“We believe the economy should be democratically owned and
controlled in order to serve the needs of the many, not to make
profits for the few.”
Economic bigotry
is at the root of most if not all our problems and while the
victims of that bigotry grow in number we are reduced to seeing
only certain of them from certain groups often identified
because they are indeed subjected to even more bigotry than
most. But this amounts to the same old lesser evil politics that
pit the majority against one another while a rich minority rules
over all. The suppression of a potential majority that could
bring about national and help in creating global democracy for
the first time in recorded history results in identity group
minorities gasping for breath by climbing up and over other
groups to achieve their goals commonly mis-identified as dreams,
while actually enabling and accomplishing the goals and even
dreams of all ruling classes: division of the
peasants-workers-citizens potential majority into easily
controlled minorities at war among themselves while remaining
relatively oblivious to their rulers.
Can supporters of the NRA and personal firearms ownership find
unity with those who oppose weapons production itself? Can
members of Black Lives Matter ever unite with those who believe
that white lives don't? Will men who are sexually
frustrated ever be able to communicate with women who are
sexually set upon? They, and countless other divided humans, can
never hope to unify as long as all of us are ruled by market
forces under the control of minorities working for private
profit before any - if any - consideration for public benefit.
Those forces will always produce some gun owners and weapons
opponents, some allegedly black and allegedly white people, and
legitimately male and female humans who do well enough to be
manipulated into competing to achieve even more comfort at the
market by having more guns or less, more freedom or less, and
more sex or less. But a large and expanding population which is
barely able to get by, joined with a growing population that
can’t get by at all are unable to compete at this alleged free
market where nothing is free and are thus reduced to the totally
un-organized status of people without representation at all,
except by isolated disorganization or default.
While the upper professional classes among the population find
outlets for their problems in gaining college educations and
thus a bit more market place presence even while carrying
enormous debt, those outlets are becoming more expensive and
evasive, leading to greater frustration even among the
relatively privileged – and ever more diverse - minority that is
programmed to see only those slightly more or less privileged as
enemies with little notice if any of those so privileged as to
be members of what amounts to almost another race of beings:
The richest minority in the history of planet earth, with a
relative handful of individuals amassing fortunes of billions of
dollars while billions of humans live precariously, with many in
abject poverty.
To maintain this degree of unfairness based on cosmetic
affluence only available at great debt, programmed divisions
among the population keep a shrinking minority in varying
degrees of comfort but always convinced others are threatening
that comfort from below, rarely looking above to the commanding
heights so far beyond their reality it can seem a heaven
achievable only to the highest priests, ministers, rabbis or
imams, or more realistically their secular owner-employers, the
super rich so far beyond normal humanity in wealth they might as
well be gods superior to past pharaohs, kings, queens or other
shamans.
That deplorable condition of humanity is not only maintained but
strengthened, at least temporarily, by conditioned adherence to
the religious doctrine of market forces under the domain of
private control exercised exclusively and primarily in the
pursuit of private profit. In order to change the situation for
the human race, personally, socially, nationally and most
importantly in our global environment, we will need to act on
and realize what the opening quote from a group of organized
global patriots clearly and succinctly states. If you forgot:
“We believe the economy should be democratically owned and
controlled in order to serve the needs of the many, not to make
profits for the few.”
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