The political system allows the wealthy an unfair advantage through political influence. Markets should be regulated by consumers and private regulators rather than the government.
"This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it."
-- Joseph Goebbels
Many fascists in Amerika. Always has been, always will be/
The MAGA mob wants to make America great again do they?
Well they are living in cloud cuckoo land.
In a Great Country/ Society there is no poverty as all have access to resources to meet their needs and wants adequately.
Their health, schooling is covered.
All have work to do that's meaningful.
I want to believe they want that too but they voted orange because they thought they would get more pay and lower prices. I voted blue for the same reason.
They voted against a woman of color and they were fed propaganda 24 hrs. a day by an immigrant billionaire. They are plain and simpleβ¦. Stupid, ignorant and gullible!
This was before the depression and I think it's coming to light again. Ten (10%) control 90% of the wealth. The working man controls 10% at best but we're paying those at the top to barrow the money.
Anything is poison if you get too much of it. People poisoned by wealth, with all the money in the world, think that they need all the rest of the money in the world. They think pleasure is the getting, not the giving.
yah...the pendulum always swings to the balance...but these dark times are gonna be with us for at least decade...according to alot of good analyses i have read by smart people, taking a decade was the soonest they thought we could restore the democracy.
Yep...Project 2025 has the intent to completely end democracy and install a totalitarian regime in USA...and that process has already begun...esp in many Red states.
Will Rogers was possibly one of the smartest yet least educated persons in our recent history. His quotes are timeless. For instance, "There are men running government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches" or "I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts".
Whispers: βIβm related to Will Rogers on my motherβs side.β I canβt be proud of it, because itβs not like itβs something I achieved, but it does make me happy because I admire the man.
I was just reading a 2020 TIME article about how much income workers didnβt receive because of income inequality. $50TRILLION!!
βUnlike the growth patterns in the 1950s & 60sβ¦the majority of full-time workers did not share in the economic growth of the last forty years.β https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
I've been saying there's like 10 billionaires in his admin. I was nearly 40% off and not in the good direction. Jesus christ how does ANYONE think these pricks give a flying fuck about working people?
Welcome to an Oligarchy! Gradually Dump will chip away at our civil rights until weβre living in a country not far from the dystopian society we call Russia.
It is time to reveal this to the world so that it is not just the privy knowledge of a chosen few. The fact is that our world has been βownedβ by the elite, who created the society we live in β purposely, to benefit themselves at the expense of Humanity.
Itβs very easy: if you accept that all resources (money, land, food, etc.) are finite and not infinite, you realize the only way for very few to have a lot, is for a lot to have very little π€·ββοΈ
Few realize that if not for Napoleon, we could very well be living in a world run by the Catholic Church today. We are learning much about important things kept from us in history (White-washed & untaught history).
Iβm Italian, so napoleon and his βwarβ on the church was a big part of our curriculum. But I agree w/ what youβre saying - a lot of people donβt even know about this :/
Very good read, though it wasnβt easy π Itβs a really good piece and I like that it gives an idea or theory as to why royalty intertwined w/ religion as a tool for control and submission. How are we still there? Itβs so sad to realize that we are essentially as ignorant as thousands of years ago π’
How are we still there? The quick answer is that they diversified. Since WWII, the elites of royal families gave up or hid their titles. They used their wealth, power & knowledge of manipulation to win in democracies; and, they supported each other & continued to USE the ignorance of the masses.
I always say that, the titles changed from count and marquis to CEO and CFO. But in essence the system remains unchanged. We would get very much along irl π
Those operating under sickly anti-democracy bad economics in the conservative style: 1) That's how it should be. 2) They would be starving even harder if not for the ten rich people. 3) It's unethical to think about equity, justness, fairness, welfare. 4) One can say nothing about welfare. #EconSky
It's pure nonsense. Maybe it has to go through America. I don't have the solution, nor does Trump which is planning all the contrary (starving the people for better control), but we need more active thinking.
So unfair and after all they too will die and take nothing with them why couldnβt the billionaires make enough and help people , their employees with decent salaries and bonus. Prices affordable like the supermarket in mass call market basket.
Has anyone ever thought that this anti vaccine, raw milk might just be a way to cut back and scare the masses from rebelling against the rich. You know know they will get their vaccine and they will never drink raw milk anything crazyEAT THE RICH
So, I get to spend my golden years being hungry and homeless, and then being arrested for it and shipped off to some detention camp while Trump and other billionaires dine at Mar-a-Lago with white supremacists.
during the following century taxes on the rich went way up and the economy boomed and those taxes went way down and the economy survived and the rich got astronomically richer without trickle down benefits. we had busts, but the economy & the rich survived but disparities kept spreading.
Truer words were never spoken, only nowadays if ONLY 10 million people couldn't afford to eat, we might consider the situation to be very promising. Alas, today it's more like 100 million hungry people working multiple jobs, with shit for healthcare, and super-rich clowns at the wheel!
If you canβt find the words, there is no hope for the rest of usβ¦. You are the language guru of our time. Evil sounds like a normal descriptor these days. Need a new language.
Collective delusion, they believe one day they too might become rich and powerful, and should that happen, they wouldn't want any restrictions on what they might do if they were rich. Why big lotteries are popular like Powerball and Mega Millions. They truly believe they can be part of the "they".
He's talking about people like the Kochs, not the voters. The people who already have everything but will destroy the world around them for a little bit more of the money they don't even need
One of the Kochs ran for President in 1980 for the Libertarian party....there doesn't seem to be a hell of a lot different from his insane platform to what we're seeing today, which is absolutely terrifying
Yeah, I was there, it's when I started pronouncing it as "kroks". The Koch brother will someday be revealed as cause of the tragedy that became Venezuela because it could refine heavy crude, even tar crude better than anyone else and the Kochs wanted it all for themselves. A manifest destiny in XL.
Really or are they only part of the problem? The Kochs that is. It would appear to me it was "voters" that got us here, and with all the doom and gloom about that fact, I'm not so sure voters can get us out of it and back to the road we were on. Do you? Time will tell, no?
Alexis de Tocqueville had some interesting comments about the tyranny of the majority, but I don't imagine he ever thought about the tyranny of the minority in the new republic then, that we have today. A tyranny that existence because a slim minority didn't vote. πΈπ€π¬
He seems to have been spot on, especially when you consider how large real estate holdings were made possible in the near wilderness Adams lived in when he the future in possibilities.
It is a collective delusion, because they all think of it individually but exclusively for the benefit of themselves and maybe their families, friends, regardless of the consequences to strangers they don't know who have the same delusion about the possibilities of being rich.
Nobody in America actually struggles to eat aside from those with truly disordered lives. Food is cheap and plentiful here more so than any other place on earth.
Trying to imagine him in THIS government. Someone who actually cares about society rather than getting re-elected and continuing to suck of the government teat. Will Rogers was the prototypical man of the people
So true!
God not sleeping.
My Pinned post explains how my extended life signals D-Day of Nature in 2103.
We're defective humans fit for recall.
Nature to start on a clean slate:
Highest evolution of man who respects:
God is most
Where man is least
No church no priest.
Even temples/mosques go
We are not the American exceptionalism that is taught & inferred. In fact, I've come to the conclusion that has helped lead to our current issues. I lived overseas in the early 80s & that was the first change in attitude I had.
No one paid attention after the battles portion. They skipped over the Kennedys Chryslers and their ilk. The isolationists that tanked the global economy with the govts help then feasted on the backs of the poor. Rinse repeat.
My husband & I just talked about this yesterday. Weβre 69 & 76 and we both believe history, social studies & civics have been badly taught and/or not taught nearly enough.
History classes could & SHOULD be profound & moving revelations β¦ not just tedious yawners.
Like 1928, there will be economic collapse. The empathetic Socialists will clean it all up, again..
Then the cycle starts again.
As long as capitalism is left alive this cycle will never be broken.
When BRICS is up, US mega financial assholes will eat each other alive, after trying to eat us.
Theyβre coming for more from us, which if they succeed will be the largest transfer of wealth the world has ever seen.
Social Security is the last trough of cash left in the US other than individual personal wealth.
They are coming for your personal wealth also. They will tank your investments. Buy everything for pennies on the dollar. I have 3 neighborhoods all rental homes near me encompassing about 125 acres over 1000 homes. Folks will never be able to buy a home or build family wealth.
Some day, we will have to reckon with the way humans pay each other for services . An example - Sports folks should be paid well, but one dude getting $1/2 billion/yr is approaching silly. Pay the dude enough to live well, and LOWER TICKET PRICES! There are many e.g. of this in th US system.
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"This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it."
-- Joseph Goebbels
Many fascists in Amerika. Always has been, always will be/
Well they are living in cloud cuckoo land.
In a Great Country/ Society there is no poverty as all have access to resources to meet their needs and wants adequately.
Their health, schooling is covered.
All have work to do that's meaningful.
(the only economy of size not having to rebuild after ww2, instead getting to sell to those rebuilding)
But all jokes aside, these past few years and the years to come have and will seem unreal with how dark they are.
#TheGreatDictator
(I hope I got that right. First year undergrad was a long time ago, and thatβs the last time I studied French!)
me was him making fun of a journalist with a disability. This should have been enough for all of those so called Christians.
βUnlike the growth patterns in the 1950s & 60sβ¦the majority of full-time workers did not share in the economic growth of the last forty years.β
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
https://www.academia.edu/32492893/Understanding_The_Oligarchy_pdf
Napoleon Bonaparte VS Holy Roman Empire
https://www.academia.edu/10994708/Napoleon_Bonaparte_and_The_Holy_Roman_Empire
And 8.2 billion people.
https://bsky.app/profile/therealjackhopkins.bsky.social/post/3ld7s3n3rxc2a
The American Dream is unchanging
Rich get richer.
Poor get poorer.
Cycle continues because of evil and greed.
EAT THE RICH
- Me
What were the rest taught.
True psychopaths.
God not sleeping.
My Pinned post explains how my extended life signals D-Day of Nature in 2103.
We're defective humans fit for recall.
Nature to start on a clean slate:
Highest evolution of man who respects:
God is most
Where man is least
No church no priest.
Even temples/mosques go
πππππππππ
The American Gilded Age (part 2) 2025
History classes could & SHOULD be profound & moving revelations β¦ not just tedious yawners.
Then the cycle starts again.
As long as capitalism is left alive this cycle will never be broken.
When BRICS is up, US mega financial assholes will eat each other alive, after trying to eat us.
2030?
Until you change the system ....
Social Security is the last trough of cash left in the US other than individual personal wealth.
But it time to empower the people for real.
Try this work from @jenuinehealing.bsky.social
https://jenuinehealing.com/blog/video/healing-humanitys-soul/