Give all your money to billionaires!
Not saying that Cuba is a shining example without corruption. Just saying that the USA is an unequal, corrupt pile of excrement. The American people have been conned. It’s a system that works for the 1% and dumps 99%. The richest country in the world where everyone is working their arses off for billionaires.
Trump exemplifies all that is wrong with the place – an authoritarian conman!
A teacher has a class of 9 children.
They receive ten bars of chocolate.
The teacher takes 9 bars for themselves and divides the remaining bar among the 9 children.
The teacher distributes the chocolate so they all get a bar each.
The class work for the community to earn the money to buy 10 bars of chocolate. They share it equally.
It doesn’t surprise me in the least. The wealthy don’t like fairness. They own the media. They control investment and the money markets. It’s in their interests to undermine any attempt at having a fairer distribution of wealth. They like the Tories and low taxes, tax loopholes so they can continue their profiteering.
They certainly don’t want Labour to succeed. By withholding capital they can create failure.
Erdogan’s victory in Turkey confirms my increasing view that identity politics is now being weaponised by the Right in many countries as a divide and rule mechanism to get the poor and desperate to fight each other. People brutalised by capitalist economics are being persuaded to vote against their own interests and their own class by ‘culture wars’.
The demands of basic human rights of food, shelter, warmth and economic security for ALL should always come first. When the Left puts identity above economics, the Right uses it against us – and we start arguing with each other. It’s self defeating.
Mark Drakeford – who should be Labour leader – got it right when he said that there needs to be a ‘solidarity union’ in the U.K. to guarantee the building blocks of life to every citizen. That is a basic human right!
When capitalist governments talk of ‘human rights’ and ‘democracy’ they are always referring to the political sphere, not the economic one. You can starve in the street as long as you have the theoretical political right to demonstrate about your condition. (A right which is now being eroded anyway.) But without economic rights, political rights are mere window dressing.
Economic human rights and economic democracy have been the central planks of my political perspective ever since the 1970s and I still believe them to be the cornerstones of progressive politics. They are the base: the other stuff is the superstructure. Sort them out and everything else becomes easier.
Not my idea, but that of an old German bloke with a beard I still have a lot of time for.
Source of the chaos
Searching for the source of chaos
Is not a difficult task.
Look who’s sowing division
In his KKK mask.
Look who sacks anybody
Who disagrees with him.
Look who sulks petulantly,
Perpetually looks grim.
The harbinger of chaos
Can’t even read a book.
Is ignorant of science
And is nothing but a crook.
He won’t show us his tax returns
Or his Russian connections.
All he’s got inside his head
Is winning the elections.
He loves to have the power
And craves more wealth.
The only person he loves
Is the image of himself.
He’ll stir up the rioting
And condone the killers.
With snout in the trough
With all the other swillers.
The source of all the chaos
Is hiding in plain sight.
Pretending to have solutions
But never getting it right.
He feeds his loyal base
With cynical concessions.
While sneering at their loyalty
And feeding their obsessions.
The master of fake news
And conspiracy theory.
Tweeting long into the night
When other eyes are bleary.
Out on the golf course
In the midst of emergency.
Calling hoax, misinforming;
Not understanding urgency.
He does not care about people.
Has no ounce of compassion.
He’ll do anything for a vote.
The truth is on ration.
The architect of chaos
Is serving up the blame.
Passing the buck
Without an ounce of shame.
Opher – 3.9.2020
Trump has been actively inciting and dividing, lying and cheating, all his life. He thinks that’s the only way. He thinks that is what is meant by doing business.
He presents himself as something he isn’t – a successful businessman, a friend to the poor.
The gullible fall for it. They believe he’s fighting the alien lizards! That’s it, those lizards live out on the golf course!
