Except for the surprising advent of the current Catholic pope, we, in the west, do not elect nor elevate Gandhis, Buddhas, Mother Teresas, nor even Nelson Mandelas into positions of power. Often, we don’t even have them at the head of our churches. We pick those who have what we covet. We do not pick them for who they are. We fool ourselves to think that if we elevate them, they will elevate us in some sort of immaculate ascension that leaves us untarnished by the corrupting influences of the U.S. political machine we have created, where you either get ground up, or “fattened up and dirty.” These politics insist that you be rich, polarizing, out of touch, and that you secretly swear loyalty to your class, no matter the trappings of your public statements.
After one hundred years of these politics, a rigged system has been produced in this way. Power devolves to the conservative moguls who systematically rig the system against the working class, the individual who would stand against injustice, and the meek who do not inherit the earth – at least not here. That's true of our laws, of our courts, and of our institutions.
It’s not rigged for Hillary’s benefit. It’s rigged for the ruling classes’ collective benefit. She is just an incidental benefactor if, in fact, that is what occurred.
My statement, here, isn’t a call to class division, it’s a wake-up call to the middle class, the blue-collar worker, and the meek: You have more in common with immigrants, minorities, and incidentally, the Clintons, than you will ever have with Mr. Trump.
Give Mr. Trump four years and you will see more of your legal, civil, and institutional rights stripped away in the name of a few deceptive promises, but all to the benefit of Mr. Trump's colleagues – not you.
Loren M. Lambert © July 11, 2016
After one hundred years of these politics, a rigged system has been produced in this way. Power devolves to the conservative moguls who systematically rig the system against the working class, the individual who would stand against injustice, and the meek who do not inherit the earth – at least not here. That's true of our laws, of our courts, and of our institutions.
It’s not rigged for Hillary’s benefit. It’s rigged for the ruling classes’ collective benefit. She is just an incidental benefactor if, in fact, that is what occurred.
My statement, here, isn’t a call to class division, it’s a wake-up call to the middle class, the blue-collar worker, and the meek: You have more in common with immigrants, minorities, and incidentally, the Clintons, than you will ever have with Mr. Trump.
Give Mr. Trump four years and you will see more of your legal, civil, and institutional rights stripped away in the name of a few deceptive promises, but all to the benefit of Mr. Trump's colleagues – not you.
Loren M. Lambert © July 11, 2016
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