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I can not get this out of my mind: There are always people getting very rich in places where there is great poverty. Drug dealers (high up the chain) in poverty stricken inner cities is an example that comes immediately to mind but a host of small nations operate in much the same way. High level predators are more than able to feast where others starve. In fact it could be argued that a weak and poverty stricken society is the easiest prey.
The Koch brothers and their likes do not care what they do to this country. They do not care how poor we become, in fact the poorer the better.
I can not get this out of my mind either: For a long time I thought we were becoming, or had become, a fascist nation. I see fascism as the melding of Government and Industry (the corporate world) into one who's priority in governance is always in favor of the commercial interest over the individual or class of individuals. "Down with the Corporations" has been my cry. But then I thought about all the people I know who operate their own small businesses. And then I realized that most of the nation's businesses are small owner/operator and it is not they that are trying to take over Government. No, it is a much smaller group and it is not the Corporations that are being favored so much as their it is a small group of very rich people who happen to also own or control a few very large corporate/industrial money makers. What we have is not Fascism, it is a Plutocracy. What they have done is genius. They now have us fighting an amorphous blob - all corporations everywhere - when the real target should be a much more self-centered elite. And who are these elite? Well, we have the much-deamonized Koch brothers, but they have to just be the tip of the iceberg. Look at it this way, Republicans are constantly pushing for lower taxes or no taxes at all and that is being pushed from somewhere; Warren Buffett and Bill Gates both tell us they pay too little and that their billionaire friends feel the same way. Well, who is it then?
And maybe one again I'm full of shit, but at least I got these two things off my chest.
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