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
#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.
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
Divisiveness & disinformation are core to GOP strategy

Critical-thinking, well-educated, civic-minded people threaten GOP core value of their freedom to unfettered wealth & power

Equality of rights means loss & unfairness to the able evangelical who equate wealth with godliness
Democracies thriving require effective minimizing of violent insurrection, disinformation, divisiveness & corruption in governance

Access to truth/facts, voting & society support for individual autonomy is key to freedom for all, right to life, pursuit of happiness
Worth repeating: society support for individual autonomy is key to freedom for all, right to life(health safety), pursuit of happiness

Aiding others isn’t harm or loss to those not needing that aid when the goal is enabling everyone to live free—we’re an interdependent species
Tendencies are for everyone to equate a degree of laziness with less ability & less success

& to believe hard work & abilities fairly earn their wealth as if independent of the society & family they were born into

& to feel loss/unfairness if others are aided with pooled taxes
Also to think aid implies weakness or failure or insufficiency

& should be minimally meted to the least able

or conversely given to most likely/able to use it well

or that aid should be a personal choice of generosity if deemed worthy or kindness on whim

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More from @love2laugh4ever

12 Jul 20
“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

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
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
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25 Apr 20
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

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.
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.
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