America Is Becoming a Bit More Liberal. That's Pretty Unusual Six Years Into a Democratic Presidency

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85. Ha. That was fun. <G>. "apocalyptic scenarios". I have had the same. But over time as I read

Myles Horton, Freire, Alinsky, the priest who founded Mondragon, Mother Jones, Matles and othe IWW folks, I came to realize that the only hope is for the oppressed to be led into helping themselves learn to take control of the assets, via business and ownership. (Some can rise to the occasion, but most times the human spirit has been beaten down so much among those with little or no income that they simply don't have the means without outside assistance and encouragement).

Because even in the French Revolution the people who started it became the last victims of the same guillotine that cut the heads off the tyrants in the beginning, and the wealthy took over. Mother Jones and the IWW and Industrial unions tried to encourage people to take control. Their efforts were associated with the communists and the socialists to hurt them, even though they said they rejected those ideas as not useful here, but they were never able to create what they meant because Gompers and the Business\Trade Unions, along with the government, business, and most of the population killed them or ran them off or carved them away from the effort with incentives. And here we are today.

Mondragon isn't a perfect example, but their rebellion, against a much more bloodthirsty dictator, was to teach a group cooperative principles and enough technical skills to build current technology, then borrow money from neighbors and begin to operate those assets as a cooperative. Today their revenue is in the billions of euros, and their unemployment is less than the areas around them. Even the Steelworkers have started to worked with them.

I think people get caught up in the admittedly delicious site of the serial killers we call bankers getting even a tenth of a percent of the pain and horror they have caused others through their theft and malfeasance, but that does nothing to make sure their victims can walk away from their oppression, or even to help them realize how screwed over they really are, by many they trust.

Instead I think there are populist ways we could structure it so people learn how they could free themselves from this plantation, these rentiers and perhaps not return. But in order to do that we would have to quit being so afraid of each other, and I think the world is gonna burn up b4 that happens.

Thank you for the video.