Has anyone seen the new E-Trade commercials running, which sum up the problem with modern America?
They show some frustrated grunt workers, being scorned and scoffed at by rich assholes in superior positions. They end with a tag-line that basically says, "Don't get mad- you too can become one of the Elite! Just invest whatever little money you have in our Wall St. Casino Capitalism software!"
This mindset is what nurtures sociopathy, plants seeds for the alt-right, and hollows out religious doctrine into entitled hypocrisy. Inequality, injustice, and ego-driven class warfare has not only been normalized, but is encouraged and sold as the Smart Path Forward, promoting dog-eat-dog life.
The whole point of human Civilization was that preying upon each other should be discarded; that communities working together was more sustainable. Capitalism's start as Friendly Market Competition has now sunk to legislating removal of any legal choice but subservience to established hierarchy.
If that sounds like an extreme description, really think about it. Banks play speculation games so dangerous they lose billions, yet are bailed out and unpunished. Those same banks repossessed homes from poor citizens then sat on them till prices went up. Meanwhile, just being homeless is illegal.
America incarcerates more of its own citizens than anywhere on earth, often in a for-profit prison system guaranteed to remain full through legal arrangement with the 'impartial' courts. Healthcare is for-profit, more expensive than any other developed nation, thus unavailable to a "gig economy".
According to what capitalism passes off as "news", blame for every issue can be absorbed by one of dozens of sponsored divisive blind alleys- foreign Bad Guys. Partisan Bad Guys. Labels, reassigned to whatever group needs controlling. Yet no solutions with peace, real representation or equality.
According to the bible, Jesus was a socialist who fought directly against the "money-changers" and sociopathic elite class who convinced the people to toil on their behalf under normalized tyranny. Which is what every Christian would be doing, if their beliefs were not reversed to now defend it.
Small people will empower and serve those refusing to share power in the hopes of getting some too. Great people will call out societal carnivores and unite to correct any imbalanced system of power. It's the weak who care about themselves more than any other. Only the strong care about everyone.
"That's just the way the game is played" is bad indoctrination which defies any supposed "Freedom".
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