I look at the current electoral field and I see two teams — the elite class and the workers.
The elite class, a small, tight-knit group, is comprised of the very wealthiest people in America who use their wealth to garner political power. It works behind the scenes to make sure that philosophically like-minded candidates are elected to political office and that business-friendly legislation is enacted.
The primary business of the elite class is to protect its financial interests regardless of the cost to society or to the earth. The elite class speaks the language of democracy as a tool of propaganda. In fact, it is authoritarian to the core.
The workers slave their lives away without nannies, without expensive private boarding schools and, most importantly, without the time and energy needed to become fully-engaged citizens.
The elite class gets to do politics as the main meal. The workers get to do politics as a side dish. The elite class has all the most potent resources, all publicly funded, all highly technological weaponry. The workers have nothing but a dream called democracy and next month’s tax bill.
The elite class prefers its workers to be a little harried, a little exhausted. This makes it easier for the workers to be trampled over and kept in a subservient role in society. The elite class accomplishes this feat by keeping wages and benefits low and the prices of necessary consumer products high. After a while voting and politics in general is another world quite disconnected from the life of the people — hence, low voter turnout.
The elite class makes out like a banshee — raking in the moolah and keeping the competition for power — that is, organized workers in a weakened state.
The oppression of the people, the continuous fleecing of the people, is so sophisticated and so subtle, the surveillance so unobtrusive, that a person could go a lifetime without ever seeing it.
Ralph J. Dolan
Haydenville