Unacceptable September 15. 2004


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Slowly but surely over the past 25 years the gap between the rich and the poor has grown in the united states. I was aware of that "fact" just as I'm sure all of you are but what is troubling is that it's not just some slow social darwinism at work in a capitalistic democracy and the gap is far from slow growing. The United States of American is the most economically unequal nation in the industrialized world! This inequality is breaking our democracy and turning our country into a fascist state. There has been carefully crafted legislation over the past 25 (or more) years that has given money to corporations or the wealthiest in our country at the detriment of the middle or poor classes. The legislation that has been put in place looks more like a "fascist constitution" than it does a democratic constitution for the people. Did you know that a corporation is considered a person? Well it is, I can't wait until a corporation gets a vote in our democracy (though I'm sure they get votes on individual legislations with money).
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The reason I bring this up is I was surfing the PBS website and in particular the NOW with Bill Moyers program information. (Bill Moyers is such a great journalist, commentaryist?, philosopher, speaker I'm glad pbs carries his show) One of his programs was devoted to this class struggle when a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED) found that the United States was the most economically unequal industrialized nation. There is some good information on the pbs page: http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/income.html Even better are Bill Moyers comments.

The question now becomes... What can be done to stop the juggernaut that is fascist corporate america? How would Jesus react to the poor becoming more oppressed and poor as well as a ruling class of rich aristocracts imposing moral law upon the people? Brood of vipers anyone?

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David  Wednesday, September 15. 2004 @ 08:14
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The question now becomes... What can be done to come up with a better solution than the one currently in place? I'm not suggesting that there doesn't exist one; rather, that in such a complex world, I think we should overcome darkness with light instead of focusing directly on the darkness. It's a whole mindset. If we simply get rid of something we perceive as bad, that this nation has slowly grown into, what's to say that the result will not be even worse?
#1 Justin (Homepage) on 2004-09-15 08:55 (Reply)
I agree totally. Laws (programs) to stop injustice will not alone "solve the problem" only a change in vision will lead to a brighter tomorrow.

So should we support people that claim to legislate injustice out of our society or support people who have a new vision? ;-)
#2 David (Homepage) on 2004-09-15 09:50 (Reply)
It's one thing to tell everyone you have a new vision, it's another thing to actually have a new vision, that is logically consistent. *That's* what I'm looking for, the actual "new vision", and a discussion of it's implementation. I think that comes long before actually choosing who is best to perform the implementation. Lest we get "entrenched into an ideology [or candidope] with mindless faithfulness"
#3 Justin (Homepage) on 2004-09-15 10:29 (Reply)
Without a doubt my friend. Without a doubt.

Down with imperialism!
#4 David (Homepage) on 2004-09-15 10:34 (Reply)

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