“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte

(Inspired by the Calvin & Hobbes strip about religion being the opium of the masses)

John Mayall and Friends painted the picture for me before Frank Zappa and Don Pardo blew up Saturday Night Live...

Inequality For All

Very good video. I wish Bernie could get Hanauer on his team. He might turn on the light bulb for some of the lower and middle class people who have bought into the "job creator" and "all taxes are bad" rhetoric. This is a strong message coming from a guy who has made boatloads of money as a capitalist.

because he seems like a consummate Regular Joe who just happened to hit the jackpot.

Simple, declarative English sentences filled with truth.

know when and where.

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They can see it coming too!

That had a small wealthy class surrounded by a large poverty class. We called them things like Banana Republics, etc.

We are Argentina just before the money crashed and burned.

I cannot believe that all the candidates on the republican side and h are all for it. And we just may elect one of them. I cannot see me being able to do that.

that he used to deal with in times of economic crisis when he was at the IMF in this 2009 article "The Quiet Coup".

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/307364/

They do know from time to time the people rise up when too much has been taken from them. So those in power take, and take, and take a little more and when we start to show some resistance they offer a few more scraps to shut us up. The question is will they offer enough scraps to allow the people enough to actually live off of?

...who have repeatedly demonstrated that they have advanced weapons and aren't hesitant to use them.

the government is collecting plenty of data on all of us.

Naw, it's cause he pulled the rug up and showed us the roaches.

I have considered him an American hero.

Those militarized police forces aren't militarized because of gang violence or the terrorist threat.

There are, however, less than a million badge-and-gun-carrying LEOs in this country. The math doesn't favor them, if things actually do get pushed too far.

the tenth-percenters do not trust the uniformed military, who come from the lower economic strata, to turn on the people when the shit hits the fan.

The kkkops, many of whom are borderline sociopath power/control freaks, will gleefully mow down the people to protect their tenth-percenter owners. but there are a lot more of us than them, and the average kkkop is none too bright.

But numbers don't always matter.
You need critical thinking as well.

Now, a very great man once said
That some people rob you with a fountain pen
It didn’t take too long to find out
Just what he was talkin’ about
A lot of people don’t have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks ’n’ knives
And they gotta cut somethin’

-- Bob Dylan Talkin New York 1962

Greedy rich people have NEVER conceded one nickel without a fight
to the finish, where the people demand it, and win.

So let's not kid ourselves, our Plutocrats are NEVER going to concede ANY thing to a
President who has enriched themselves with corporate "donations" and "speaking fees".

and since Hillary's for capital punishment, I guess she'd approve.

would be a fine start. It could probably be kept very busy for a while.

I think we are getting a taste of it now whats to come. Manufacturing and highly skilled labor will become a thing of the past. Even doctors will be replaced by AI and robot surgery. And the owners will get even richer if something radical isnt done like a generous guaranteed min income for the bottom 90% of the population.

When they also run countries, very bad shit happens.

be brought down and democracy will take hold and freedom and equity for all .

I couldn't do it, could not be a rich CEO and pay my workers peanuts.

And yes, they had best find some empathy sooner rather than later.

never took a salary of greater than $300,000 per year. He lived in the same apartment in Tokyo for 40 years. He thought ostentations displays of wealth were vulgar and inappropriate, not to mention unfair to the people who built Sony into the giant it was even then.