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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1610053" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Rod,</p><p></p><p>This is not aimed at you specifically but you made a valid point worth considering.</p><p></p><p>Take these 2 parties, the very small minority that steals and destroys with the clearly larger majority who to us seems to just take it, live with it and accept as the way things are. How can they let such monsters run amuck and destroy their local mainstreet?</p><p></p><p>Now for a moment let's reframe the 2 parties into something we as working middle class and often mostly white people can relate too and see just how we react.</p><p></p><p>The small minority group of thieves and destroyers is Wall Street and it's global capitalism which stands in dark contrast to the concepts of mainstreet capitalism most of us would think in and want to operate economically in. It's side men and/or enablers to a huge degree IMO are Washington DC, The State Houses and quite often even the local powers that be who grant them an air of authority and legitimacy. The vast majority of us however just sit quietly by as these thieves and destroyers along with their partners run amuck up and down our mainstreets burning and pillaging as they go. We falsely accept that this is the way things are and even worse we accept these people as so-called "experts" and they are the only ones with the expertise for such things. In time however, mainstreet is left a hollowed out empty shell of itself not unlike the burned out neighborhoods some will become from the previous examples like Baltimore.</p><p></p><p>Now in both examples, the majority for the most part sit completely on the sidelines and just let it happen. Even to the point of some giving full allegiance (often a kind of blind allegiance) to the very forces that do this. In some cases they even believe such allegiance will in time quell the crisis but it only gets worse. More often than not the crisis was created in order for more burning and pillaging to occur as a proper response and we sit by and just let it happen.</p><p></p><p>Why do we judge those who sit on the sidelines in Baltimore and appear to do nothing as their streets are burned and pillaged (microcosm) while at the same time we all but do the same thing ourselves as our own mainstreets burn (macrocosm)? The middle class and mainstreet is dying, we are trapped in the false narrative that one political side as opposed to the other did it thus the other will save us and yet over the years both sides have in fact played their equal parts.</p><p></p><p>When I look at a Ferguson, a Baltimore, a Detroit even, I only see the rest of us and it's just a matter of time. And like a man told he's terminal, we just sit of death's door doing nothing but making it all that much easier for those who want to crush us.</p><p>The vultures are circling above and yet we are so trapped in our own fears we can even get up and walk away to something else.</p><p></p><p>jmo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1610053, member: 2189"] Rod, This is not aimed at you specifically but you made a valid point worth considering. Take these 2 parties, the very small minority that steals and destroys with the clearly larger majority who to us seems to just take it, live with it and accept as the way things are. How can they let such monsters run amuck and destroy their local mainstreet? Now for a moment let's reframe the 2 parties into something we as working middle class and often mostly white people can relate too and see just how we react. The small minority group of thieves and destroyers is Wall Street and it's global capitalism which stands in dark contrast to the concepts of mainstreet capitalism most of us would think in and want to operate economically in. It's side men and/or enablers to a huge degree IMO are Washington DC, The State Houses and quite often even the local powers that be who grant them an air of authority and legitimacy. The vast majority of us however just sit quietly by as these thieves and destroyers along with their partners run amuck up and down our mainstreets burning and pillaging as they go. We falsely accept that this is the way things are and even worse we accept these people as so-called "experts" and they are the only ones with the expertise for such things. In time however, mainstreet is left a hollowed out empty shell of itself not unlike the burned out neighborhoods some will become from the previous examples like Baltimore. Now in both examples, the majority for the most part sit completely on the sidelines and just let it happen. Even to the point of some giving full allegiance (often a kind of blind allegiance) to the very forces that do this. In some cases they even believe such allegiance will in time quell the crisis but it only gets worse. More often than not the crisis was created in order for more burning and pillaging to occur as a proper response and we sit by and just let it happen. Why do we judge those who sit on the sidelines in Baltimore and appear to do nothing as their streets are burned and pillaged (microcosm) while at the same time we all but do the same thing ourselves as our own mainstreets burn (macrocosm)? The middle class and mainstreet is dying, we are trapped in the false narrative that one political side as opposed to the other did it thus the other will save us and yet over the years both sides have in fact played their equal parts. When I look at a Ferguson, a Baltimore, a Detroit even, I only see the rest of us and it's just a matter of time. And like a man told he's terminal, we just sit of death's door doing nothing but making it all that much easier for those who want to crush us. The vultures are circling above and yet we are so trapped in our own fears we can even get up and walk away to something else. jmo [/QUOTE]
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