i think your opinions are, let's say, 'ill-informed' (e.g. 'china's ruling class is the 'problem'', 'venezuela is a prime example') and underestimate the sophistication of empire's propaganda machine. who benefits from the opnions you espouse? a more radical approach is needed, imo.
i think your opinions are, let's say, 'ill-informed' (e.g. 'china's ruling class is the 'problem'', 'venezuela is a prime example') and underestimate the sophistication of empire's propaganda machine. who benefits from the opnions you espouse? a more radical approach is needed, imo.
Who "benefits" from "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"???
What is Your Radical approach???
Just Who/Whom is under the influence of Who/Whom's propaganda??? Is The Question.
The U.S. government hasn't ever believed in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Look around you. Do you see it anywhere?
It Begins with You. Governments are a necessary evil At Best which is rare. I wish you well
i have a hunch that it always has been 'the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of the owning class'.
become a communist, just to see what happens. :-)
both of us were probably raised and educated under capital-ism.
I do not like the Borg, Comrade. I'm a Kulak, and armed. Proceed ....
Revealingly, you omitted this condition: you know, government and democracy as necessary to secure those rights:
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
The U.S. constitution has been a dead letter as far as the government is concerned, for a long time.