Inequity is the great sweetener of revolution tea. By example, Marie Antoinette’s infamous “let them eat cake” catches nicely the Elon Musk et al sentiment. In effect, you must suffer so I may enrich myself. He isn’t new. In the 80’s the movie Wall Street’s principal character (Gecko) proclaimed ‘greed is good.’ It was too true to be fun…
Inequity is the great sweetener of revolution tea. By example, Marie Antoinette’s infamous “let them eat cake” catches nicely the Elon Musk et al sentiment. In effect, you must suffer so I may enrich myself. He isn’t new. In the 80’s the movie Wall Street’s principal character (Gecko) proclaimed ‘greed is good.’ It was too true to be funny. As noted by Hartmann, our country was in the Reagan thrall. Some actually believed and still do the government was the enemy. The deep state? Hell, that is the bureaucracy winding the clock of governance. DOGE won’t fix it; rather, it will create governmental chaos. Too many believed the Reagan welfare queen BS. And, of course, we heard the great stalking horse: SOCIALISM! Thing is our country emerged from egalitarian reform: all are created equal. A good country looks out for all, not just the wealthy. As our Constitution so nicely puts its “to provide for the common Defense and General Welfare.”
The rich decry any friction on wealth accumulation. Pay equitable taxes for the benefits of our country, hell let the little guys suck it up. Pay for labor in an equitable manner reflecting profit? Good bye Unions, they are communists (SOCIALISTS!). Skilled and cheap labor abroad, you bet our companies went to China and other exotic locations. But now to sell it? Buy the GOP, they come cheap it seems. Need a good leader, get a con man. Need a message to explain a disappearing middle class? Blame it on the little brown people (you know the ones eating your pets). Blame it on welfare queens who cause the price of groceries to go up.
So, we are sipping our tea. Enjoy the MAGA moment America, because the hard reality of unfettered wealth and privilege is starting to wear thin.
The stated aims of the DOI and the Constitution must have a huge asterisk appended. Those men, they were all rich white men, espoused high ideals of equality, but we're clearly interested only in the equality of white rich men. Slaves, itinerant dirt farmers, tradesmen, and ALL women were not included in their concept of equality. To that extent, "originalist" rulings of the Courts make a great deal of sense. The actual fact is that "conservatives" now and revolutionaries then were TERRIFIED of true equality.
Inequity is the great sweetener of revolution tea. By example, Marie Antoinette’s infamous “let them eat cake” catches nicely the Elon Musk et al sentiment. In effect, you must suffer so I may enrich myself. He isn’t new. In the 80’s the movie Wall Street’s principal character (Gecko) proclaimed ‘greed is good.’ It was too true to be funny. As noted by Hartmann, our country was in the Reagan thrall. Some actually believed and still do the government was the enemy. The deep state? Hell, that is the bureaucracy winding the clock of governance. DOGE won’t fix it; rather, it will create governmental chaos. Too many believed the Reagan welfare queen BS. And, of course, we heard the great stalking horse: SOCIALISM! Thing is our country emerged from egalitarian reform: all are created equal. A good country looks out for all, not just the wealthy. As our Constitution so nicely puts its “to provide for the common Defense and General Welfare.”
The rich decry any friction on wealth accumulation. Pay equitable taxes for the benefits of our country, hell let the little guys suck it up. Pay for labor in an equitable manner reflecting profit? Good bye Unions, they are communists (SOCIALISTS!). Skilled and cheap labor abroad, you bet our companies went to China and other exotic locations. But now to sell it? Buy the GOP, they come cheap it seems. Need a good leader, get a con man. Need a message to explain a disappearing middle class? Blame it on the little brown people (you know the ones eating your pets). Blame it on welfare queens who cause the price of groceries to go up.
So, we are sipping our tea. Enjoy the MAGA moment America, because the hard reality of unfettered wealth and privilege is starting to wear thin.
The stated aims of the DOI and the Constitution must have a huge asterisk appended. Those men, they were all rich white men, espoused high ideals of equality, but we're clearly interested only in the equality of white rich men. Slaves, itinerant dirt farmers, tradesmen, and ALL women were not included in their concept of equality. To that extent, "originalist" rulings of the Courts make a great deal of sense. The actual fact is that "conservatives" now and revolutionaries then were TERRIFIED of true equality.