It's true that corporate profits have never been higher. And still, they want more.

[Uncle Joe]

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[multigraincracker]

1. Free Market Capitalism 101...

Always puts profits before people.

[ShazamIam]

2. The wealthiest fund and direct the war against each other and the wealthiest control the media.

So we have to all be resistors and privately seek unity, it won't come from the media and our media seems to shut out any messengers promoting unity against their own interests.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I agree ShazamIam,

the corporate media simply have too many financial conflicts of interest to be honest brokers in regards to the public good.

When Ronald Reagan said "government was the problem" the corporate media and their commercial buying corporate clients loved that shit because it signaled a shift from the government actually promoting the general welfare to promoting private; aka corporate welfare.



I believe this near half century of dysfunctional, myopic greed is good national mindset promoted by the corporate media has led directly the rise of Trump and unless this dynamic is significantly altered, more and probably worse Trumps will rise to power.

[Chainfire]

4. Greed didn't just happen in the last 50 years.

Successful societies find ways to put limits on how far greediness can take a person.

What we have done is allowed the foxes to design and build the security systems for the hen houses. That is why we are constantly getting plucked. We could go a long way to getting a handle on insatiable greed by demanding meaningful campaign finance reform. We have to get corporate America out of the polling places and quit letting the CEOs buy House and Senate seats. Our system of electing those who make our laws is badly broken. "We the People" has been redefined as we the top 1%.

It has gone so far that now, it will take torches and pitchforks to get meaningful changes. I don't think that we have the energy to force changes. We know what needs to be done.

[Uncle Joe]

5. I have no doubt the American People will have the energy, however the preeminent question

becomes whether that energy will be constructive or destructive and I believe the primary determinant of that dynamic will be how long it takes our nation to "cross the Rubicon" of societal evolution.

I don't believe time is on our side.