The Haves and the Have-Nots
I met a professional investor today whom I asked for his prognostication about the U.S. economy. He replied that the only thing he’s sure of is the growing chasm between the rich and poor, a point to which we agreed.
We’re living through the dying days of free-market capitalism. Rich people have cracked the code to increasing their wealth without limit at the expense of everyone else on Earth. They own our congress, as evidenced by the congressional Republicans, who kowtow to Donald Trump and their billionaire donors.
In the United States, morality has increasingly ebbed away to the point that trying to live a life of honesty and decency has become a joke.
One may think that the working class would be getting tired of being ground into the pavement by corporate greed, but no, they regard people like us as woke, socialist losers, so any attempt to turn this around appears to be going nowhere.
As shown above, Bernie Sanders hasn’t lost hope.
The people in Northern Europe and other spots around the globe are miserable? Democratic socialism has been the driving force in making the people of the following countries the seven happiest on Earth (in order).
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What the boob at left is saying is partially true, in that only some people in the rest of the world are laughing at the United States.
It’s hard to understand how someone can be so apathetic that they sit out an election where what’s at stake is American democracy.
There are two funny aspects of what JD Vance says here:
That’s as it may be, but he’s a handsome devil.
We have hundreds of convicted criminals on the streets due to Trump’s pardons. We have a quagmire in Iran due to Trump’s pointless and illegal war. The United States is viewed internationally with a blend of pity, contempt, and ridicule.
These were some dark days in U.S. history, but they seem bright and shiny in comparison to today.
