palatial Trump Towers?
I think not.
Yet the current occupant of the White House stands not alone but as a symbol of the plutocrats who run our country. They feed off greed and suck the very marrow from the bones of the working class. People deeply understand this and perhaps this very resentment and and led a small fraction of voters in key states to give the Electoral College: an undemocratic institution if ever there were one.
Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million; three million more souls voted for the female candidate than the male bully and braggart, the malignant narcisist
Those in the land with streets “paved with gold” who exploit workers to create their pseudo-paradise, and then choose not to share their wealth with the poor and needy, must realize God befriends the vulnerable. Ironically, this positive image from Revelation (“the street of the city is pure gold” [Rev 21.21]), a book concerned with socio-economic injustices (see e.g., 6.6), serves to identify those responsible for those very abuses.
6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d] and do not damage the oil and the wine!” Revelations 6:6
21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass. Revelations 21:21
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