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[TheKentuckian]

30. Capable and effective aren't always the same thing.

I'd argue as a movement we are failing in epic fashion in dealing with income and wealth disparity, floundering on the best day in protecting civil liberties, and are between mediocre and dicey on equality.

I also lean in the direction that if we don't deal with the economics successfully all the rest will wither and die. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

Of course equality is far from a distraction, the distraction is trying to use government as the tool to enforce thought and speech control because it seems like an amazingly poorly thought out reaction likely to have a much greater net downside than any possible gain.

There also seems to be a desire among many who identify on the left to focus on social issues and largely let the economics go. The idea that anything like actual equality can come out of this system seems absurd.

I'm just not seeing much walking or gum chewed over the last several decades, in fact we are going backward pretty damn fast and ever more free trade, corporate power, and concentration of wealth while workers have less and less hand by the year and opportunity dwindles.

Walking and chewing gum at the same time sounds good but is it actually true in real world outcomes? In a corporatist nation there are no rights or self determination. Empty pockets and scurrying between low wage jobs to maintain the home fires makes any trip to the mountaintop damn near impossible.