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When a floor is established to support basic human needs, the minimum wage, housing, jobs, health, education, food, the quality of air and water, it does the opposite of conservatives claim. .
They say it impoverishes others who have all those things to pay for those who aren't deserving of them, and they employ an entire industry convincing the voters of that falsehood. If all poverty and all it entails, was eliminated, there would be no whip of fear to lash the middle and working class.
They must keep up inequality to make division. Really, there is no way to divide us when we accept each other. That is unity and it requires we love each other and see others as good as ourselves.
The ripple effect of bankruptcies for medical costs, lost employment from illness and deaths to feed vulture capitalism. Stealing their chance for advancement, homes and lives, leaving their next of kin disadvantaged for years and for further preying upon.
The GOP preys upon the weak egos of those who do not feel they can compete with those they now disdain, so they screw others by their votes.
Americans lost their identity to a commercial culture to value dead things which do not last as they discount iving ones. That's why the media is so very powerful, to keep the American people in that box.
The media is not producing ideas to inspire thinkers or philosophers, or even those who are marginally aware of the true value of their time and their lives. If they were, they'd settle down and devote their efforts to things to benefit future generations. Their vision is tiny:
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
~ Barack Obama
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