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In reply to the discussion: Yes Bernie, the System is Rigged. Whining about it won't win you Black votes. Here's why. [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)in with that kind of attitude because I'm trying to point out a truly horrible situation which may redeem us in your eyes - we're all, but especially you, are being gamed by Mrs Clinton. In a particularly cruel way, I think.
Because their- the neoliberals' scheme, which has been in the making for 20 years- pits all of us ere in the US, against people in developing countries, in competition for the same jobs.
And its going to really hurt the public sector and eliminate carve outs for women and minority owned businesses, unless you get carve outs put in there for them somehow.
Like the Europeans put audiovisual services in there.
This also explains something ugly about school privatization. I think.
Its a big and complicated thing that I think I should just leave at this. We are not your enemy and in fact, we are basically all in the same boat on this one, and I think to some extent the people in developing countries who also have corrupt goverments that would prefer they left to cleaning up their act - we have that in common. This isnt about race its about the extremely wealthy trying to against all odds, lock in their growing slice of a shrinking pie by pitting other group against one another.
All American workers will be framed as the privileged ones, trying to take back the long promised, long delayed pay back for globalization from the developing countries firms "who have earned it".