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In reply to the discussion: Is there a cabal of Plutocrats trying to decimate the working class? Yup. [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)6. BIG DURec.
Anyone who has been awake during the last 30 - 40 years already KNOWS this in their gut.
You did an excellent job of presenting, organizing, and supporting the data.
Thanks.
There IS some hope.
Many of our neighbors in Latin America have successfully wrested their governments from the hands of the 1%.
They have given us a Blue Print for near bloodless revolution.
(Bloodless IF you don't count the martyrs of the years of oppression preceding the elections)
[font size=3]"The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that nation states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated."[/font]
----Bolivian Reform President Evo Morales
[font size=1]Pssssst. FDR said much the same thing in 1944 with his Economic Bill of Rights,
----Bolivian Reform President Evo Morales
but FDR and THAT Democratic Party are long dead.[/font]
We have some work to do.
Look to the successful reforms of the Populist Revolutions if South & Central America,
but you won't hear about it from the 1% OWNED US Media,
or from either Political Party who will continue to Demonize these revolutions
and support the few remaining Right Wing Police States like Colombia.
VIVA Democracy!
I pray we get some here soon.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
[font size=5 color=green]Solidarity99![/font][font size=2 color=green]
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Is there a cabal of Plutocrats trying to decimate the working class? Yup. [View all]
Zalatix
May 2012
OP
Yes, Citigroup's Plutonomy/Plutocracy article is what educated me to the concept.
Zalatix
May 2012
#4
Some good points- especially one of my pet peeves, which is: When does repeated...
Poll_Blind
May 2012
#5
The Koch Brothers have done more damage to America than Al Qaeda could ever dream of.
Initech
May 2012
#9
It isn't genocide it is culling of the herd and it doesn't matter if that is the objective or not
TheKentuckian
May 2012
#37
you're confused. a definition of the word cabal from wikipedia is not evidence that
cali
May 2012
#17
The problem with the Plutocracy is that they consider the 99% to be useless eaters.
Zalatix
May 2012
#33
There will always be doubters. What's happening is that there IS ............
socialist_n_TN
May 2012
#39
And the politics of division is another part of how the Plutocrats achieve this
Zalatix
May 2012
#40