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In reply to the discussion: Curious about your thoughts [View all]chknltl
(10,558 posts)In my particular spiritual paradigm, full equality worldwide is one of humanity's most important goals.
Economic equality is not discussed so far but it should be equally valid to the discussion because it is arguably at the core of much of humanity's deepest current miseries. Those with economic abilities far exceeding the abilities of the majority of this world's citizenship are the bullies, they cow into submission and even murder any of us for profit.
Hundreds of thousands just in Iraq are recently dead for this reason is a good recent example. Note, I place no blame on politicians here, that blame goes solely on the shoulders of those who caused that war because they expected to profit from it. This war plan for profiting the economically over-privileged is a recurring theme throughout human history.
How is economic inequality, as I just laid out, so very different than either racism or sexism in their bigger scheme of things.-(note the period instead of a question mark). The horrors and nightmares, imo are just not that different.
Call it my spiritual paradigm or call it what you will but I believe that for humanity to survive in a greater universe to come we first must learn to treat one another as equal. It is this desire to see the human race taking baby steps down the loooong road to that envisioned equality that prompts my support for Senator Sanders.