the rich are really the powerless

I "hate" (and I rarely use that word) the entire abusive system.  everyone feels powerless.  but the reality is we are very powerful.  what if we all stop working for one day.  it would be over for the so-called "rich"

the "rich" pit us, the so-called "middle class" against each other and against the "poor".  The reality is we are all the same.

"the health of the economy", "too big to fail", "free trade", "immigration reform". these are all code words.

the last two work together to punish small farmers. 

 

Worry for the "health of the economy" is unbelievable.  When unemployment rises, the so-called "health of the economy" improves.   Tell that to the hundreds of thousands who were surplussed or sent to the warehouse.  This dog-eat-dog attitude is manufactured by the media.  The comical thing is even the lowest little capitalist thinks he or she is buddy buddy with the true ruling class.  When the truth is: they don't know you from spit.  And less than spit is what you are worth to them.  They would not so much as lift an eyebrow to help you and if you are even the least bit of a nuisance, their henchman will cut your throat.

John Donne said it best 400 years ago and Martin Luther King quoted him:

Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God's universe is made; this is the way it is structured.

John Donne caught it years ago and placed it in graphic terms: "No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." And he goes on toward the end to say, "Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." We must see this, believe this, and live by it if we are to remain awake through a great revolution.

--Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution