"The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil" - An Open Invitation To Christian Conservatives
Be forewarned.
The following video clip infuriated me.
And now, hours after first seeing the clip, I stand by my introductory comments.
WATCH THIS!
Only the use of expletives comes close to expressimg the ungodly horror of what's taking place in these "United" States of Barbaria.
In the main, America’s ultrarich are despicable people.
Both those who are doing this…
… and those who are NOT screaming out, “Don’t Do This!”
We have finally arrived.
Under Trump and his "Cruelist Party”, we are now - truly - a Shithole Country.
And we're getting shittier with each passing day.
I urge you to watch this video clip of Rep. Jimmy Gomez describing what the despicable people who consider themselves "the deserving rich" are doing to degrade the lives of the poor.
They "justify" their malice by considering everyone else "the undeserving poor," everyone of them a n'er-do-well parasitic slacker who must pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, or -- by God! -- their lives WILL BE "nasty, short, and brutish."
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In related vein...
To contextualize America's epistemological-and-values collapse -- and the inter-related rise of malice, spite and cruelty -- I encourage you to check out the following clips, featuring David Brooks, whom I still think lets Trumpista conservatives "off the hook" by not urging them to "get a life."
How The Elite Rigged Society (And Why It's Falling Apart)
What Happened to American Conservatism? — with David Brooks and Scott Galloway
Even now, Brooks doesn't seem to realize -- perhaps because he's such an intellectual -- that people can "get a life" if they turn off the TV, and stop believing they can only "make it" through crime or getting lucky with the lottery.
Learn to play an instrument.
Join a church choir.
Make stain glass.
Watercolor.
Paint.
Sculpt.
Whittle.
Take a woodworking course at your local community college.
Join the military as soon as you graduate (or quit) high school.
And for Christ sake, set aside the porno for a moment, and read something!
Hang out at your public library for an hour or two a couple days each week.
How To Save "Conservative" "Christians" From Themselves: An Experiment In Reading About Notable Human Beings
"Getting a life" is not rocket science.
But!
"You" have to do something other than lounge around diddling the remote, swilling beer and popping opioids. (Blessedly, you do not need to attend one of America's elite universities to be a success, as David Brooks seems to suggest.)
"Proposal For Two Years Obligatory National Service"
Finally -- anticlimactic but necessary to complete this disquisition -- there is a fundamental truth well-hidden above-and-behind the glass ceiling that separates "The Ultra-Rich" from all us plebes.
Capitalism Is The Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation In America And In The World-- A Propellant Rendered Nearly Invisible By Plutocrats (And Now, Kakistocrats) Who "Divide And Conquer" Via The Idiocracy's Age-Old Manipulation Of Public Opinion
Capitalism: A 2023 Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts
"Park Avenue: Money, Power And The American Dream" Why 400 People Control Half The Wealth (Or, According To Oxfam, Just 8 Men Own As Much Wealth As Half The World)
Our problem is not that we don't know what to do. (Hell, Uruguay knows what to do!)
Our problem is that we are too degraded as a people -- primarily due to lack of education, instruction and winner-take-all Cowboy Capitalism to muster the political will to do it.
And it doesn't help that "the deplorables" want to be deplorable.
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Thanks for listening to Cassandra's Lament.
Tu amigo,
Alan
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