Monday, December 4, 2017

America is on life support and republicans are pulling the plug! (#3230)

     The republican agenda to end government care for the vast majority of Americans who are victims of unfettered capitalism is a death knell to us. Somehow republicans have put into their heads the illusion that everyone has an equal shot at being successful when in reality very few do. There are only so many opportunities for the non wealthy to gain access into the upper echelons of economic success and that it is nearly impossible even for those few who do get far enough along to have a chance. The wealthy protect their club of wealthy in ways that prohibit most of us from ever being able to have great economic success. The system is rigged against the many of us who are not starting out with wealth in that gaining access to capital is brutal and legalized theft in my mind.
     With everything having a cost attached to it makes becoming wealthy for a poor person an impossible dream. Even when the capital is gained those supplying the capital worm their way into the innovation or creation such that it rarely remains the property of the initial creator. Yes, intellectual and mechanical theft of opportunity is what the wealthy supply as their contribution to society. Now all wealthy are not such manipulators but the vast majority of the wealthy are just opportunists looking for a mark. So the idea that anyone can be wealthy if they only try is ludicrous and just a tease for those to try so the wealthy can carpetbag their effort. Capitalism is a good thing in theory when it is subject to social needs and societal norms. But that isn't what republicans are selling. They are selling the philosophy that capitalism on it's own is what we need. No social programs, no governmental regulation of retirement systems or overseen health care.
     The days of dog eat dog are just what republicans want and the fact that many will suffer and die because of their callous greed is inconsequential to their agenda and the stone coldness of their hearts. They don't want to have a society that is available for all to participate in, on the contrary they want a society that is beholden to them in a privatized way without government protections of equality and fairness. To republicans justice is whatever suits the needs of the wealthy; and the poor, sick, old and children are unnecessary resources that need to just go away. Instead of maintaining the greatest democracy on Earth and improving it's efficiency and effectiveness, republicans are trying to prematurely bury our society in the hope that democracy will die and a privileged and advantaged form of aristocracy will be born from it's ashes.

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