jcsbimp01

1) Capitalists can be divided in the following way: Those who have no problem whatsoever in parting a fool with their money, and those who do. But there is also a kind of meta-capitalist who believes government should not interfere with either of those two types of capitalist.

2) This kind of meta-capitalism makes sense to me but only insofar as it pretends that we have not figured out ways, through broadcast entertainment and even journalistic media and popular and societal culture to build bigger and better fools: folks ripe for the fleecing.

3) Just as religious & political rhetoric teamed since our colonial days to justify racist exploitation, American business, political, & religious culture have a long history of teaming up to perpetrate schemes on the less organized, the less sophisticated, the less powerful.

4) We are starting to come to a collective consciousness - it is being fought, since it is politically fraught - that government should protect the weak from the strong. Sadly, we also are conscious that some of the exploiters of the weak have - have always, in fact - governed.

5) We have such a man in the @WhiteHouse now: @realDonaldTrump. He is but the latest, most monstrous manifestation of the exploiters' plans for us, and they seem to strongly favor the @GOP, whose constituents are more favorable to expoitation as empire-building.

6) It is not that they are all evil, or that other parties' members are all innocent. But those who exploit play to their strengths, and today's current of manipulation flows in a Rightward direction, I fear, through cultural and religious channels.

7) I hope we grow more and more aware of the mind games being played on us, the ways in which the powerful cheat those with less power. (Knowledge is power, remember.) @FoxNews and religious manipulators like @700club and @TBN boost their signal. We must resist it.