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The Sameness of Difference
The Death Chasm Both American Parties Fell Into
If I’m supposed to follow Bernie Sanders’ advice, as he’s an Independent and not in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then I shouldn’t trust billionaires ever again. That’s sound advice, as that class is skilled at simultaneously talking from both sides of their mouth.
I like to think of it as I shouldn’t trust serial killers and billionaires as one group, having no empathy, and being intelligent, and the other is trained to have no empathy and is intelligent. While there’s a slight difference between the two, I’m certain that either of them, as politicians, is willing to stab me in the back, one literally and the other metaphorically. Either way isn’t good for my health.
Looking just at the Uber rich, these are a class of people who historically have controlled a country’s wealth through being born into it or seizing it in a violent and bloody revolution. The central government always controls the purse of the nation, the source of financial wealth.
We shouldn’t trust the super wealthy because of their outsized wealth and influence that comes from it. Their interests are aligned with the pursuit or maintenance of wealth. They reek of money. They know how to manage money, one argument goes, but it’s their money they are managing.
