With the advent of dictator Donald Trump and his dangerously unstable, violent, egomaniacal personality, the resistance from civic society has not risen to the deadly challenge either quantitatively or qualitatively.
There is a movie with Jeremy Irons and I can’t recall which one. But he discussed how the rich are always the same for a milenia and we are just observing their control change forms over and over and over again.
This is not the first time though. The reason the 50s were considered a golden age for the middle class is because after the great depression we showed them who is the boss and taxed the shit out of them. We need to do it again, and frankly we need to go beyond posting on Facebook, Instagram, tiktok and other crap.
The rich have been screwing with the lower classes since the advent of money. Point me to a time in world history where those with money and power didn’t abuse the rest of us. The problem with hierarchical systems is the worst people always end up rising.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
I claim that the bugs living in your stomach would consider you a compassionate and wise ruler if they could think. You eat food, they convert the food into shit and usable nutrients, and then you dispose of the shit. It’s a win-win relationship for both parties.
Pushed for a change to the tax code - this is just one old man remember - and the government made some noises about it, but ultimately failed to go anywhere on the issue, esp. so since Trumplestiltskin took office.
Unless you rewrite the constitution this will keep happening
There must be a separation of corporate influence from government, billionaires should not be allowed to involve themselves with politics in any way, no funding, no support, you choose to become a billionaire you lose your vote, same for religions
Of course citizens united turned political corruption into a big business and opened a gaping national security hole
It’s all fucked and a new constitution is needed
The military becomes the last line of defence, gun rights have to go
What you are seeing is the end result of a fifty year long class war against the middle and working Americans that the rich have waged, and won.
Warren Buffet was making this known two decades ago and no one listened.
There is a movie with Jeremy Irons and I can’t recall which one. But he discussed how the rich are always the same for a milenia and we are just observing their control change forms over and over and over again.
Longer than that, I’d say. The rich have been screwing with the lower classes since the country was founded.
This is not the first time though. The reason the 50s were considered a golden age for the middle class is because after the great depression we showed them who is the boss and taxed the shit out of them. We need to do it again, and frankly we need to go beyond posting on Facebook, Instagram, tiktok and other crap.
Those sites exist to keep us in disengaged.
The rich have been screwing with the lower classes since the advent of money. Point me to a time in world history where those with money and power didn’t abuse the rest of us. The problem with hierarchical systems is the worst people always end up rising.
You can also say
I claim that the bugs living in your stomach would consider you a compassionate and wise ruler if they could think. You eat food, they convert the food into shit and usable nutrients, and then you dispose of the shit. It’s a win-win relationship for both parties.
They control our thoughts way more than you’re considering.
Ever get “hangry?”
Democracy at work.
Here is the demand: eating a meal. A succulent Chinese meal. This is democracy manifest.
And what has buffet done to address the issue?
Pushed for a change to the tax code - this is just one old man remember - and the government made some noises about it, but ultimately failed to go anywhere on the issue, esp. so since Trumplestiltskin took office.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-introduces-buffett-rule-to-ensure-wealthiest-americans-pay-fair-share-in-taxes/
Thank you for the link. I was genuinely curious and uneducated about it.
Glad to help!
I guess, as a rich capitalist, he helped to escalate the issue.
The business plot never died it just mutated
Unless you rewrite the constitution this will keep happening
There must be a separation of corporate influence from government, billionaires should not be allowed to involve themselves with politics in any way, no funding, no support, you choose to become a billionaire you lose your vote, same for religions
Of course citizens united turned political corruption into a big business and opened a gaping national security hole
It’s all fucked and a new constitution is needed
The military becomes the last line of defence, gun rights have to go