Carl,
Did you hear Donald K Johnston on Democracy Now the other morning? He talked
about what, specifically, Donald J Trump and his administration has actually
accomplished so far. Yes, it is certainly true that Obama left opportunities
for what Trump et al are doing. But what is happening now is related to how
Trump interacts with the Republican Party and how the Democratic Party responds
to all of it. There is a list of horrible repercussions. Example: Obama may
have been called, "The Deporter In Chief", but he didn't go after high profile
leaders of the Immigrant movement who have been living here and contributing to
our society for 30 years. He didn't pass the recent tax cutting bill or remove
regulations on payday lenders or set in place a new plan for how to conduct
warfare with nuclear weapons or ban Muslim immigrants from the US.
As for Capitalism and greed, when is the last time you visited a nursery
school? The whole point of nursery school is to, or used to be, how to teach
children to share and to play together peacefully. Why is this necessary?
Because left to themselves, little children tend to grab what they want, away
from other little children. These little children are not doing this because
they learned to be Capitalists in the cradle. They're doing it because greed is
as natural to human being as is generosity.
Miriam
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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2018 11:27 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Sunday morning ramble on the stormy, win blown
Olympic Peninsula
Tree branches are flying through the air, trees give up and crash to the forest
floor. It's a mild temperature, but it's a fierce storm.
So forget any outside work. It's a good day to reflect upon the Storms brewing
in our, "Other "Washington".
Although Donald Trump is the visible focal point, he is not the cause of the
current problems. The bottom line, to coin a phrase, is Greed Driven Corporate
Capitalism.
Really, would it matter if we had two Saints running for president, if they
ended up being controlled by the demands of the American Corporate Empire(ACE)?
And by the way, when in history did we have two well qualified candidates
running for the presidency? Certainly as far back as my own lifetime goes,
1935, both major candidates were indoctrinated in Capitalist values and
principles. Remember, FDR set about saving our American Oligarchy, when the
rank and file workers were coming close to revolution. Had Herbert Hoover
stayed for a second term we might well be living under a totally different form
of government today. So FDR was brilliant, and despite pressure from many of
the very Capitalists he was saving, he managed to steer the nation away from
out and out rebellion. But he left in place the same bosses as had been the
cause of our economic collapse. Greed!
Embedded deep within Capitalism is Greed. The need to enrich oneself through
the removal of the results of other peoples labor.
Capitalism is Greed! I repeat, Capitalism is Greed. There is no such thing as
"controlled Greed", nor is there such a thing as "controlled capitalism". Once
you establish a system that relies, for its successful operation, upon the
taking from another, you have established an inequality that can never promote
equal opportunity.
And if you can take a little from others, then as surely as the sun will rise
in the East, you will work to find ways of taking more.
Because your bottom line is always, Profit. Profit driven systems will blow
smoke in your noses by telling you all sorts of reasons they need to take the
actions they take, and how it is going to be so great for you...really! But
Profit is always the goal. And all their lofty reasons are nothing but Fog,
spread to confuse and distract you. And that brings us to the fact that this
is exactly the job of the Town Clown, Donald Trump. He is the Court Jester,
shucking and jiving to distract Americans from the Rape and Plunder that is
being conducted by his Owners, the White Landholders. The very descendants of
those very wise men who seized upon the opportunity to wrest power away from
King George and the British Empire. This is not to take away anything from the
Constitution. For its day and time, it was a brilliant piece of work. Too bad
our current Congress can't compromise as well as those long ago American
Pillars did. But even so, Profit, Capitalism and with it, Greed were woven
into the fabric of that Great Document.
And in this, the Great American Experience was doomed even as it began to
shoulder its way into the crushing powerful nation it became following World
War II.
As far fetched as some believe it to be, and as foreign to our current
thinking, until we are able to join hands and become a single People, and a
single Human Class, until then we will continue to stumble along attempting to
serve both Profit and People. People will always loose in that effort.
Carl Jarvis
PS. Whenever you hear Donald Trump bragging about himself, just begin humming
that old song that was so popular during the 50's..."Oh yes, I'm the Great
Pretender..."
CJ
