Is This Going To Be High Noon for American Democracy: Trump vs Sanders?
The first two URL clips below can only be interpreted two ways: Either the stats are way off, and therefore Maher is a liar, or if the stats are right, what is going to happen to our society? As far as I can tell the stats are ok, and if so, when will something collapse, how fast, in what way? I don’t know how long these URL’s remain operative, so depending on when you read this they may or may not still work.
At first I have been amazed nothing much is happening even though 43% of our adult citizens don’t make enough money to be eligible to pay any income tax. Wow. In the past, such a widespread degree of poverty would have generated riots all over. Why do these people remain so calm about their fate? Some claim they these leeches earned their fate, let them burn at the stake metaphorically speaking. But the Trumphites of our country have one big thing going for them. In the past, these poor had little to do but sit at home and fume. They couldn’t afford to go anywhere, they couldn’t afford to entertain themselves, so they felt the full force of being poor. Today, if they can afford some food, and with food stamps they can, there awaits a full day of entertainment on internet type gadgets—the endless phone chats, chat rooms, computer games, movies, sports, pornography, chances to comment on endless articles, video clips, and computer friends with similar gripes about life to communicate with adnauseam. Where religion used to be the opiate of the poor, the internet has replaced it. Still with all this increased means of communication comes the ability, at some point, for all these 43% of our citizens to coordinate roving riots wherever the police are not—-and the police cannot be everywhere
Throughout history only once has the wealthy class been toppled without bloodshed (when bloodshed occurs the Have Not’s with nothing to lose always win over the Have’s with so much to protect). Teddy Roosevelt is the only one I can think of who saved the rich and benefitted the rest of society via steep progressive income taxes and steep inheritance taxes. For roughly 50 years now we have been sold the notion that the wealth from the wealthy trickles down on others. And for 50 years this had not happened at all. The ideal American way is to ‘earn’ your accumulated wealth, not inherit it. The real American way to to create a level playing field for all citizens and let the varied talents play out the game with the Golden Rule as the ethical basis of American culture.
The third URL will only amuse those who really feel the top 5% of the population really have an absurd amount of our country’s wealth. After all 90% is pretty high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCnovN35pVE
I guess this last URL you have to copy and paste to view.
I guess this last URL you have to copy and paste to view.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-maher-unloads-sick-culture-164917888.html
