gipper
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Stop believing right wing propaganda. You are no different than the lefties who swallow left wing propaganda.If you vote for Bernie, then you're a king sized sucker.I have never voted D for potus. Though I’m not proud of this, since both parties are pretty much the same. Actually I’m ashamed of some of the asshole Rs I’ve voted for.You just make sure you vote for one of the wealthy Democrats as you're told.Big business sure does rule the country, since they control the federal government."Big business rule?" What a joke. Business has never ruled anything. Big business has only manage to emerge because the power of political rule has been reduced. When politicians have control over your means of survival, you can depend on them taking the biggest share for themselves. Business can only become big by serving the consumer.I found this great column just for you. Please read. Can you refute it?
The Long History of Elite Rule: What Will It Take To End It?
Elites have ruled over people and commanded the surplus produced by their labor for many millennia. It is this long history we have to contend with in today’s crisis of capitalism that has produced endless wars and environmental catastrophes as corporate billionaire rulers continue to promote business as usual while preparing to fight each other with armed forces and nuclear weapons. This has all been “normalized.” Concentrated elite power ends up massively distorting people’s understanding of the nature of big business rule. Their highly paid spokes people even shamelessly deploy concepts like “freedom” and “liberty” to rationalize the enslaving and killing of millions for profits in resource wars. But we also need to understand that despite this long reign of (t)error, human beings lived for most of their evolutionary history (a much longer period of time than that during which elites have ruled) in nomadic hunter-gatherer societies where life conditions produced a rough equality among the Paleolithic family groups. If there was anything that could be called freedom here, it was a consequence of a primitive subsistence level that demanded participation from all in obtaining the means of survival while providing minimal incentives for large-scale social conflicts. Cooperation was primary; it is what made human societies — not competition. These conditions also kept the human populations low and in balance with available resources, while as some anthropologists speculate (see Marshall Sahlins), providing significant amounts of free time for cultivating social ties.
We also need to understand that anyone trying to change things for the benefit of the masses of the people – even when they try to play within the rules set by big business — will be the targets of endless media efforts to demonize and disqualify them.
The Long History of Elite Rule: What Will It Take To End It? - CounterPunch.org
What a surprise that you would ridicule concepts like freedom and liberty. That's what tyrants have always done.
Counter Punch is a Marxist publication, BTW. What a surprise that you would quote it.
I don’t vote any more but if Bernie gets the nomination, I might.
I was a dumb con once, like you. I learned long ago it’s all a scam. When will you?