`Miriam,
I understand that the American Class System is far more fragmented
than there is space on this list to detail.
So I tend to over simplify and lump. Of course
the Ruling Class is comprised of many special interests, jockeying for
control. Likewise, a layer of high earning professionals, called the
Upper Class work tirelessly on behalf of one faction or another of the
Ruling Class. Beneath them are their faithful supporters, often call
upper middle class. They are mostly well paid for their talents.
Their talent is protecting and expanding the wealth of their corporate
bosses.
What we consider to be the Middle Class is a wide collection of
private, public and self employed people.
All of these divisions struggle to distance themselves from the lowly
working class, rather than joining together to change this Caste
System and replace it with a System that does not enslave the Masses
in order to increase the wealth and possessions of a few.
As it turns out, Capitalism and its ugly offspring, Corporate
Capitalism are morphing into a sophisticated form of bondage. The old
Tennessee Ernie Ford tune, I owe my Soul to the company store,
couldn't be more appropriate than today.
There are fairer Systems which could afford a larger portion of a
nation's people a higher standard of living. Capitalism worked well
for those already in power, but not so well for the rest of us.
But as long as we allow ourselves to be divided, our future will
continue to be held by a very few.
So, despite running the risk of offending a few, I will continue to
lump Americans into two Classes, the Ruling Class, and the rest of us.
If the "rest of us" could find common ground, we could be done with
the current ruling class. But that will not happen in my children's
lifetimes because too many have sold out their humanity for a few
pieces of gold.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/11/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
Basically, I agree. But I think that you are repeating some overstated
distorted information. There has been an upper middle class who are not the
ruling oligarchy, but who are certainly not the over worked, under paid
working class. They live in the suburbs and until very recently, they
worked
reasonable hours, had secure incomes, and lived comfortable lives with a
few
luxuries thrown in. Things are changing and I don't know that their lives
will continue. But they are the people who believed in the American Dream
because it worked for them. I've known a lot of these folks because they
live on Long Island. They or their parents, moved here from New York City.
They switched party affiliations from Democratic to Republican after they
got here. They watch a lot of TV and they voted for Trump. But they also
tend to vote Republican in other presidential elections. I'm not talking
about the ultra wealthy. It's a mistake to make these sweeping
generalizations because they're not accurate representations of the truth.
They are the talking points of the socialist parties which are as
inaccurate
as the talking points of the other political parties. It's all advertising.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020 8:36 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: censorship?
Just to put a fine point on it, we talk alot about our democracy, when we
are actually neither a democracy nor a Republic. The United States of
America is run by a Corporate Capitalistic Oligarch.
It is a nation of, by and for the Privileged few. Those few who do
benefit,
do so through the labor of an underpaid Working Class.
Control over this vast number of underpaid, overworked people is done with
a
mixture of misleading promises, confusion and bold lies.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/11/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On radio, the only place for dissent is Pacifica radio and perhaps,Military from which they sprang.
some individual public radio stations like the one where Robert
Scheer's program, Scheer Intelligence, is aired. And you have to go to
Sputnik or Rt to here dissenting Americans. Lee Camp and Chris Hedges
have programs on RT, a Russian TV network. They had to register as a
foreign agent in order to continue broadcasting. The internet is
censored by the private big tech companies which are all allied with the
Facebook allows the Atlanta Council to censor its content. The AtlantaChannels.
council is funded by NATO and if I remember correctly, Saudi Arabia or
some other such far eastern dictatorship.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020 10:58 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: censorship?
Of course the American Corporate Empire(ACE)presents its media as "The
Free Press"even as it goes about silencing the slightest opposition.
Over the years I have followed the "Left of Center" programs from
pillar to post, with the few that are left being confined to the Public
Commercial radio is reserved for product peddlers and music...and Rush
Limbaugh.
Our "Last Frontier" for personal opinions is the internet. And ACE is
nibbling away at that, too.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/11/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Loud and Clear is a news and information radio program and a podcast
which is broadcast on Sputnik News. Sputnik News is a Russian
sponsored state radio station, just like the BBC is a British state
sponsored radio broadcast system and NPR is an American state
sponsored radio broadcasting system. The two moderators on Loud and
Clear are Brian Becker and John Kariakou. Brian Becker is a member of
The Answer Coalition, a left leaning organization. John Kariakou is a
former CIA agent who blew the whistle on CIA torture and, for that
reason, was prosecuted and jailed. The people who appear on the
program are many of the same people whose articles I post like Max
Blumenthal and Aaron Mate. Richard Wolff, people from Code Pink,
other economists, an expert on nuclear energy, Kevin Gestola, and
many more whom I can't think of. There are also some people whom I
don't know, some who are rather right wing in outlook, and some from
other countries like Great Britain and China. The podcast suddenly
began becoming unavailable, not downloading, about 6 weeks ago. When
I finally discovered that the only people with whom to check were
Humanware, they checked and said that there was nothing that could be
done about it. It just isn't available. I'm not even bothering to
post this to the Victor Stream list because the last time Sputnik was
mentioned, there were a whole lot of responses about how everything
on it is Russian propaganda. So I'm just venting my frustration
here. I didn't listen every day, and I only listened to the segments
in which I was interested. But I resent that some entity somewhere is
making decisions about what I may hear.
Miriam
