Tex-s wrote:
You are aware, I'll assume, that framing everything the way you did in your last paragraph, "a struggle between those who have and those who have not" is the EXACT definition of Marxism? You are aware, i'll assume, that pegging individuals within a society as enemies due to circumstance invites only one origin for remedy? Government. And when government becomes sacrosanct, it's only a matter of time before the true tyrant arrives? The 'place' for all of your supposedly oppressed people is looking to advance their lives, the lives of their family, and community, and then their nation. It's no one's place to look to destroy what remains of our national fabric.
What's truly missing in America is a sense of gratitude: all of us that we are grotesquely wealthy by global standards, all of us that we have the best of sanitation, medicine, food, and luxuries, women not to be in several countries where genital mutilation is still the norm, gays for not being in some of those same places where they would simply be killed...... America is only a true failure if you compare it to a fairy tale, not to other real places. Can things be improved? Of course, but the last batch of 'improvement' had a witches brew of unintended side effects, like women effectively marrying government instead of fathers, like an entire sub-culture of dependency, like far too may people of minority status having their credentials brought into question because of lowered educational standards.....
With all of the history at our backs, modern America has a lot of roads that should not be chosen based on past experience. Sadly, as you noted, people more of my viewpoint tend to look to re-install arrangement seen by others as oppressive. However, inviting more legislation like that that decimated the black family is all I hear from the left. Educated citizens need to vote DC out of existence and then look at real solutions instead of looking at our reps as though they should be expected to solve anything. Let's insult the idiots at the top before we insult each other as idiots for listening to the DC idiots, the college indoctrination idiots, the media idiots, and the Hollywood idiots.
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