Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Thom Hartmann Program" channel.

@jamesduda6017 Capitalism has created greatest wealth ever seen for a smaller and smaller ruling elite group of owners. It has also created a huge working class that owns absolutely nothing. We are debt slaves to the credit card, the student loan, the car payment, and the mortgage. One might ask how could such a thing happen? The answer lies in the profit quest. The workers are bombarded with you need this and you need that and a higher wage is unnecessary because what you really need is good credit that we will give you should you not strike or anyway violate our rules or terms of agreement.
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@juniorgod321 Opening a small business or a small (food) coop can not change the natural way in which capitalism works. Capitalism naturally leads to monopoly and the rate of return on investment drops as machinery replaces labor that drives investment into paper values. The 2008 crisis is not an accident or due to bad policy.
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I total disagree. A few (eleven) 'white nationalist' posters are not a danger. No more than the publishing of Mein Kampf or any other political tract. What is dangerous is allowing huge private companies the power to control what can be published on the internet. The value of Youtube, Facebook is the ability of anyone to have their say. They are not newspapers with an owner that controls the publication. In fact the big media has many of its publications on YouTube and Facebook. The real target is not Trump or Obama its the rights of small publishers and the control of ideas by government and big business. It's the fascist who burned books and shut down bookstores. These gentlemen are playing into their hands.
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@brianlacy8870 Not so the working class is less racists than at anytime in past history. Instead of healthcare for all. We got a Romneycare (It made bigger profits for insurance companies in Massachusetts) Renamed Obamacare. Instead of better and cheaper cars We got a "sand in the carburetor" program. Insead of road repair we got the "Orange Barrel". Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize while continuing the endless war policy. Instead of affordable education we got the Obama Speech "To open a book sometime." Now you tell us Trump should never have been elected. Why? Because you wanted not a President but instead a Dynasty headed by Queen Hillary the first. Trump was the only visible candidate without the Good Housekeeping Ruling Class Seal of Approval.
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They are different names meant to make the capitalist system sound better. It like a free market. Nothing is free in a market and in a store or Market like Wall Mart cameras watch over shoppers in the store except in the bathrooms. In the bathrooms signs remind shoppoers about the penalties for theft.
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What lies? Oh that's right Red baiters like McCarthy were "truth tellers". J. Edgar Hoover's Gestapo sending out finks and spies into every area of life looking for commies.
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You screenname says all anyone needs to know about you.
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People have come to hate city intellectuals and scholars. They've always got a solution that involves saving capitalism.
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@juniorgod321 As I said the 2008 Crisis is not an accident or due to bad policy. It stems from greatly driving up paper values way over actual value. Within the nation state the capitalist settle their difference between each other with contract law. Colt Industries in Hartford, CT doesn't send an army up to take out Smith and Wesson in Springfield, MA.
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@juniorgod321 Outside of the nation state they use alliances, trade pacs, treaties and the UN. However competition between them and the ability to produce more than just for the home market, the ability to overproduce, leads them into trade war and then real war. The world is not an infinite market with an infinite supply of cheap labor.
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X @أفلاكالأفكار No it was due to capitalist greed. The Capitalist control the two party politicians not the other way around. This is why many of them are.against Trump even more so the workers who voted for him. No capitalist party politician is suppose to pay any attention to us. They do what wall street wants with some leeway.
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X @أفلاكالأفكار Workers have nothing in common with the Bosses. The workers should never sacrifice to keep the bosses in business. The unions should demand universal healthcare as a way to prevent the bosses healthcare promises from going south with the next round of bankruptcy.
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@buffaloman9671 You can still read Trotsky since he is kept in print by the communist movement at Pathfinder Press.
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Before a fascist state can be consolidated from Bourgeois Democracy they first must defeat the trade union movement.
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