Comments by "Matthew Ingerson" (@matthewingerson) on "Thom Hartmann Program"
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He has explained it in the past, and his reasoning is the same as other good journalists and reporters who have done the same thing.
In order to get on the "list" for campaigns, you generally have to donate to a campaign. Different campaigns have different lists for different levels of support -- for example, wealthy people get one set of emails from a campaign, and working-class people get a different set of emails -- and Thom only donated a small amount, just to get on the list.
Anyway, after you get on a campaign's list, you start getting the solicitation emails. If you're a reporter or journalist, you can report on the craziness contained within the solicitation emails from the worst candidates.
I actually have plenty of critique in regards to Thom, but this isn't some "hill to die on" when it comes to criticizing Thom. What Thom has done, by donating a measly $15 is not only reasonable and logical, but also helpful.
By spending $15 dollars one-time, and by reporting the craziness, the hate, and the lies, all contained in the solicitation emails from worst candidates, Thom makes it so the rest of us don't have to spend the money to learn about the terrible communications from grifting campaigns and grifting candidates to their supporters. All we have to do is watch Thom to learn about it.
Long-story shortened: He donated (once) to start getting campaign emails so he could report on the craziness of the communications and solicitations of the worst candidates.
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Either Bernie has been co-opted as a knave by the wealthy-class, OR he has put a halt on advancing his pro-working-class activities so that he doesn't end up imprisoned by the wealthy-class as they did to LULA, or worse.
I don't want to believe it's the first one, I'd like to believe it's the second one.
I'd like to think Bernie is just acting, or not acting, out of self-preservation.
Bernie was around toward the end of the Red Scare. He also saw what the wealthy-class did to MLK, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton.
Bernie also knows what the wealthy-class did to Abe Lincoln and JFK, and he knows what they wanted to do to FDR.
When you mobilize the working-class majority against the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority, "stuff" happens to you.
But Bernie did say that he didn't want to end up like Ralph Nader.
Nader was slandered and defamed into obscurity by the propaganda produced by the wealthy-class and aired all over the "news" outlets that are owned by the same wealthy-class.
So, maybe Bernie sold-out and has been co-opted by the wealthy-class, like ninety-eight percent of politicians have been. It wouldn't be surprising. It would be likely.
No matter which scenario is the truth, Bernie probably wishes he had a legacy on the level of LULA or any of the previously mentioned people.
One thing seems to be sure, though. America is headed down the road into Fascism. Whether it's on the fast-road with the right-wing Republic-party or the slow-road with the right-wing Democrat-party, it's going to happen.
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class right-wingers
Buckle up.
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Robin, you're mixing up Joe Manchin's daughter (she was CEO of an epi-pen manufacturer) and Martin Shkreli who was called the "pharma bro" by the wealthy-class media companies.
Shkreli went to prison (and is now going through the process of being released), but Joe Manchin's daughter walks free. Shkreli wasn't in the in-crowd of the wealthy-class, but Joe Manchin's daughter IS in with the in-crowd of the wealthy-class.
The wealthy-class used Shkreli as a scapegoat to trick working-class people into thinking that corruption doesn't go unpunished. People are too busy, stupid, indoctrinated, or whatever, to realize that in a fair, law and order society, Joe Manchin's daughter deserves the same as Shkreli.
Joe Biden could choose to pursue Joe Manchin's daughter and corrupt Democrats. Joe Biden could also choose to go after corrupt Republicans.
But he won't, because BOTH political parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class in-crowd. That is the main thing that your memory needs to remember.
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Mercer, Adelson, Langone, Hendricks, Uihlein, Schwarzman, Schwab, McMahon, and there are more.
And, since the Democrat party is also a right-wing party: Bloomberg, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Steyer, Moskovitz, Jurvetson, Sussman, and more.
Singer, Simon, Laufer, Marcus, and others.
Remember: right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
The Republicrats and Demlicans are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class. The leadership of both parties is members of the wealthy-class.
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So very well said, Exodus.
It is incredibly saddening, enraging, amusing, disgusting, stupefying, maddening (choose your own adjectives) to listen to Thom every time he explains in great detail -- citing SCOTUS decisions, Legislation, and Executive Orders, calling out by name the corrupt individuals involved -- this "unraveling" of America.
The corruption that Thom explains was set in motion by the same corrupt, wealthy-class white supremacists who started America in the first place.
Thom has explained this sequence of modern corruption events many times, how America went from a country that he evidently once loved and supported into one that Thom verbally critiques.
Yet, no matter how much Thom critiques the unraveling and calls out the people responsible, he still materially benefits from what America is, was, and has become.
Thom also capitulates and downplays the responsibility of a large group of people responsible for perpetuating the wealthy-class, white supremacist corruption in the present -- namely the Democrat party.
Thom can verbally bash the Republic-party and its wealthy-class leadership, and rightly so. Right-wing politics are the politics of wealthy-class white supremacy. But Thom can't bring himself to criticize the Democrat-party and its wealthy-class leadership.
I find it (insert adjective here) to listen to Thom. He explains the modern-corruption of wealthy-class white supremacy and how it has set its roots in modern-America (starting with the Buckley v. Valeo SCOTUS decision of 1978), but then, day after day, he capitulates to the Democrat-party while bashing the Republic-party.
It seems as though Thom doesn't think that the Democrat-party apparatus has become corrupted and co-opted in the same way that the Republic-party apparatus has.
It's like Thom doesn't see or believe that the same wealthy-class, white supremacist corruption that prompted world empires and European Colonialism is in effect today.
Well, I call bullshite.
I don't believe a person can know all the details that Thom knows, yet not understand how the corruption has infiltrated both major U.S. political parties, both of which govern with right-wing, wealthy-class, white supremacist politics.
Thom knows the who, what, when, where, why, and how regarding corruption. But I'm supposed to believe he doesn't see that it has corrupted both wealthy-class political parties and much of the working-class electorate?
Again, I call bullshite.
I think Thom is a knave on the take. I think Thom knows exactly what the Democrat-party has become, but he tiptoes around it because he benefits from the life he has been afforded by the two-party rule of one group of corrupt, wealthy-class white supremacists.
I don't think Thom is wrong in his historical representation of a large grouping of facts. But I still think, at best, he's a foolish, moderate white liberal who MLK warned us about. And, at worst, he's a knave who helps to perpetuate the systemic injustices that MLK fought against.
Honestly, Exodus, I much prefer your historical representation of a large grouping of facts.
Well done, sir.
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I mean, we kind of have laws against lying. A person can be sued for defamation, slander, and libel. But a person has to be able to afford a lawyer, or afford to be able to be a lawyer in order to have access to those options.
Of course, there are also laws against lying to law enforcement, some government officials and employees. I think there should be much more stringent laws and higher penalties for law enforcement, government officials and employees who lie, though. And cops shouldn't be allowed to lie to "suspects" or "detainees."
Also, candidates on the primary and general election debate stage should have to be sworn under oath by a judge, like a witness in a courtroom, and they should be subject to the same rules of perjury that any citizen would be. If citizens can't lie to government employees, then potential and current government employees shouldn't be allowed to lie to citizens.
Any lie a candidate tells should be able to be brought for adjudication in a court of law, with expert and professional witnesses proving how the candidate has lied, and the candidate proving how they haven't lied. Guilty verdicts should result in no longer being allowed to hold public office or security clearances. They can be "sanitation engineers."
And all court proceedings should be televised because an informed citizenry is a resilient and connected citizenry. And the citizens should know when they're being lied to. They deserve to have it proven to them, and they should be free from worrying about being lied to by the same person in the future.
Something like that.
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+StephenSchleis +Gage Acosta -- Yay!
+Breaking House -- Booooo!
Poverty is a byproduct of the manufactured system which we call capitalism.
Poverty is determined, like any other economic or class ranking, by the implementation of a particular economic system.
Poverty as a byproduct is increased, and exponentially so, as the manufactured system is captured and corrupted by those placed in an elevated position within the manufactured system's hierarchy. Whether a person is placed in an elevated position within the economic hierarchy by birthright or by capitalizing on the capturing and corrupting of the manufactured system matters not. The more people on top of the pyramid, the more people needed at the bottom to support those at the top.
If the manufactured system wasn't able to be corrupted, if there were more stringent penalties for the people who seek to capture it, if waste as a positive variable in regards to profit motive, or if we manufactured a less corruptable economic system... If, if, if... Maybe capitalism wouldn't exist as in its current form.
Maybe if our economic system didn't resemble a pyramid scheme, people wouldn't be so upset with it.
If elites weren't so lazy and ignorant, and at ease with being so, we might not need capitalism. Lazy people who didn't want to provide for their own necessities, and enslaved other people to provide their necessities, is where capitalism derives, and why it continues to thrive.
The working class (bottom 90-ish percent of wage earners) has been given the choice to work 8 - 12 hours a day doing work they mostly hate (I read a study recently that said 80% of people are less than happy with their work) so we can buy our necessities, or be destitute. Have a piece of land and pay taxes on it, or don't live.
The elites don't have to worry about such things. Elites have their necessities provided and catered while the poverty-stricken struggle to provide and cater. Elites make money via corrupt capitalism simply due to allowances made by hierarchical birthright or by capturing corruption. With that corrupt money, elites also get to enjoy a life free of struggle.
Capitalism is as old as the Pharaohs, as old as the Asian dynasties, as old as the medieval monarchs and the peasants, as old as the colonist criminals and the natives, as old as the master manipulators and the sold slaves, as old as the employers and the employees. The divide between the capitalist and the citizen is as old as humans cheating other humans, and the creed has always been the same -- do it OUR way or NO way; the elite's way or no way; the corrupt way or no way.
Billions may have been brought out of poverty, but their poverty was manufactured by a manipulated system designed to exploit their minds, to addict them to buy more, to addict them to obtain more. All the while those who have captured and corrupted the manufactured system are manipulating the other facets of the manufactured system to manipulate the billions of people so that they do not care about anything but themselves as individuals. The manufactured system rewards individuals, lures individuals away from the believing they are part of the billions in poverty and into believing that they can purchase their way out of poverty individually, so long as they individually join in the corruption, join the boys club, join the manipulators.
Capitalism works for elites who don't want to work as hard as those at the bottom. Capitalism works to hide and deny those who have been victims of that manufactured system. Capitalism makes it so that people are unable to work and are thus swept into poverty, and capitalism doesn't care, the elites don't care. The elites only need as many slaves as are needed to provide the necessities and additional items that the elites want.
Capitalize all you want. To me, it only means you have a greater need to be moralized.
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Ah, yes, ol' Bill -- the third right-wing POTUS after Jimmy Carter.
P.S. That's (1)Reagan, (2)Bush Sr., and (3)Clinton, for those who do not yet realize that there is only one major political party in the U.S. -- the wealthy party.
P.P.S. Look at the SCOTUS decisions (listed below) that legalized corruption and bribery while catapulting the advancement of wealthy-class, right-wing extremism.
1. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
2. First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978)
3. Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
4. McCutcheon v. FEC (2014)
These decisions paved the way for the wealthy-class minority to solidify their lordship over the working-class majority.
These decisions allowed the wealthy-class to take control of both political parties by flooding them with money, thereby forming one political party with two different names.
These decisions legalized certain practices within the U.S. that are illegal in other countries with better people. Meanwhile, better people throughout those other countries look on, laughing in amusement/crying in misery.
The wealthy-class further maintains their lordship in many ways.
One way is by producing pro-corporate, pro-wealth, pro-segregationist propaganda to indoctrinate the working-class to manipulate the way the working-class votes, thus molding electoral outcomes.
The corporate media companies, owned by the wealthy-class, gladly distribute this propaganda via pro-corporate news programs.
The wealthy-class and corporations that fund the Repubocrat/Demlican political party are the same wealthy-class and corporations that buy advertisements on television. Those advertising dollars help keep corporate news channels and local stations afloat.
We're not much better off now than in the days of Company Scrip -- which was eventually done away with after the working-class majority stood up to the wealthy-class minority.
So, now there will need to be a working-class reckoning when it comes to Company Courts.
But I won't hold my breath -- most of the working-class majority remain convinced that there are two political parties and that Bill Clinton was on the left.
Aaahhhhhhhhhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaawwwwww-wwwaaaaaaahhh-waaaaaahhhhhhh (from laughing to crying).
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No. You're wrong. There are paradigms in politics. And in other, better countries, those paradigms are examined in international and historical contexts. America is, and always has been, a right-wing country, from its inception through today.
There is a left-to-right scale when it comes to economic policy, and there is a left-to-right scale when it comes to social policy.
Left-wing social politics means more freedoms for all individuals -- think, "All People are created equal."
Right-wing social politics means less equitable freedom for certain groups of individuals -- think, "wealthy-class people are better than working-class people."
Left-wing economic politics mean more protections for small businesses and the working-class, and more regulations and taxes on big corporations and the wealthy-class.
Right-wing economic politics means fewer protections for small businesses and the working-class, and fewer regulations and taxes on big corporations and the wealthy-class.
Thom is a member of the wealthy-class. He doesn't want more regulation and taxation on himself. So even if he is slightly left-wing socially, he's absolutely right-wing economically. And just because Thom is slightly left-wing socially, that doesn't mean that American politicians are.
Both American political parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers. And Thom adamantly stands up for the leadership of the economically right-wing Democrat party while ignoring the corruption they share with the leadership of the economically right-wing Republic party.
Every POTUS in American history has been a pro-wealthy-class right-winger; Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, Reagan -- ALL right-wingers. Even FDR. FDR only governed toward the left so that the working-class wouldn't revolt and start lopping off wealthy-class heads in the streets.
Every current member of House and Senate party-leadership are wealthy-class right-wingers, too; Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, and McCarthy -- ALL wealthy-class millionaires whose campaigns are funded by wealthy-class billionaires. ALL of them are wealthy-class right-wingers.
Ffs, Obama even passed a right-wing healthcare plan that was developed by the right-wing Heritage Foundation for right-winger Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts.
Any voter who has voted for a red or blue POTUS has voted to advance wealthy-class right-wing economic AND social policies.
America doesn't have a social safety net.
It doesn't have universal suffrage.
It doesn't have guaranteed housing or healthcare.
It doesn't have food or water security.
It doesn't have marriage equality.
It doesn't have racial, gender, or religious equity.
And sure, Thom advocates for those social equities. But when Dems and Repubs have controlled all three branches of government, NEITHER party passed laws to solidify those social policies. BOTH parties have kicked the can down the road. Yet, somehow, Thom and you dupes keep checking the Red and Blue boxes on election day.
Again, when it comes to economic policy, Hartmann is a right-winger. He's not the most right-wing, but a right-winger nonetheless. Just because you can't comprehend it, that doesn't mean it isn't so. In the same way that wealthy-class Americans prevented their chattel-slaves from learning in the past, that same wealthy-class has prevented you wage-slaves from learning in the present.
You moronic Americans have allowed yourselves to be governed by TWO economically right-wing political parties. You fall for the theatrics of the wealthy-class right-wingers who are presiding over a political monopoly they've dressed up as a duopoly.
The wealthy-class pumps out the right-wing propaganda on MSNBC, FOX, CNN, and OAN, and you rubes buy the red and blue like you're going to a sportsball game.
While working-class Americans remain duped, the working-class in other, better countries laugh at you because you can't comprehend it. The American Overton-Window is like the windows in the low-rate quarters on a cruise ship.
If you working-class rubes don't wise up and stop voting for imperialist, wealthy-class right-wingers, the other, better countries of the world will get tired of your imperialist crap. Those other, better countries will rise up and do the same thing to America that they did to imperialist Nazi Germany.
And the wealthy-class right-wingers in America will sneak out the back door, leaving you working-class dupes holding the back. Just like the wealthy-class, right-wing Nazis did to the working-class Germans.
Calling Thom a right-winger was forgetful on my part -- I forgot that most working-class Americans don't know the difference between social and economic political spectrums. I overestimated that you would be able to assign the correct spectrum to the context of my writing.
I'm sorry I forgot about your deficiencies and overestimated your intelligence. It won't happen again.
Now, pull your hat up over your eyes so you can see which direction the international contexts of politics are going. And stop running face-first into the future of your demise. Turn sideways so you can look backwrrd to learn from the historical contexts of politics while you slowly proceed forward with caution.
Good luck.
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@pinchebruha405 Even though I understand what you're getting at, no, they shouldn't. See Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1 of The United States Constitution.
Treason is a unique distinction of crime -- having very specific definitions, with very specific actions needing to take place for the crime of treason to have been committed, and very specific punishments -- and it should stay that way.
The wealthy-class have certainly captured and corrupted the government, but they have not declared war on it. They need to maintain the appearance of a government so that they can keep the "monopoly on violence" that the state has. They need to be able to mobilize the government against the working-class people.
Additionally, the Supreme Court is packed full of right-wingers (even some of the "liberal" justices side with the wealthy and corporations). So even if there was a lower court who would hear the testimony of "two or more witnesses" (as required in The Constitution), there are plenty of higher courts, and the SCOTUS, that would reverse and decision by a lower court.
Furthermore, none of the corrupt wealthy people would admit to their corruption in open court (as is required by The Constitution). These people will go to their graves before they give up their cushy standards of living.
Lastly, there are plenty of other descriptions, statutes, laws, crimes, and punishments that have been enacted. Those laws which are already in place should be used and strengthened.
But don't hold your breath.
The best hope for the working-class majority to retake the government from the corruption of the wealthy-class minority is through peaceful and democratic means.
If the working-class majority chooses violence, then the wealthy-class minority will use the government to respond with violence against the working-class.
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I read/saw the report the other day, by someone who went through and analyzed federal-election campaign-funding records for the last 5 or 10 years, something like that, and they found that the split between Repubs and Dems for receiving campaign-funding from the healthcare industry was 55% Repubs and 45% Dems.
Sadly, most of the working-class doesn't know that. Obviously, we won't ever hear a wealthy-class Fascist-disguised-as-a-Republican or a wealthy-class Republican-disguised-as-a-Democrat admit that.
Luckily, though, all of that data is publicly-available (for now).
Thankfully, that data is collected, vetted, interpreted, and redistributed by working-class journalists at independent media outlets that are not beholden to the wealthy-class which owns both of the major American right-wing political parties.
Unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw/read it. I have thousands of links saved, and I even have a pretty good cataloging system, but my dumb-head didn't save that one.
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@72marshflower15 -- In the early 1900s, there were some very organized leftist political parties and labor organizations which were set up by the lower-class majority.
Those organized lower-class leftists groups fought very hard, politically, to push for socially and economically equitable policies. Hence, The New Deal and all of its subsequent programs.
The New Deal had such strong majoritarian support that President Franklin D. Roosevelt got on board with it, even though he was a wealthy-class conservative. FDR, like Lincoln, understood the broad ramifications of an uprising by enslaved and disenfranchised people.
Even though FDR was a member of the wealthy-class minority, his support for the lower-class majority encouraged that lower-class majority to re-elect him three times. After FDR died, the right-wing extremists of the wealthy-class began dismantling the organized leftist parties and the New Deal.
By using their wealth, the wealthy-class implemented propaganda and misinformation campaigns against the lower-class leftist parties and The New Deal programs. Not only that, but they also set about changing the law so that no future President could serve more than two terms in office.
The wealthy-class minority knew that a future President could gain the trust and support of the working-class majority by taking a stand on equity and empathy over manipulation and money. Beyond that, the wealthy-class used their purchased-influence to commence the imprisonment, deportations, disappearances, and murders of countless lower-class leftist human beings.
Since then, we have witnessed the solidification of two economic-extremist and socially-authoritarian political parties, both of which are funded and promoted by the wealthy-class minority to the detriment of the lower-class majority.
Through legalized-bribery of the campaign-finance and election systems, the wealthy-class has seen to the legislative the defunding, deregulating, and destandardizing of education for the lower-class. Thus, the result is a large segment of the population with an inability to think critically about how they have been brainwashed and indoctrinated.
Through the successes of fear, hate, and war-mongering propaganda, the wealthy-class minority has convinced the lower-class majority that they, and their neighbors who are most like them, are the creators of their own problems and that no blame lays with the wealthy-class majority who are at the reins of power.
So, to say that there hasn't been a viable third-party since Lincoln is not entirely true. There were, there have been. In many of the other, better countries throughout the developed world, there are presently a great number of viable and successful leftist political parties who represent lower-class majorities.
However, the greatest threat to those leftist-majority parties throughout the world is the same threat that is faced in America. That threat is the mental illnesses of the narcissistic and psychopathic wealthy-class minority. This mentally-ill minority are addicted to material-acquisition, social-status, easy-living, substance-abuse, resource-hoarding, land-pillaging, labor-profiteering, and the human-exploitation of the lower-class majority.
If history is any indicator of the future (which it is), this mentally-ill minority will do anything to maintain their wealthy-class addictions.
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Sometimes, this channel is hot-garbage playing into the dumpster-fire of right-wing politics...
Thom: 'What happened to the Republican party over the last five decades?'
Guest: "They cooperated with the infiltration of the government by the corrupt wealthy-class. They allowed for the rigging of elections through campaign finance deregulation, which caused the following effects. They failed to utilize anti-trust protections, even though those laws were still valid. Thusly, they enabled the destruction of rural-America, small businesses, and local banks in favor of big-corporate and mega-financial monopolies. Thusly, they facilitated the demise of public information by handing over control of local newspapers, radio, and television stations to multi-national conglomerates. And the Democrats helped!!!'
Thom: 'Do you have hope that the incoming neoliberal/conservative Biden-administration will change that (even though Joe Biden has been in government for five decades, supporting and assisting in the implementation of the aforementioned travesties you explained)?'
Guest: "I do!!!"
GTFOH...
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@Clusterboy It's not corporations that rule. It is the people from the wealthy-class who rule. And, it is not a coincidence that the wealthy-class people who rule, also own corporations. Corporations are the legal-fictions that the wealthy-class has created to shield themselves from transparency and accountability to the working-class people who create the wealth for the wealthy-class.
Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics, and the individuals who are wealthy-class right-wingers want to privatize/profitize ALL government services.
If private companies that are owned by wealthy-class right-wingers can own the fire and police services, for example, then those wealthy-class right-wingers can jack up the prices and scrape profits off of the working-class.
If working-class families can't afford to pay the fire company or the police company, then those working-class families don't get those services. And if enough working-class families can't afford it, then the wealthy-class no longer has to provide those services. Bye bye fire and police.
Now, you might be asking yourself, "why would the wealthy-class want the working-class to be unable to afford fire and police services?"
The answer is simple. Because being unable to afford fire and police services makes people desperate, and the wealthy-class knows that desperate people do desperate and often violent things.
So, if the working-class people are more desperate and violent, then those working-class people can be thrown into prisons and jails. And the 13th Amendment allows criminals to be used as slave-laborers. And, thus, it is not a coincidence that wealthy-class right-wingers ALSO want to privatize/profitize the prisons and jails.
If the wealthy-class right-wingers have their way, then all roads for the working-class will lead to servitude, either as wage-slaves living in squalor or chattel-slaves living in cages.
And if all working-class people can be reduced to powerless slaves, then those working-class people will have no way to affect changes in society. If the working-class people have no way to affect changes in society, and if everyone outside of the wealthy-class can be controlled as slaves, then the wealthy-class right-wingers won't have to provide any services if they don't want to provide them.
I know that may seem like a lot to digest, but when you finally realize that wealthy-class politics are right-wing politics, and that the wealthy-class right-wingers are trying to maintain and further solidify their power and control over the working-class, then everything starts to make more sense.
The wealthy-class right-wingers from BOTH American political parties want to privatize/profitize the income systems for working-class senior citizens so that those wealthy-class right-wingers will be the ones who get to decide which working-class senior citizens are worthy of an income in old age.
If the wealthy-class get to be the owners of the corporations that administer the income systems for working-class senior citizens, then those wealthy-class right-wingers will get to scrape profits off of the income system for senior citizens until those wealthy-class right-wingers decide to shut the corporations down.
The wealthy-class people are addicted to power. They suffer from the same mental-illnesses as any regular addict. And just like an addict, those wealthy-class right-wingers will NEVER willingly give up their addiction to power.
It is not corporations that rule. Corporations are not people.
It is the class of people with wealth who rule, and they do so purposely and purposefully.
I could go on, but that's a good start.
May The Spirit of Love, Peace, and understanding be upon you and yours, Vernon.
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"I feel like people are consuming suffering, unknowingly/annoyingly." (6:36)
Whether she said unknowingly or annoyingly, she's right.
The people who perform jobs in which necessities are not produced, and who do not produce any necessities of their own, are contributing to the perpetuation of profit-systems. Those people are contributing to the perpetuation of the working-class and slave-class of humans who must produce for the wealthy-class. Those people are contributing to the perpetuation of inequality, hierarchy, and slavery, which exploit working-class and slave-class humans for their labor and lives.
The people who DON'T comprehend the suffering of the working-class and slave-class are ignorant. This includes many people within those classes. They should be informed of the injustices which their habits perpetuate so they may have the choice to change their habits.
The people who DO understand the suffering of the working-class and slave-class, but who don't change their habits, are ignorant in a different way. This includes people from all classes. They should be reformed from their habits which perpetuate injustice.
Some people don't understand. They cannot change. They are unknowing.
Some people do understand. They can change, but they lack the will. They are annoying.
As someone who has done many different kinds of jobs, I would offer the following advice. If you want to change your life, where ever you are able, commit yourself to jobs in which necessities are produced. Commit to doing jobs in which food (think farms and markets, not restaurants and bars), clothes (think sheep, spinning wheels, seamstresses, and tailers, not retail stores and sweatshops), shelter (think housing, not hotels and resorts), education (think common/public institutions, not charter/private institutions), and health/child/eldercare (think non-profits) are the goals.
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I'm sure we'd have a great conversation in person, John. Maybe, someday, when I join a foot-caravan headed for the safety and sanctuary of the Canadian-boarder, we'll get to meet. LOL
Thanks for your responses. :)
Edit* Long P.S. to follow:
I'm a Christian, btw. I don't go to a church building, but I go to church daily by myself in my own home.
So, yes, I agree with you -- following a preacher who preaches for money and social-status is a huge part of the problem.
But if a person can't read The Bible on their own, it's likely because the education system failed them.
And if the education system failed them when it comes to reading, (I believe) it's because of the same reason that church-businesses have failed them when it comes to understanding Christ.
I believe that reason is the inevitably-corrupting power of money, and the wealthy-class business owners have plenty of both money and corruption.
If people are illiterate and uneducated, they are going to have a difficult time comprehending that they're being misled, whether religiously or economically.
Anyway, I presume I'm farther left politically than most people, because of how I have come to interpret Jesus on my own.
Socialism and communism aren't economic-systems that I fear, but capitalism is. And my fear of capitalism goes right along with my fear of theocratic and technocratic authoritarian social-systems.
Just thought I'd throw it out there, that not all Christians are fear, hate, and warmongers. Not that you implied that they are. But I did. LOL.
Thanks again. :)
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Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics and wealthy-class right-wingers were the politicians in The Confederacy. And, just like the wealthy-class right-wingers who ruled during The Confederacy, the wealthy-class right-wingers who rule today will never willingly give up their addictions, power, and laziness.
It's not surprising that it's been 150+ years and the wealthy-class, right-wing Confederates are still fighting the socioeconomic war for power -- addiction is a perseverent condition.
But, perhaps, the most surprising thing is this: the well-fed descendants of slaves are actively helping the wealthy-class, right-wing Confederates to win the war in the present.
I mean, it is certainly useful to understand the dichotomy between house-slaves and field-slaves -- the house-slaves were used as a tool by the wealthy-class to sow division between the field-slaves and house-slaves.
The wealthy-class owners would give the house-slaves a few extra crumbs, and in exchange, the house-slaves would report the actions of the field-slaves to the wealthy-class owners. And that dynamic is still very much used by the wealthy-class to divide the working-class today.
But there are some house-slaves who have openly joined The Confederacy. And they've done it for a few extra crumbs from the tables of the wealthy-class, right-wing masters.
Candace Ownes, Hershel Walker, Sen. Tim Scott, (uncle)Thomas Sowell, Jessie Lee Peterson, (in)Justice (uncle)Thomas, Kanye, Zirconia and Polyester (that's Diamond and Silk for those who don't get the reference). There are countless others.
And those working-class token-blacks who are helping the wealthy-class, right-wingers to maintain power are no better than the working-class white-dupes who are helping the wealthy-class, right-wingers to maintain their power. Regardless of their race, they are all class-traitors to the working-class.
Wealthy-class right-wingers will never willingly give up their power or addictions, and working-class dupes will continue to idolize and strive to be like the wealthy-class right-wing addicts.
Addiction, power, and laziness are hard drugs.
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