1/9 - There is a class war being waged - a war of intimidation - against America, & its roots are centuries old. It has turned deadly in recent years, with a worsened pandemic and a Capitol riot among deliberate attacks on us, but it also fuels the fight against Progressivism.
2/9 - Industrialists, corporatists, and the keepers of huge sums of inherited wealth are the ranks from which those super-powerful super-rich who are fighting this war of intimidation against the rest of us come. They use politicians, pundits, preachers, & psychological tactics.
3/9 - Chief among their aims is the avoidance of proportional taxation or any change in who gets to sit in the catbird seat in America. As I said, this is a class war. Many in the Investor Class, who wish to join the Super-Rich and stand any chance of doing so, fight for them.
4/9 - Some of this unfairness and money-corruption Kurt Vonnegut documented very well in fictional form, in "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater." Much social change on behalf of the Super-Rich instigators of this war of intimidation has happened since, almost all of it very bad.
5/9 - The existence of this war and the powers behind it is evidenced by the slow-walking of accountability in high places, and thus any real deterrence, for a Capitol riot contesting an election that was being certified, and for a deliberately mismanaged pandemic.
6/9 - Racism, sexism, and all kinds of systemic discrimination against "people not like us" have their roots in this war by those with plenty, their tactic being that it distracts from them hoarding most of society's cookies. "Look! That [censored] wants to steal YOUR cookie!"
7/9 - Fighting them is almost if not entirely pointless. They out-man, out-gun, out-maneuver, & out-money anybody opposing them. Mass media manufactures consent, by their design. (Aside: They'd love for you to think there's a conspiracy among the [censoreds] to run everything.
8/9 - Do all the keepers of obscene amounts of wealth fall into the ranks of these class war instigators? Of course not. But they also do not pretend that progressive political change and accountability for corporate corruption would not also threaten their own tax loopholes.
9/9 - I do not know of a solution. Kurt Vonnegut died moderately wealthy, but also profoundly unhappy, and it was not just clinical depression that drove that. He could see that much of the American Dream was a hypnotic one, made to preserve the super-wealthy's riches and power.
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