We do not have to participate in this process of government that continues to steal from the poor and give to the rich. This society is capitalism gone mad and the madmen have taken over. It’s all about power and only the wealthy get power.
Depressed minimum wages are an instrument of the wealthy corporations. Many say that when minimum wages go up, so will cost of living. So far, in all locations that have increased minimum wage, this has not been true. What has happened in wages is not related to the cost of products actually, what is happening is that the minimum wages allow owners to be ridiculously wealthy and shareholders to profit, on the backs of the poor.
Please note all of the latest crimes against the middle class: a tax package that promised a tax cut, but has Gold Star families scrambling to pay for a dramatic increase in taxes over last year. A system that has suppressed DEA’s ability to go after and prosecute the opioid manufacturers. A system that continues to “outsource” human service issues such as education and the care of immigrant children. The people who are on the front lines are NOT making a profit from these government sanctioned travesties. The largest corporations along with their shareholders, the banks and Wall street are taking home the wealth. Let’s not belabor the point, the question really is:
Why do we participate? We have lost all respect for our president; he is a liar and a thief. Even his previous supporters must admit that he has helped no one but himself. He is only an instrument of the one-percenters. We have respect for the “position”, for the “president”, not the man. This does not serve us; it gets in our way of effective action.
We are like the Christians, in that we are now worshipping the empty vessel rather than the true and authentic body of holiness. America is NOT great today.
The well worn belief that we cannot do anything about weapons in this country is due to our love of the Constitution, yet today’s weapons have no resemblance to those weapons discussed in the Bill of Rights. So, while we love the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, we abhor the murder of innocent young children. We have done very little to prevent the murders of our children.
According to the Washington Post:
Firearms per 100 people: 88.8
Firearm homicides per 100,000: 3.21
Percent of homicides by guns: 67.5
While the U.S. houses less than 5 percent of the world’s population, the country has approximately 35–50 percent of civilian-owned guns worldwide, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
The U.S. has the highest firearm related homicide rate among developed nations, continued the Council on Foreign Relations, “though some analysts say these statistics do not necessarily have a cause-and-effect relationship.”
Why do we continue down this path? I believe there are two reasons for this mistake: one is that we believe in the authority of the position, two is that there is a war in this country for power, we are the unwitting pawns in this war.
We must stop honoring old institutions and bring order to our country based on what is going on now. Not only must we look at new inequities (our founding fathers were considering the recent independence from England), we must reconsider everything that is outdated. We must review the Constitution and we must add a new Constitution, one that honors all that we are now.
Bill of Rights states:
“AMENDMENT VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.”
We understand that twenty dollars of two hundred years ago is very different than the twenty dollars of today and so we have updated our standards in relation to Amendment VII.
We must consider this update for every single Amendment in the Bill of rights. We must. Yesterday is not better, nor more important than today. Quite the contrary, today is more important than any yesterday has ever been.
Donald Trump and the Republican Congress are liars and thieves, stop respecting position and treat them like the people that they are.