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@pithypacky @Shoq @ThePlumLineGS Thank you so much — this is the first quality article I’ve read from that paper, tho I’m biased as it articulates my ideal of fairness very well.
What it doesn’t do is understand the problem. Why follows this.
Again thank you for your generosity.
What it doesn’t do is understand the problem. Why follows this.
Again thank you for your generosity.
@pithypacky @Shoq @ThePlumLineGS Fundamentally, GOP is about wealth disparity v racism & an elite class governance protects & expands its privilege & power via max wealth acquisition of wealthy. Flexibility of adding others who achieve wealth due to their talent, efforts etc.. exists but wealth is what matters.
@pithypacky @Shoq @ThePlumLineGS You need to understand what you’re fighting to effectively counter it.
GOP fear well educated, enabled voting public that can’t be manipulated into backing policies that use taxes to make those with wealth wealthier & firmly lock many into poverty or struggling to make ends meet
GOP fear well educated, enabled voting public that can’t be manipulated into backing policies that use taxes to make those with wealth wealthier & firmly lock many into poverty or struggling to make ends meet
Call it racism, misogyny, sexism, religious righteousness, some combination or just plain plutocracy — fundamentally, GOP are against equality.
It’s not new or news GOP are against a fully functional democracy.
#inners #maddow #deadlinewh
It’s not new or news GOP are against a fully functional democracy.
#inners #maddow #deadlinewh
#ToxicMasculinity which includes bullying & cruelty to keep others down in GOP hierarchy of value.
Unapologetic amorality born of core righteousness are fear based reaction to democracy & equality as it means loss of privilege/entitlement/freedom to unfettered wealth & power.
Unapologetic amorality born of core righteousness are fear based reaction to democracy & equality as it means loss of privilege/entitlement/freedom to unfettered wealth & power.
Democracy thriving requires we #MakeAmericaHumane
Reconciling our various spectrum of ability with equality of rights & dignity
Reconciling freedom with fairness, abandoning “might is right” for justice
Economy thriving = raising the standard of basic quality of life for all
Reconciling our various spectrum of ability with equality of rights & dignity
Reconciling freedom with fairness, abandoning “might is right” for justice
Economy thriving = raising the standard of basic quality of life for all
“For a few to be immortal, #ManyMustDie” movie #InTime
Same is true for a few 1000s to be multi-billionaires
#MakeAmericaHumane & better at #CriticalThinking
#COVID19 exposes we afford what we value
Same is true for a few 1000s to be multi-billionaires
#MakeAmericaHumane & better at #CriticalThinking
#COVID19 exposes we afford what we value
What’s our value? What’s the value of work?
Without discussing power, understanding money is meaningless.
Money is about trade of our contributions to living so we together, cooperatively survive. Sounds all so simple until we wonder about power.
Hierarchy v Democracy
Without discussing power, understanding money is meaningless.
Money is about trade of our contributions to living so we together, cooperatively survive. Sounds all so simple until we wonder about power.
Hierarchy v Democracy
We’ve tied money with power as though that’s justice & fairness & it’s not
Why not? Arbitrariness of worthiness of work v ownership
Economies require us all—workers & consumers—so when it thrives, why don’t we all? Not suggesting equal stuff, just equal equal viability—worth
Why not? Arbitrariness of worthiness of work v ownership
Economies require us all—workers & consumers—so when it thrives, why don’t we all? Not suggesting equal stuff, just equal equal viability—worth
Step back & ask what is money?
Biggest threat to wealthy is exposing worth is a malleable human invention
@Teri_Kanefield nails it—democracy vs hierarchy
Declaration of Independence’s equal worth clashes with our innate differences
Biggest threat to wealthy is exposing worth is a malleable human invention
@Teri_Kanefield nails it—democracy vs hierarchy
Declaration of Independence’s equal worth clashes with our innate differences
To what extent does worth lie in our humane treatment of others?
In our abilities, activities in context of others?
In our accumulation of wealth through our exchanges?
Worth & worthiness & our tenuous clutching to our own value frames freedom & humane choices or lack of them.
In our abilities, activities in context of others?
In our accumulation of wealth through our exchanges?
Worth & worthiness & our tenuous clutching to our own value frames freedom & humane choices or lack of them.
What’s likely driving the fervor to restart the economy at the expense of others lives is a fear that the longer we continue relying on essential workers previously labeled “menial” & “low value” we openly expose the lie that wealth is worth.
That we afford what we value.
That we afford what we value.
