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In reply to the discussion: We are in a war for our lives. The war is between the 1% elite and the 99%. You are hopelessly [View all]AdHocSolver
(2,561 posts)First of all, President Obama is not part of the one percent. He only works for the one percent.
That said, he does care about the 99 percent, but he can only disagree to a certain extent with the powers that be.
History can explain what is happening in this country, and what needs to happen to reverse the trend toward economic and political collapse.
We are experiencing a repetition of the 1920's and the 1930's by the membership of the one percent.
The one percent are not totally monolithic. Their are two factions. the "reasonable" one percent and the right wing "rabid" one percent.
There were two groups of one percenters back in the 1920's and 1930's. One group was headed by crooked bankers and Wall Street types who supported what was happening in Germany at that time.
The other group of the one percenters opposed the lawlessness and crooked behavior of that group. They promoted one of their own to be the president, a guy named Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The rabid wing of the one percenters decided to pull a coup d'etat and approached Major General Smedley Butler to lead it. He exposed the plot and it never happened.
The lesson from history is that it would take a member of the one percent who was backed by the moderate centrists and who opposed the policies of the right wing in order to prevent economic and political collapse. This is the type of people we need to find and elect to office.
There is no way a progressive could get elected, and no way anyone could successfully fight the "rabid" wing of the one percenters without the support of the moderate centrist wing of the one percent.