@Serendipper
Shit rolls downhill and money flows up. The middle class is capitalizing off the community, but not as much as the rich. I ran a small business for 10 years and the taxes were just too much for the work I did, but I did make quite a lot of profit from employees and I paid much more than minimum and it was under the table (so I paid their taxes at my higher rate). Small business deserves a break, but not let off the hook totally. I go by the axiom advanced by FDR that no business which depends for its existence on paying substandard wages has any right to continue in this country. If you have a business model that can't make a profit without slave wages, then it's a lousy business model and such inefficiencies shouldn't be supported by the community or even allowed to exist.
The middle class doesn't exploit us anywhere near as much the overclass, if at all.
They're just trying to get by and have a little extra for themselves.
They're just a step or two ahead of us in terms of wealth, the last thing they need is government making it harder on them by increasing wages, taxes, regulations and fixing prices.
A strong, vibrant middle class provides us with choices, creativity and entrepreneurship we wouldn't have if taxes and regs are too high and hard on them, and all business is monopolized by a handful of powerful multinationals.
Much of the working class aspire to be middle class, so some of them are reluctant to go after them.
Nearly half the country is middle class, so even if you don't like them, you need some of their votes.
As long as liberals neglect or threaten their livelihood, liberals will never consolidate power, it'll bring us more of this endless class warfare and teetering back/forth we have today, until our democracy is torn apart and both classes enslaved or civilization collapses.
This's why I believe both the liberals, and conservatives are controlled opposition to the 1 10th of 1%.
If liberals had any sense, or weren't controlled, they'd promise to drastically cut taxes and regs on the small business, while increasing them on big business, increase minimum wage for big business more than small business, and increase welfare for small business, while eliminating welfare for big business.
It's only through uniting the classes, as well as the sexes, races and so on against the multinationals that we can make genuine progress (harder to do when you have multiculturalism), as well as having a greener, more localized economy, based more on need instead of greed, but that doesn't interest the elite, they want us altogether in one giant farm, but divided as hell, so we're too busy squabbling over scraps to fight the real enemy.
I am anti-christian, but the problem is the minorities are more christian than the whites lol
It'll be interesting to see what happens when a majority of European citizens are Muslim, Canadians and Australians Chinese and Indian, and the majority of Americans Mexican, I wonder what these newcomers will do with our civilization, and us?
Not true? lol
Like I said, I think the problem is the white boomers. The latest Stephen Colbert show exemplified that:
Their policies discriminate against all whites, men and Christians, not just boomer whites, not that age based discrimination is anymore okay.
No, we could talk about religion: how bad it is lol. We just couldn't practice it (if it's banned, but I don't see that happening).
Some theist asked Christopher Hitchens "What is the source of evil?" Without hesitation he replied "Religion!" The audience burst out in laughter.
Religion isn't just belief in the Gods, and it isn't necessarily violent.
What else kept psychopaths in line all those years but fear of the Gods?
Religion is art, architecture, music, charity, community, some morals and values (some questionable).
While I am an agnostic, there are mysteries in this world, and while religions feign to know the answer to these mysteries, the idea of the supernatural imbues life with a sense of wonder and enchantment secular worldviews lack.
People are always going to find excuses to kill or oppress one another, we have more secular ideology for that now.
Studies have shown religious people, so long as they're not fanatical, tend to be healthier in all sorts of ways than irreligious.
And then where do we draw the line?
Religion is somewhat of an ambiguous concept, all kinds of activities can be construed as it and banned that have little or nothing to do with it.
But you were inquiring about the future. Trump was elected by the people "most offline"
https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/th ... finds.html
But those folks are moving into nursing homes and otherwise being prohibited from voting as time moves on. So if some future fascist fancies taking power, all that's needed is for someone to post a twitter meme that goes viral to foil his fantasy.
And when some new technology comes out, like androids, Millennials, who grew up with the internet but hardly interact with androids, will vote in the next conservative.
Yes, we're progressing. Once slavery was a thing and women couldn't vote and such, but we've moved on and former concerns are seen as ridiculous today.
By what metrics?
People are more overweight than ever, more drugged up, cancerous, diabetic, heart diseased, atomized, autistic, detached, overstressed, cities are noisy, crowded, polluted, we treat our animals like shit, we treat nature as our own collective toilet.
There's more political and economic monopolization than ever before.
Families and communities are broken.
A lot has changed since rome.
That's what Rome said about Egypt, Mesopotamia and Macedonia, they said a lot has changed since then.
I have a tough time imagining bernie throwing jews in ovens. Or Ocasio. Or Elizabeth Warren.
Bernie seems pretty level headed, Warren, so-so, Ocasio on the other hand scares me.
Would she put white liberals in ovens given the opportunity?
Probably not, but would she put fascists and Nazis in ovens if given the opportunity?
Of course, and thanks to the radicalization and racialization of liberals, so would millions of them.
But who're the Nazis?
Are they ultra-violent, thuggish skin heads?
Why no, anyone who wants to lower taxes for the middle class and small businesses, hold onto their freedom of speech, guns and stronger borders is a Nazi to her, or in other words, close to half the country.
Why would they do that?
Because individuals are selfish, and by extension demographics.
Why did whites and Arabs enslave Africans, why did some Africans enslave other Africans to sell to whites and Arabs?
People are tribal.
For whatever reasons, genetic, mimetic, whites tried to put their tribal memes and genes aside and embrace others, at least for now, but there's no guarantee others will do the same.
Liberals are philosophically amoral.
Trump: 'Why won't you build the wall'?
Pelosi: 'Because it's immoral'.