T H I S -

[kpete]

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Exceptional.

Ism.

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...for truth...nt

[Mr. Steve]

18. Definitely yes.

Greed and avarice have no place in any civilized society.

[ShazamIam]

3. People haven't had a chance to adjust to our reality. We are only allowed to exist now if, if we

are working for low wages to make some rich person richer. We are their labor assets only. You are suppose to go buy in their, seller controlled and now nearly monopolized market for education, health care, transportation, energy for homes, food.

All low wage workers are easily replaceable, because every year millions are driven from their traditional lands which are then privatized to corporate or billionaire individual ownership along with the purchase of the governments. So, if you have too many poor, send them to the industrialized nations to be servants.

If they protest, shoot them like in Mexico, and China and most recently, Kazakhstan.

[malaise]

5. Profound

Follow the only thing that matters - money

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. For some the phrase is - Money is the only thing that matters.

[malaise]

9. Being rich is more important than being civilized

or decent. It’s truly sad

[jaxexpat]

14. Money is the 'civilized' metric of success.

Without it we'd be counting heads, ears or scalps.

[DENVERPOPS]

28. Agreed

You don't notice Uber Wealthy Dems stepping up to the plate for all of us very often....

They delight at the Republican/Trump tax cuts they get, as much as the Uber Wealthy Republicans do.......

[malaise]

29. Sad but true

[DENVERPOPS]

30. The Uber wealthy Repubs

are pouring tons into the Republican Party and Politicians, and covert groups.
The Dem Uber wealthy, not so much by a long shot.......

There has been way to much money, allowed to accumulate far too long, by too few people, to hold much promise for us in the future.

WASF

[paleotn]

6. We're devolving....

Much of the BBB legislation was enacted long ago in the civilized world, but here it's "controversial". Much of the progress our society made in the 20th century has been lost or weakened to the point of irrelevance. We've regressed back to the gilded age of economic serfdom. We're barbarians.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Nor presume to call itself "Christian".

[crickets]

23. +1

[twodogsbarking]

10. But wait, there's more.....

More than Forty Four Million Americans live below the poverty line.

[ShazzieB]

25. And the "poverty line" has been set artificially low.

Which means there are a LOT of people above that line who are living in actual poverty.

[twodogsbarking]

26. Indeed.

[ancianita]

11. It wasn't meant to be a country. The people who inhabited it meant it to be, but the owners never

told them that it was meant to be their corporate project all along. It's been one battle after another, with proxies serving to obscure who is behind the nation's land and resource control. Every initial settlement and land development was a corporate project. Find out who sold the land to settlers, initially, and you know who owns the land. Even if treaties settled foreign governments' control, corporations in those countries were meant to outlive and out-remember humans in this one, who have been led to believe they were free. The country and its constitution was a lease for the land inhabitants, properties categorized as "joint tenancy" or "tenants in common" or "tenants of the entirety," mineral rights never guaranteed, subject to "eminent domain," and transferred through title companies.

When corporatists have shown themselves to "set things straight," they tell humans that corporations are people, with all the same rights and protections, and that the US should be run like a business.

[kpete]

12. But,

Corporations are people
thanks to Scotus

[ancianita]

22. But,

Even SCOTUS knows that if humans and legal fictional personhoods have equal protection and standing under the US Constitution, those fictional personhoods must be subject to the same legal penalties for harm as humans are.
They are not.

There is charter dissolution -- corporate charter death -- but such executions historically don't happen no matter the chernobyl level of harm done.

Humans get the democracy they deserve, and like Covid and Climate, Corporate don't care either way.

[Mr. Ected]

13. It's not the Constitution that is killing us

It's the capitalism that's doing us in.

[Tommymac]

15. Unregulated Capitalism.

When Governments are doing their job and regulating the beast, it makes for a far less hurtful world.

Otherwise pure greed and selfishness are allowed to hold sway.

We need to start teaching ethics, government and sociology again to ALL middle school or earlier public school students in every State. And not just one year, they need to be in the curriculums through out secondary education.

[Mr. Ected]

16. Unmitigated Democracy Good

Unregulated Capitalism = Disaster

[Poiuyt]

31. Nobel Prize winning economist, Josepf Steiglitz has a philosophy called

"Progressive Capitalism." That has a nice ring to it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

37. It is unregulated capitalism for sure.

The problem is that this societal model has now been shown as being just too easily corrupted, even when it is being regulated. Time for a cool change.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

36. This👆

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. K&R

[Irish_Dem]

19. The US elite see the American public as totally expendable.

The elite insist the public should not get vaccinated and stop any protective measures.

[Evolve Dammit]

20. Damn right. Thank you

[niyad]

21. Exactly.

[Hekate]

24. Da-yum

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Not to mention we're #1 resource hog, nuclear proliferator and major polluter....

alongside China, our partner in crime and surrogate abuser.

It's as if we enjoy setting our house on fire and simultaneously flooding our basement, thinking it will extinguish the fire.


KY-EG..........

[Poiuyt]

32. I'm reminded of the opening scene from "Newsroom"

[OMGWTF]

33. Rethuglican and Dem corporate whores are why we can't have nice things.

[calimary]

34. There is that!

There MOST CERTAINLY is that!

[alphafemale]

35. Covid is not going away.

Do you want to shut down public education for the rest of time?

[OldBaldy1701E]

38. Not at all.

We went through a year of remote learning. So, that just did not work at all? If so, I do not see any of the schools making their entire student body repeat the entire last year.

Or, is this more about the free childcare/surrogate parenting than education?

Face it, we are rushing into trying to 'return to normal' when we should have been making changes to our society while everything was shut down. Another opportunity squandered because we are too brainwashed to accept any other societal model... even if it is destroying us.