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Susan T's avatar

I agree with everything you say. I find it sad that so many people, including some libertarians, think that anarchy means no government. Even sadder when libertarians consider themselves to be anarchists. Sad for me, anyway. I am so sick of wealth being equated with success. Really, extreme wealth is just piggishness. Not success at all. I was listening to a program about the spread of wild pigs in the US and now in Canada. They are really difficult to deal with. They are manipulative, smart, greedy and they reproduce at an alarming rate. Except for the reproduction part (and who even knows about that) wild pigs could be a prototype for libertarians. Maybe a bit hard on the wild pigs, but there it is.

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jamenta's avatar

Yeah for me - the class warfare is pretty much at the foundation of the rot within the US, and the level of wealth inequality now is worst than it has ever been historically.

The lawless pursuit of greed and the philosophy that an entire society can be healthy based on self-serving greed alone - has now, in my opinion led to its denouement. Out-of-control Militarism. All three branches of the US government corrupted by the fat 1% pigs that still want to cut taxes even more. RECORD I mean RECORD profits by corporations and Wallstreet even as ordinary Americans have to cut back on what they eat, and how often they fill their gas tanks up. It's sickening to live through the economic destruction of this country, and have to watch a BRAIN DEAD American president run for office again while another billionaire rich fuck who is just as gung-ho on mass murder in GAZA - as the rest of the corrupt goons in DC are - it's sickening to have to listen to the crass intellectual bullshit that government is the problem, that American workers are lazy - and that if you just cut taxes even more - it will all trickle down. I've been listening to this bullshit now all my life - along with how democratic and freedom loving the Israelis are. It's all 24/7 nonstop propaganda led by the most evil empire ever to exist on this planet.

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jamenta's avatar

The American Dream Isn't Dead... You Just Can't Afford It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeCbejSGEXU

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