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To: ggersh who wrote (432495)	12/2/2017 6:19:03 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 436258

Agree

To: ggersh who wrote (432495)	12/3/2017 10:11:25 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 436258

<<Bottom line the R's and D's are two wings of the same party>> That was the bottom line well over 50 years ago when the so-called "Great Society" started the Vietnam war and got millions of people killed on both sides of the ledger, all for big Oil. And what did you learn from that? Obviously not too much. You ended up working (by your own admission) for some brokerage/financial firm) and then got dumped by the Wall Street machine and have lived a life of resentment and anger ever since. You were under the illusion you had a career. But like many you were merely a rental, a tool to be used, abused and dumped like garbage. I was going to socialist party meetings when I was 16/17 years old. And the talk was not about crying about the capitalist system, which you are quite good at. I went to a university (SUNY at Albany) in the early 70s where the philosophy and sociology departments were Marxist and we use to sit and discuss in sociology class the best professions and jobs to enter into in a late stage capitalist economy. The unanimous view was to become, as Marx said, a "petite bourgeoisie", be your own boss, self-employed in a good service business, with as little government or corporate interference as possible. We all knew that the worst place to seek employment was in a corporation, where one is used as a tool for the sake of profit. Workers always get fucked in a pure capitalist economy. There is nothing unusual about that. That's how the system operates. Yes, the Democrats do it also, but to a lesser degree than the Republicans do. None of the Democrats supported the tax cut bill. And neither did Hillary, Don't blame the system. Blame yourself for being naive, thinking you had a career with the financial establishment. All the signs were there well over 50 years ago.