Why does everything have to be so black & white? Left/Right, Dem/Repub, Liberal/Conservative, Capiatlist/Socialist, etc. If anything, history has taught us that the world is not black and white, but millions of subtle shades of gray.

Granted, you are right of course. There is more nuance and complexity than these simple extremes. And you’re right, we can throw the balance in some other direction when it doesn’t work so much.

However, I don’t think that it’s necessarily about the guardians of our economy, like some club of divine seers, making fine adjustments when things go wrong, saving us from our accumulated woe, and that we’ve only had, say, 8-16 years of things going wrong. It’s that the rich and the powerful, time and time again, must be dragged, kicking and screaming, away from their unjust, unbalanced, and self-serving practices, who ever after ungratefully denigrate progressive policies and government programs that make everyone richer anyway. Of course, these things don’t stop with just economic issues…

So yes, don’t paint yourself in a corner and assume standard, prescribed one-size-fits-all systems are going to fix things. But also understand that all we have to do to get injustice in the system is to let the billionaires run it. The old rhetoric, tax cuts for the rich to help the economy, that old chestnut? concho’s right – that’s just a big joke. The very top of the pyramid wants to stay there, they’re not interested in say, working for a living like most of us do. Don’t you dare disrupt their parasitic lifestyle. That’s right, I did it! I called ultra-rich people parasites. And if you can’t see why – it’ll be the death of you.

Someone today called me an agitator, I wonder why…