Bc they'll be fine either way. They're all millionaires who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes so it's ok for them. They don't know or understand the struggle of the working class and the poor. They donot work for or represent the working class people. They don't know the struggle.
And it's like that all the way down the line, people don't care as long as they are a rung above the next person, people care about protecting what they feel is theirs. What isn't talked about enough is that raising the standard of living of all of us raised the standard of living for all of us. Working people put money back in to circulation, the rich no not. It doesn't trickle down. The rich have done a great job brainwashing us all that life is a pie, where someone else's piece takes away from us, but it's the rich that are hoarding more than they can ever use, on the backs of the rest of us. At some level they do know, they just don't care.
Then people need to STOP electing them! But, alas, so many just don't care. Like my neighbor whose comment after the election was for them just to leave her alone (as in not being bothered).
They're selfish and greedy to be sure. But really it has to do with the foolish two party system and the corruption that it breeds. The years of selling out to corporate interests by gov and media. No body wanted to risk voting for a Ralf Nader, he was talking about this even before Bernie but he ran Green, trying to introduce a third party option. Many on the "left" got mad at him for taking votes from Gore, but he had the right idea all along; having to choose between two parties is one small step away from oligarchy (one party rule), what were dealing with now. People get too stuck in their ways and are afraid of change until it becomes a matter of survival. But this corruption was many years in the making. Citizens United was maybe the breaking point, and some pointed it out, just not the major media. Which is why it's good having all this, meidastouch and Substack. And good to having Bernie and there are plenty more. The ingredients for thwarting this madness and changing for the better are there. Hope it all comes together this time. It kind of has to.
Definitely we, the people, want to see people fighting as Bernie is!!! WHY do other representatives and senators not get this???
Bc they'll be fine either way. They're all millionaires who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes so it's ok for them. They don't know or understand the struggle of the working class and the poor. They donot work for or represent the working class people. They don't know the struggle.
And it's like that all the way down the line, people don't care as long as they are a rung above the next person, people care about protecting what they feel is theirs. What isn't talked about enough is that raising the standard of living of all of us raised the standard of living for all of us. Working people put money back in to circulation, the rich no not. It doesn't trickle down. The rich have done a great job brainwashing us all that life is a pie, where someone else's piece takes away from us, but it's the rich that are hoarding more than they can ever use, on the backs of the rest of us. At some level they do know, they just don't care.
Then people need to STOP electing them! But, alas, so many just don't care. Like my neighbor whose comment after the election was for them just to leave her alone (as in not being bothered).
They're selfish and greedy to be sure. But really it has to do with the foolish two party system and the corruption that it breeds. The years of selling out to corporate interests by gov and media. No body wanted to risk voting for a Ralf Nader, he was talking about this even before Bernie but he ran Green, trying to introduce a third party option. Many on the "left" got mad at him for taking votes from Gore, but he had the right idea all along; having to choose between two parties is one small step away from oligarchy (one party rule), what were dealing with now. People get too stuck in their ways and are afraid of change until it becomes a matter of survival. But this corruption was many years in the making. Citizens United was maybe the breaking point, and some pointed it out, just not the major media. Which is why it's good having all this, meidastouch and Substack. And good to having Bernie and there are plenty more. The ingredients for thwarting this madness and changing for the better are there. Hope it all comes together this time. It kind of has to.