I'm 74 years old and have been politically active since the 1980's. I have never, ever seen my beloved country in such dire straits before, with people eagerly willing to throw democracy under the bus if it means a fatter bank account for them. It's sickening, disgusting, and downright evil. I don't know how the election will turn out, but I do know that Trump and his supporters will do anything and everything, legal or not, to gain power. I'm seriously beginning to wonder if the nation can withstand the onslaught of these right-wing traitors. It seems as though everywhere I look, all I see are Trump-loving jackals who are totally ready to give the nation to Putin just as long as they get what they want. When did America spawn such vile, loathsome creatures? More importantly, how will we manage to defeat them? What can we do, other than vote Blue? The courts are aligned against us (and Biden steadfastly refuses to expand the Supreme Court, which would save us), Garland Merrick has sat back and let the insurrectionist leaders get away with their crimes, the mainstream media is in love with Trump, and the MAGAts are ready and willing to go to war, literally, for their orange messiah. Is democracy coming to an end in the U.S.? Are we done as a nation? If Trump wins, it's all over--and I have a sinking feeling that he will cheat just enough to regain power. I hope I'm wrong, but it feels as though the end is nigh. I don't want to live in a country that is ruled by authoritarians and autocrats. I am seriously considering leaving the country and moving to Canada if Trump should ooze his way to victory. I weep for my country and for democracy, and I fear for both.
I feel the same way I feel that if they are able to install Trump as dictator lots of good people will leave this country and I fear what this country will be for my daughter and two sons in the future it's really sickening!!
The answer is the rich have bought and paid for the laws that keep everyone in their place. They own, and manipulate, the airwaves and cyberspace that spew their views. How people vote against their self interests is beyond me.
Using campaigns of hate while dividing us works. EVERY TIME.
Greedy bastards value tax cuts over everything! And they think that if Trump installs himself as Dicktator that he won't pull a Putin on them? They don't think he'll demand a cut of everything they do if not a 75% stake in their operations? Everyone one of these assholes better start thinking about what their life will really be like under the Dear Leader...or what their life will be like if the people of this country wake the fuck up and realize that their enemies are not gay or immigrants or trans or brown or women. Their enemies are the American plutocrats who have been robbing this country blind since the days of the last senile president, Ronnie Raygun.
You are so right. I have been saying this too. The second he gets in he will send his own personal military after all of them and take it all. I don't even think he would leave them a percentage at all. He woukd just steam roll them over. They deserve it. But we do not and that is why we must do everything possible to prevent this. We have nothing to lose except everything.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. We are the sans sabots of the modern era. We can defeat the aristocracy at the ballot box or, if they steal the election, need to consider Jacobin solutions.
They want cheap labor, serfs are preferable. They believe they are entitled to their wealth, and f everyone else. Shame on the spineless ex-gop, who gave away democracy for the illusion of power. Many of them will end up in prison when trump decides he wants their companies, too.
One should be more worried about those who are propping tfg up. Tfg is cognitively going downhill fast & soon he may be rendered unable to function due to his dementia. Who’s to stop them from using the 25th Amendment to remove tfg & replace him once he is no further use to them?
I'm sad for America and the rest of the world. Being British, if he ever sets foot in the WH again we will suffer too. How can these sycophantic followers of his be this stupid to try to damage their own country and be so ignorant, I was going to say selfish, but those, the people, have nothing to gain and everything to lose, healthcare being one of them, seems they just don't care. It defies all belief.
For many MAGAs their goal is easily understood due to their Christian Nationalist mindset--As long as they are perceived better than any one who they despise or hate, then take all of their money and dignity for the sense of false pride. President Johnson stated:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”― Lyndon B. Johnson
Trump just gets scarier every day. I'm appalled at the number of people just like Trump who put money above everything else. Clearly I'm naive, because I thought that as a country we were better than that. That said, with the books I've been reading lately, which teach me a true history of our country, I'm not terribly surprised that the ultra-rich are behind Trump.
The deep dive into the truth and not believing as fact the history as we were taught. I’ve been doing the deep dive into many areas and finding almost everything I was ever taught is biased, twisted, myths and often, downright lies. This goes for history, religions, philosophy and even some science and mathematics. As a metaphor, we send telescope into space, look as far as we can see and see the origins of the universe was created by a big bang. Creationist love this as evidence of God.
We send up a larger more powerful telescope that can see much further and find what we believed was not true, big bang may not have haven’t. Creationist don’t like this.
As you see, diving deeper into the history of our county, we are not and never have been the shining light on the hill. Our great founding fathers recruited the poor to fight the evil king so that they could protect their wealth built on slavery and conquest of land. Also, they were able to maintain their dominion over women and not give them any rights like voting.
It goes on and on until one concludes the same thing Socrates finally concluded “I KNOW nothing.”
Amen to that! I wish more people understood our true history. We must be reading some of the same books, though I don't have the energy any more to go beyond our country's history. With the way our country is going, it makes me glad that I am an old woman. I don't know how much longer I have here on earth, but I will spend my time learning, and clinging to the good things I have in my life.
The biased white man's fantasy US History taught in schools is a waste of time. All I learned was convenient lies to make the European Invaders' progeny feel good. At home it was a different story.
You said that the US has never been the shining beacon on the hill BUT to those people coming from war-torn countries or countries in the midst of famine, we were that beacon. We have been built on the backs of those who immigrated for something better than what they possibly risked life and limb just to get here.
Many years ago I read that the US is a country ruled by Gemini, the twins. As time goes on, I’m believing that there may be something to it.
Some of the ones that are really great are 1) The 1619 Project; 2) Caste; 3) The Warmth of Other Suns (#2&3 are by Isabel Wilkerson); 4) Begin Again (Eddie Glaude); 5) Tears We Cannot Stop (Michael Eric Dyson); What Truth Sounds Like (also by MED). I've read all these. I also have two more that are in line to be read: 400 Souls (Malcolm X Kendi, ed); and Madness by Antonia Hylton. I've also been reading everything I can get my hands on by N. Scott Momaday, who successfully lived in both Native American society and western society. He is a wonderful voice for the Native Americans' experience. All the books I've read are very well written, but the subject matter is difficult to read. It is well worth taking the time for them.
Thank you, Veronica. I'm sure I will find it both interesting and heartbreaking. One of the reasons I recommend reading Scott Momaday's books is because he captures all of that. He was Kiowa (he just died this January), and he was the first Native American I ever met - he taught the most memorable class I took as an undergraduate back in the mid-60s, and although I have always appreciated him, my appreciation is much greater all these years later. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn is a good place to start.
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might write, "First, we kill all the billionaires."
But instead of killing them, we must elect people who will see to it that billionaires do not have excessive power over our gov't, pay increasing amounts of their income in taxes, and are forced to abide by all the laws enacted that preserve our democracy. We need to end all suppression of the votes, enact more severe penalties for fraud of all kinds, and increase investigations of all white collar crime, among other preventive measures. We have to get money out of politics by limiting all contributions, making campaigns much shorter, and limiting dollars spent on media buys. We must also rid gov't of unethical judges and make the extreme court judges toe the ethical lines their lower court colleagues must toe. In other words, political money has to be scrutinized like never before.
Check out @bidenharrishq on Threads they posted a list with pictures. Most of them aren’t in businesses you & I can boycott, but we can name & shame them by sharing the post to ALL your social media
You know what’s scary? A troll like you supporting a CONVICTED rapist. And the judge clarified that calling ir sexual assault doesn’t make it anything but rape. So you want convicted criminals—proven guilty in the White House. Takes one to know one as they say. You give yourself away.
This is why Project 2025 scares me. Heritage Foundation and its backers are actively working to ensure their agenda will succeed no matter who is in office. They're doing it in plain sight.
I know. I don't understand why it isn't being discussed every night on MSNBC. Maybe it's like when we got laughed at for calling Trump a fascist seven years ago. Maybe Project 2025 sounds too much like a tin-foil hat conspiracy theory, but Heritage is putting out press releases about it, for God's sake.
That’s exactly it. It sounds so insane that when you explain it, people laugh in your face. We live in the upside down. This same strategy is how they overturned roe. We were all yelling and screaming that they would do it. The public said we were being hysterical. Well… fuck me cuz they did it. And they aren’t gonna stop.
I hear you loud and clear. It is 00:16 at my location and I am WIDE AWAKE. I have never been an insomniac until now and all this....plus the rest of the global craziness
I highly recommend a Substack by Andra Watkins called “How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life”
She was raised in the extreme Evangelical Christian Nationalist community & is reading that doc & explaining what they mean to do with it that will affect our daily lives
Consider subscribing to Andra Watkin’s Substack “How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life” She was raised in the extreme Evangelical Christian Nationalist community & she is reading Project 2025 & then interpreting it for us from that community’s POV- what they mean to do if Trump or really ANY Republican gets in the WH.
I wish there were a list of those that attended so we could see who these anti-democratic scoundrels are. Why should they be allowed to hide in the shadows?!
Maybe a comic book rendition of the book “Hell‘s Cartels,” mentioned in this essay, would be useful to educate the 60% of Trump voters with a high school education or less?
It has been the lay of the land ever since humanity developed ownership of lands for agriculture and maintaining animals for sustenance. Not coincidentally, that is also when humanity was afflicted with disease and constant warfare countenanced by mythical religions.
Sure, greed may be something of a natural human inclination; so is selfishness in general, so is reacting violently and destructively whenever angry or frustrated. But, I'm sure you'd agree, it's crazy for any such tendency to be celebrated, let alone seriously regarded as (morally) "good."
Morally good? Not sure what frame of reference you are using to refer to morals. If you mean morals that come from a religion, then I must see you as the philosopher Wittgenstein saw the lion. That is we cannot communicate as I see religions as amoral and used by the greedy to control the masses.
In you are thinking “morally” as derived from the ethics proposed by different philosophers like Kant, then I’m again not able to communicate with you. To be honest, I’m not sure what morality is and again retreat to my Socratic space that “I know nothing.”
Ok. I admit I speculating, and thinking a bit crudely, and without regard to anything like metaphysical certainty (as politics and social criticism always does) I'm thinking merely of what can intuitively be understood to benefit society and humankind in general. I personally have no use for religion's nonsense either; but I do value civility and the idea of "the humane," and what promotes it.
That is my religion Kindness, or just the very basic “do unto others” rule
I was raised in the Christian faith but as I grew & learned, I drifted away from it. I would still rarely go to church with my sister just to humor her, but now…? No, not gonna pretend, I just don’t believe that nonsense
We have made the billionaires too wealthy. We need to go back to the taxes of the 60s and tax them at 60-70%. If we don’t they will destroy democracy. There really is no choice here. The cap MUST be raised on social security so billionaires pay the same percentages as the rest of us. We need Biden to win the Presidency again and then have a really strong Democratic President after him. We need to strengthen our courts with Democrats and Biden needs to expand the Supreme Court because the GOP extremists on the court have gone rogue.
Excellent article and historical overview on what has taken place in the past, and what is currently taking place in our country. If we fail to study and learn from history, it is bound to repeat itself!
Wouldn’t it make sense to know bit inky who these wealthy traitors are, but to know what industries they make their money in, what niche they sell a product in, a brand name to NEVER (and tell your friends) Ever to buy again?
It’s not enough for a few of us to boycott their products etc. We know who they are: The Koch’s, Leonard Leo, Leaders of the Federalist Society. Look up who Justice Thomas is vacationing with. Many times the richest folks lie about their products, I’m looking at you Purdue Pharma to make money. They don’t care who they hurt they only care about $$$. The wealthy fight against regulations daily so they can spend less money and they make our food, our water, and our air less safe. The GOP supports all of these rich monsters.
John Paulson stood early alongside Donald Trump as Trump decried the state of an empty factory in Youngstown blaming, of course, progressive policies and knowing that Paulson’s hedge fund was responsible for closing the factory and offshoring a huge segment of the US auto parts manufacturing business even after accepting billions in TARP funds to keep its US factories open.
I'm 74 years old and have been politically active since the 1980's. I have never, ever seen my beloved country in such dire straits before, with people eagerly willing to throw democracy under the bus if it means a fatter bank account for them. It's sickening, disgusting, and downright evil. I don't know how the election will turn out, but I do know that Trump and his supporters will do anything and everything, legal or not, to gain power. I'm seriously beginning to wonder if the nation can withstand the onslaught of these right-wing traitors. It seems as though everywhere I look, all I see are Trump-loving jackals who are totally ready to give the nation to Putin just as long as they get what they want. When did America spawn such vile, loathsome creatures? More importantly, how will we manage to defeat them? What can we do, other than vote Blue? The courts are aligned against us (and Biden steadfastly refuses to expand the Supreme Court, which would save us), Garland Merrick has sat back and let the insurrectionist leaders get away with their crimes, the mainstream media is in love with Trump, and the MAGAts are ready and willing to go to war, literally, for their orange messiah. Is democracy coming to an end in the U.S.? Are we done as a nation? If Trump wins, it's all over--and I have a sinking feeling that he will cheat just enough to regain power. I hope I'm wrong, but it feels as though the end is nigh. I don't want to live in a country that is ruled by authoritarians and autocrats. I am seriously considering leaving the country and moving to Canada if Trump should ooze his way to victory. I weep for my country and for democracy, and I fear for both.
I feel the same way I feel that if they are able to install Trump as dictator lots of good people will leave this country and I fear what this country will be for my daughter and two sons in the future it's really sickening!!
I feel your pain. My granddaughter's are just getting ready to be adults in this f...d up world. My heart breaks.
Yep. Viewing the depths of Hell with 20/20 vision is torturous. I pray nonstop, that others lift their lids and really look
ME too
Me too.
The answer is the rich have bought and paid for the laws that keep everyone in their place. They own, and manipulate, the airwaves and cyberspace that spew their views. How people vote against their self interests is beyond me.
Using campaigns of hate while dividing us works. EVERY TIME.
I agree. Garland has done virtually nothing, and we are in deep trouble.
Greedy bastards value tax cuts over everything! And they think that if Trump installs himself as Dicktator that he won't pull a Putin on them? They don't think he'll demand a cut of everything they do if not a 75% stake in their operations? Everyone one of these assholes better start thinking about what their life will really be like under the Dear Leader...or what their life will be like if the people of this country wake the fuck up and realize that their enemies are not gay or immigrants or trans or brown or women. Their enemies are the American plutocrats who have been robbing this country blind since the days of the last senile president, Ronnie Raygun.
You are so right. I have been saying this too. The second he gets in he will send his own personal military after all of them and take it all. I don't even think he would leave them a percentage at all. He woukd just steam roll them over. They deserve it. But we do not and that is why we must do everything possible to prevent this. We have nothing to lose except everything.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. We are the sans sabots of the modern era. We can defeat the aristocracy at the ballot box or, if they steal the election, need to consider Jacobin solutions.
That is s very bitter pill to swallow. Fortunately, many neighbors from the North have expressed that we would be welcome there...
They want cheap labor, serfs are preferable. They believe they are entitled to their wealth, and f everyone else. Shame on the spineless ex-gop, who gave away democracy for the illusion of power. Many of them will end up in prison when trump decides he wants their companies, too.
He cannot be a dicktator. Have you not heard about the tiny mushroom you need a microscope to find? lol
I did say "wannabe", right?
One should be more worried about those who are propping tfg up. Tfg is cognitively going downhill fast & soon he may be rendered unable to function due to his dementia. Who’s to stop them from using the 25th Amendment to remove tfg & replace him once he is no further use to them?
I'm sad for America and the rest of the world. Being British, if he ever sets foot in the WH again we will suffer too. How can these sycophantic followers of his be this stupid to try to damage their own country and be so ignorant, I was going to say selfish, but those, the people, have nothing to gain and everything to lose, healthcare being one of them, seems they just don't care. It defies all belief.
For many MAGAs their goal is easily understood due to their Christian Nationalist mindset--As long as they are perceived better than any one who they despise or hate, then take all of their money and dignity for the sense of false pride. President Johnson stated:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”― Lyndon B. Johnson
That is so true.
Trump just gets scarier every day. I'm appalled at the number of people just like Trump who put money above everything else. Clearly I'm naive, because I thought that as a country we were better than that. That said, with the books I've been reading lately, which teach me a true history of our country, I'm not terribly surprised that the ultra-rich are behind Trump.
The deep dive into the truth and not believing as fact the history as we were taught. I’ve been doing the deep dive into many areas and finding almost everything I was ever taught is biased, twisted, myths and often, downright lies. This goes for history, religions, philosophy and even some science and mathematics. As a metaphor, we send telescope into space, look as far as we can see and see the origins of the universe was created by a big bang. Creationist love this as evidence of God.
We send up a larger more powerful telescope that can see much further and find what we believed was not true, big bang may not have haven’t. Creationist don’t like this.
As you see, diving deeper into the history of our county, we are not and never have been the shining light on the hill. Our great founding fathers recruited the poor to fight the evil king so that they could protect their wealth built on slavery and conquest of land. Also, they were able to maintain their dominion over women and not give them any rights like voting.
It goes on and on until one concludes the same thing Socrates finally concluded “I KNOW nothing.”
Amen to that! I wish more people understood our true history. We must be reading some of the same books, though I don't have the energy any more to go beyond our country's history. With the way our country is going, it makes me glad that I am an old woman. I don't know how much longer I have here on earth, but I will spend my time learning, and clinging to the good things I have in my life.
The biased white man's fantasy US History taught in schools is a waste of time. All I learned was convenient lies to make the European Invaders' progeny feel good. At home it was a different story.
You said that the US has never been the shining beacon on the hill BUT to those people coming from war-torn countries or countries in the midst of famine, we were that beacon. We have been built on the backs of those who immigrated for something better than what they possibly risked life and limb just to get here.
Many years ago I read that the US is a country ruled by Gemini, the twins. As time goes on, I’m believing that there may be something to it.
Some of the ones that are really great are 1) The 1619 Project; 2) Caste; 3) The Warmth of Other Suns (#2&3 are by Isabel Wilkerson); 4) Begin Again (Eddie Glaude); 5) Tears We Cannot Stop (Michael Eric Dyson); What Truth Sounds Like (also by MED). I've read all these. I also have two more that are in line to be read: 400 Souls (Malcolm X Kendi, ed); and Madness by Antonia Hylton. I've also been reading everything I can get my hands on by N. Scott Momaday, who successfully lived in both Native American society and western society. He is a wonderful voice for the Native Americans' experience. All the books I've read are very well written, but the subject matter is difficult to read. It is well worth taking the time for them.
Here is an amazing book, unrelated to Gemini:
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
SETTLER COLONIALISM, the idea of WHITE SUPREMACY, AFRICAN SLAVERY, and a policy of GENOCIDE AND LAND THEFT.
tRump and his cronies SHANGRILA
Thank you! I'll be ordering that book today.
I hope you find it as interesting and heartbreaking as I did!
Thank you, Veronica. I'm sure I will find it both interesting and heartbreaking. One of the reasons I recommend reading Scott Momaday's books is because he captures all of that. He was Kiowa (he just died this January), and he was the first Native American I ever met - he taught the most memorable class I took as an undergraduate back in the mid-60s, and although I have always appreciated him, my appreciation is much greater all these years later. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn is a good place to start.
It would be helpful to have a list of the Industrialists so we can boycott , if possible, their companies.
Link::
https://x.com/bidenhq/status/1776715925728678275?s=46
My thoughts too Kaye
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might write, "First, we kill all the billionaires."
But instead of killing them, we must elect people who will see to it that billionaires do not have excessive power over our gov't, pay increasing amounts of their income in taxes, and are forced to abide by all the laws enacted that preserve our democracy. We need to end all suppression of the votes, enact more severe penalties for fraud of all kinds, and increase investigations of all white collar crime, among other preventive measures. We have to get money out of politics by limiting all contributions, making campaigns much shorter, and limiting dollars spent on media buys. We must also rid gov't of unethical judges and make the extreme court judges toe the ethical lines their lower court colleagues must toe. In other words, political money has to be scrutinized like never before.
We need to know who these supporters are and boycott their companies!
Check out @bidenharrishq on Threads they posted a list with pictures. Most of them aren’t in businesses you & I can boycott, but we can name & shame them by sharing the post to ALL your social media
$824,600 From *one* person? Are there no contribution limits at all anymore? I guess not… 🤔😉😊
Difference is those Dem Presidents didn't attempt a coup, didnt incite a terrorist attack on our Capitol and havent vowed to pardon the terrorists.
Wow you don't even know that Trump is charged with federal and state felonies for attempting a coup?! Please go read the criminal charges versus Trump in the election interference case and Fulton County https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/07/politics/trump-indictments-criminal-cases/
Hey, troll, you said “charged” not “convicted”. He’s been charged. Stop moving the goals. 🤔😉😊
You know what’s scary? A troll like you supporting a CONVICTED rapist. And the judge clarified that calling ir sexual assault doesn’t make it anything but rape. So you want convicted criminals—proven guilty in the White House. Takes one to know one as they say. You give yourself away.
Ever heard of J6 committee?. Read up bone head.
The Biden event was open to 5000 people; the minumum ticket was $250. The average was $5000.
The Trump event was attended by 100 people, and the minimum was $5000. The average was $500,000.
Not perceiving the difference between the two would be only the result of bias and willful ignorance. 🤔😉😊
This is why Project 2025 scares me. Heritage Foundation and its backers are actively working to ensure their agenda will succeed no matter who is in office. They're doing it in plain sight.
Enacting project 2025 is enough to make me ride my bike to canada and mexico and even die trying to get there. Its horrifying.
I know. I don't understand why it isn't being discussed every night on MSNBC. Maybe it's like when we got laughed at for calling Trump a fascist seven years ago. Maybe Project 2025 sounds too much like a tin-foil hat conspiracy theory, but Heritage is putting out press releases about it, for God's sake.
That’s exactly it. It sounds so insane that when you explain it, people laugh in your face. We live in the upside down. This same strategy is how they overturned roe. We were all yelling and screaming that they would do it. The public said we were being hysterical. Well… fuck me cuz they did it. And they aren’t gonna stop.
True and terrifying.
I hear you loud and clear. It is 00:16 at my location and I am WIDE AWAKE. I have never been an insomniac until now and all this....plus the rest of the global craziness
I highly recommend a Substack by Andra Watkins called “How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life”
She was raised in the extreme Evangelical Christian Nationalist community & is reading that doc & explaining what they mean to do with it that will affect our daily lives
Consider subscribing to Andra Watkin’s Substack “How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life” She was raised in the extreme Evangelical Christian Nationalist community & she is reading Project 2025 & then interpreting it for us from that community’s POV- what they mean to do if Trump or really ANY Republican gets in the WH.
I highly recommend her
I wish there were a list of those that attended so we could see who these anti-democratic scoundrels are. Why should they be allowed to hide in the shadows?!
The Biden campaign posted the list on sm. I saw it at
@bidenharrishq on Threads but I’m sure it’s on X & probably IG too
Maybe a comic book rendition of the book “Hell‘s Cartels,” mentioned in this essay, would be useful to educate the 60% of Trump voters with a high school education or less?
When did greed become . . . GOOD?
. . . other than in the twisted soul of some fictional character!?!?!?
It has been the lay of the land ever since humanity developed ownership of lands for agriculture and maintaining animals for sustenance. Not coincidentally, that is also when humanity was afflicted with disease and constant warfare countenanced by mythical religions.
Sure, greed may be something of a natural human inclination; so is selfishness in general, so is reacting violently and destructively whenever angry or frustrated. But, I'm sure you'd agree, it's crazy for any such tendency to be celebrated, let alone seriously regarded as (morally) "good."
Morally good? Not sure what frame of reference you are using to refer to morals. If you mean morals that come from a religion, then I must see you as the philosopher Wittgenstein saw the lion. That is we cannot communicate as I see religions as amoral and used by the greedy to control the masses.
In you are thinking “morally” as derived from the ethics proposed by different philosophers like Kant, then I’m again not able to communicate with you. To be honest, I’m not sure what morality is and again retreat to my Socratic space that “I know nothing.”
Ok. I admit I speculating, and thinking a bit crudely, and without regard to anything like metaphysical certainty (as politics and social criticism always does) I'm thinking merely of what can intuitively be understood to benefit society and humankind in general. I personally have no use for religion's nonsense either; but I do value civility and the idea of "the humane," and what promotes it.
I met serval people who practice the “Religion” of KINDNESS. Everyone was an atheist. I appreciate your thoughtful responses.
That is my religion Kindness, or just the very basic “do unto others” rule
I was raised in the Christian faith but as I grew & learned, I drifted away from it. I would still rarely go to church with my sister just to humor her, but now…? No, not gonna pretend, I just don’t believe that nonsense
The movie, Wall Street
We have made the billionaires too wealthy. We need to go back to the taxes of the 60s and tax them at 60-70%. If we don’t they will destroy democracy. There really is no choice here. The cap MUST be raised on social security so billionaires pay the same percentages as the rest of us. We need Biden to win the Presidency again and then have a really strong Democratic President after him. We need to strengthen our courts with Democrats and Biden needs to expand the Supreme Court because the GOP extremists on the court have gone rogue.
Excellent article and historical overview on what has taken place in the past, and what is currently taking place in our country. If we fail to study and learn from history, it is bound to repeat itself!
Wouldn’t it make sense to know bit inky who these wealthy traitors are, but to know what industries they make their money in, what niche they sell a product in, a brand name to NEVER (and tell your friends) Ever to buy again?
Let’s cancel that revenue stream.
It’s not enough for a few of us to boycott their products etc. We know who they are: The Koch’s, Leonard Leo, Leaders of the Federalist Society. Look up who Justice Thomas is vacationing with. Many times the richest folks lie about their products, I’m looking at you Purdue Pharma to make money. They don’t care who they hurt they only care about $$$. The wealthy fight against regulations daily so they can spend less money and they make our food, our water, and our air less safe. The GOP supports all of these rich monsters.
Many of us do not. And a large, loud campaign to affect these company’s bottom lines will have, historically has had the biggest effect.
So…let’s broadcast it. Before it’s just too much of a monopoly and requires a revolution.
Know a bit* about…I should know better than to post without glasses and proofreading. I’m sorry!
John Paulson stood early alongside Donald Trump as Trump decried the state of an empty factory in Youngstown blaming, of course, progressive policies and knowing that Paulson’s hedge fund was responsible for closing the factory and offshoring a huge segment of the US auto parts manufacturing business even after accepting billions in TARP funds to keep its US factories open.