Carl,
We are having a debate about semantics. You are insisting that I use the
words that you have designated, in order to describe the situation in which
we believe our country to be. I am not denying that there is an elite that
rules the country. I understand that regardless of someone's economic
status, he or she has little power to influence what our government does
unless he or she is part of the elite. What I don't agree with, is a refusal
to recognize that the population that is not part of the elite, is divided
according to economic status, education, lifestyle, ethnic and cultural
background, , and the values held by various groups. Americans who are not
members of the ruling elite, are not one indifferentiated clump of humanity.
People who have the same income, may have very different values, educational
levels, and lifestyles. The insistence on dividing people into the working
class and the bourgeoisie and whatever other class is included in a
particular economic or philosophical theory to which someone belongs,
insisting on those terms as the only acceptable ones, is as rigid and
pedantic as the insistence on categorizing people as the saved and the
damned by Evangelical Christians. It's like there are rules on this list
for which descriptive words are permitted and which ones are forbidden.
It's thought control to insist that there's no such thing as, "middle
class", because that term isn't used by people who belong to certain
political parties.
Miriam
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VENEZUELA DIALOGUE
Middle Class is an euphemism. It stands for subjugated.
For purposes of survival, there are only two classes, the Rulers and the
Ruled. The Rulers cannot rule without the support of a portion of those who
are Ruled.
Whether you are sleeping in a dumpster or in a mansion, if a portion of your
personal wealth is passed on to the Rulers, you are Ruled(owned).
While some of the Ruled live betgter, and many employe others to do their
work, they are still governed(kept in bondage)by a judicial system that is
established first and foremost to protect the Rulers and their interests.
Whether you are a service provider or own a manufacturing business, you are
governed by laws that have been set in place to benefit the Rulers, and only
incidentally protect you. So long as we stay in our places and make no
trouble, we are allowed to exist. Our prisons are full of the Ruled who
caused the Rulers to take action.
Look at January sixth. The fact is that it did not matter to the Rulers
whether the day ended with the nation under a democracy or a dictatorship.
Whatever the form of government, the Rulers will rule as long as they
continue to own the nation's wealth and own the military and the Courts.
We, the Ruled, have been suckered into supporting our present system.
Indeed, it goes back as far as Man's ability to keep records.
We allowed the Creation of an all wise, perfect God. When things go right
his existance is self evident. When He screws up we say He moves in
mysteerious ways. So what do you think we accept from our Rulers? When
things go wrong, we, the lowly Ruled, are blamed. And when the wealth of
the Ruled is being sucked up without a hitch, it is because the Rulers are
all wise and created superior.
In short, we, the Ruled, have the power to change this crazy system, but we
do not have the will to take the Rulers on.
We go to great lengths to avoid calling it like it is because we are just
smart enough to understand what will happen to us if we stand up on our hind
legs. Remember, our prisons are filled to overflowing with those whom the
Rulers found troublesome.
Carl Jarvis
