Reply #11: We definitely need a revolution.

[dotymed]

The non-violent approach always seems to get more accomplished. In order to do that we have to educate and mobilize people to have millions of impoverished and disenfranchised people demonstrate and demand wealth redistribution and a return to a real progressive income tax system. We spend more than 15 times on "defense"(my ass) than all of the other countries in the world. How could any rational person not realize that our citizens are more important than their empire? To top it all off, the wealthiest people in our country receive Social Security while the needy are forced to take cuts. The billionaires scoff at the meager SS checks they get, but they sure as hell cash them while the needy starve.Our current capitalistic society, with the largest income disparity of the "top 20 countries", is just Feudalism. That has been around since the beginning when "they" determined that "might makes right." The citizens of the other "civilized" nations put an end to this long ago and up until the last 4 decades, we had a workable version (not half as good as the other countries)of civilization. In the 1970's, the top tax rate was 75%, now it is 35% and most corporations do not pay anything at all. My God, let's unite and bring this oligarchy to its senses. We are not chattel, yet really we are now. Poor peasant insurance? My God how blatant does it have to be before people turn the propaganda machines off and think for themselves? We can get jobs back for our people, if we just legislate it and punish the profiteers. Look at France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Canada..etc.. They have good jobs (not a service industry economy) strong unions and great universal health care (non-profit of course). We are the only ones who can do it. Or we can keep being serfs and getting less while the elite get it all. Remember the old 1970's era poster, with two vultures on a wire? The caption was "Fuck this, I'm gonna kill something." That's a pretty damned good message.