For centuries
you were either rich or poor.
You had lots of power or none.
Until the merchant class
developed.
They educated their children,
and the middle class
evolved.
Now a minuscule percent of the population
holds the majority of the wealth, and the middle class
is crumbling.
The rich fight to grab
more and more wealth,
more and more power.
They fight to destroy
public education
and the health system
with elitist ideas about
who deserves what.
Sharing is better
than hoarding.
Spreading wealth
makes society better for all.
Teach everyone.
Heal everyone.
Crime goes down.
Life improves for everyone.
The feudal system
is futile.
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Thanks
So true, and very well said. I’m re-reading Walden by Thoreau at the moment, and he’s saying much the same…150 years ago! How is it we’ve not yet figured it out? H xxx
Ever-widening separation of the classes. Society has its deeping wounds and festering scars that may never heal. The human condition to crave dominance leaves them blind to the trail of fatalities left far behind. Still, I see the greater good in humanity and live out my days with hope and the inspiration of the promise of all tomorrows.
One can only hope!
I fear the glory days are behind us, and dystopia awaits.
Tax them till it hurts. Especially on share options.
I don’t mind taxes at all. I think our taxes should be higher to cover the services government should be providing all citizens. I’m all for Scandinavian style socialism. And straight taxes: no deductions. Set amount. 35% across the board, say. I don’t approve of elitist entitlement. Rich pay the same. Corporations all pay the same.
Powerful poem. Powerful message. Sad to say the American Dream is only just that a dream. Only the rich, powerful and wealthy have access to better education, better opportunities, clean, safe affordable housing, etc…. Sad. I also wanted to share this quote and link.
I spoke of the heartbreak of political murder that has permanently marked me and my peers, but we have also been profoundly disappointed by politics’ failure to improve the lives of the average citizen. In 1969, the median salary for a male worker was $35,567 (in 2012 dollars). Today, it is $33,904. So for 44 years, while wages for the top 10% have continued to climb, most Americans have been caught in a “Great Stagnation,” bringing into question the whole purpose of the American capitalist economy (and, along the way, shattering our faith in the “American Dream”). The Reagan-era notion that what benefited the 1%—“the establishment”—would benefit everyone has by now been thoroughly discredited, yet it seems that we are still struggling to pick up the pieces after this failed experiment.
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I can’t imagine the betrayal that the average American feels. The idea the ‘if you worked hard enough’ you’d achieve the dream is just so much crap. So much climbing over people and damaging everyone. Short sighted.
Greed is a powerful foe. The thread that binds history together is human nature.
Depressing, isn’t it?
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This poem really resonates with me
very well written, so true…thanks for the post!
You’re welcome.
Yes! Thank you! So you have elitists bent on reinstating feudalism in Canada also? Dang! I was hoping to escape American classist bullcrap politics and take refuge in Canada one day, somewhere around Canmore…
Watch out for the drilling they’re planning to do in the National Park…
‘The Times They Are A Changing’ wrote Bob Dylan, those times are approaching; ‘the first one now will later be last’. The current system can’t, and won’t, last. 🙂
Sadly, I think the times are returning to a plutocracy.