If we do an analysis of the American political system to find out what the real problem is, it has to be income inequality and the attendant inequality of power between the rich and the middle class and poor. This can be substantiated by the fact that the United States is somewhere between 45th and 65th in the world in income inequality. I have read that would put us above Rwanda and below Uganda.
When people say generalities like we have to drain the swamp, or clean out Washington, or the establishment, who are they really talking about?
We know from thousands of years of history, that control of society is directly related to who has the power. It is always a simple matter of power. Kings, tribal chiefs, dictators and the rich. What made republics/democracies so revolutionary is that it was the first time in the history of humankind where societies felt that the people should be allowed to elect who governs them. Power to the people. The ancient Greeks first figured that out.
Well the people that have the power in the United States, and around the world for that matter, are mostly the rich. And the richer they are, the more power they have. In the United States they have the power to buy our Congress and influence the laws. That is why Wall Street and the banks get so many tax breaks. Wall Street has 10 lobbyists for every person in Congress. How many lobbyists do you think the middle class and poor have?
But what is more incredulous than anything is people who think that the rich, like Donald Trump, are going to share their wealth with the middle class and poor. When have they ever done that in history? Like never. Donald Trump has said that he thinks wages are too high in America, and he has spent his entire life busting unions and keeping wages as low as he possibly can. He is also against the minimum wage. And he uses foreign materials, sweatshops, to build his buildings.
If Trump is elected, he will do nothing to help the poor. The only ones that have helped the poor in the last hundred years have been the Democrats and that is a matter of history. |
