No matter how Bernie adjusts his message, it won't be enough. Not ever.

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67. dr. king's point

bernie made this point to chuck todd, and i've made it here myself more than once; toward the end of his life, MLK recognized that the fundamental issue is really an economic one, and he was right. capitalists need at least one bottom rung race or whatever (think about it; it was the italians and the irish, etc.) to take care of two important features of their power-hoarding program. one, they need cheap labor; that's the obvious one. two, they also need to keep the pecking order alive so they can manipulate the general population more effectively to keep the cheap labor bottom rung in line (see one, above).

race itself is not what matters, and i mean that with all the double entendre and implication that is loaded into that word, 'matter.' capitalists do not care one bit which race or color or creed or gender fills these 2 roles for their purposes; they just need the purposes to be filled. never forget: to them, NO lives matter, at all; even the ones that produce their work and products are expendable and replaceable. but, here and now, black lives matter least because this currently fills their demands for their system to get them what they want.

this is very important to remember here: to the extend that the corporate world can get and keep the various factions of their machinery at odds with each other, the more control they can maintain over all of us. therefore, it is vital and incumbent upon us each and all to make and keep a united front as our TOP priority right now.

every revolution that ever failed has failed because of infighting. we canNOT let this happen.

so, may i humbly suggest first, that we all agree that it is painfully clear that there is a powerful movement afoot to drive home the very sick opinion that black lives matter least. we cannot deny this, and to say that all lives matter in response to that sentiment is to not just miss the point, but to dismiss it. we owe this much to all our brothers and sisters of color. period.

but second, that said, those brothers and sisters must also recognize that the problems they suffer will NOT go away if police just stop killing black people. i sure wish it were that simple, but it simply is not. this is where it is vitally important to acknowledge that we can only overcome these problems by getting at the root of them, which is economic. we have to stop getting played by the machinery of our rich overlords and level the playing field; only then will the racial issues fade away as irrelevant, because only then can we hope to be rid of this dog-eat-dog mentality capitalism promotes.

dr. king got this. bernie gets this better than anyone running, that is just unequivocally clear. only when we all get this will anything really start to change for the good, and for good.