The American public finally sees what progressives have been screaming in the wilderness for more than 40 years. It's a class struggle, y'all! The elite have used racism and misogyny to divide and conquer. Through behemoth corporations, their wealthy owners have dismantled our local, state and federal governments. Government is supposed to be "by and for the people" to maintain order, ensure safety, protect individual rights, and promote the general welfare of its citizens. Instead, corporate America has paid politicians to eliminate regulations that protect citizens. The tech oligarchs want to privatize the Social Security Administration, the Veterans Administration, the Post Office, NOAA, Education and other agencies. The quality and amount of services from those agencies has already been drastically reduced. Business people don't understand and don't know how to manage the government. Contrary to popular opinion, governing is necessary and complicated.
Thanks for this essay and the source materials. Your blog and a few sources I follow help me keep attuned to the real problems. I'm convinced that we must work within the political system, vote for people with concrete solutions which empower the people who lack it. One example--tax the richest and close corporate loopholes; use the tax revenue to lower costs of healthcare, dependent care, schooling, housing, defense. The national/federal system under Rs favors the inequitable status quo and resists scientific, ecological ways of strengthening the least and middle class.
The American public finally sees what progressives have been screaming in the wilderness for more than 40 years. It's a class struggle, y'all! The elite have used racism and misogyny to divide and conquer. Through behemoth corporations, their wealthy owners have dismantled our local, state and federal governments. Government is supposed to be "by and for the people" to maintain order, ensure safety, protect individual rights, and promote the general welfare of its citizens. Instead, corporate America has paid politicians to eliminate regulations that protect citizens. The tech oligarchs want to privatize the Social Security Administration, the Veterans Administration, the Post Office, NOAA, Education and other agencies. The quality and amount of services from those agencies has already been drastically reduced. Business people don't understand and don't know how to manage the government. Contrary to popular opinion, governing is necessary and complicated.
Thanks for this essay and the source materials. Your blog and a few sources I follow help me keep attuned to the real problems. I'm convinced that we must work within the political system, vote for people with concrete solutions which empower the people who lack it. One example--tax the richest and close corporate loopholes; use the tax revenue to lower costs of healthcare, dependent care, schooling, housing, defense. The national/federal system under Rs favors the inequitable status quo and resists scientific, ecological ways of strengthening the least and middle class.