first let me clear something up for you. YOu are incredibly biased to the point that an incredibly huge portion of the country just got slandered by your biased opinion. To state that "we" feel and not think reeks of the GOP meme you have been spoon fed in the echo chamber for years. Stop poisoning your mind like that, it is false, disingenuous and reflects no fore thought - no matter how deeply you 'think' it does- such massive degradation of the populace paints you as an ideologue of the worst sort and I would not like to think of you as such. Also the black inner city you mention was created by the massive population shift created by the enforcement of Jim Crow laws which is to say oppressive torture in the form of rape theft murder beatings denial of services denial of political voice and the right to live in quiet safe peace.
There are a lot of reply options but given the nature of the website let's look at the following examples. Pot is illegal due to the oppression of the plant and it's supporters due to the cabal's effort to 1) MAKE US FEAR IT AND 2) MAKE US FEAR USING IT. That cabal is composed of big Pharma, oil corps, cotton industrialists, the timber industry and the fertilizer industry. HUGE financial and political power houses that have laws written for their sake not yours. They can justify anything in their minds and get you to back them with such bon mots as "hey we are the job creators." Which is to say the heroin dealers are job creators too but they also have radically changed our legal and political and social landscape, just not as horrifically in regards to the scale that the cabal has achieved.
So the fiscal landscape would be different and the legal landscape as well ( jail populations and all it implies anyone?) As well let us be clear, the Milton Friedman fiscal policies are installed in part through tyranny, shocking the system as well as using shocks to the system overall to implement these policies. (Shock Doctrine -N Klein - an incredible and highly highly disturbing book that was written with great THOUGHT.)
That being said anytime one loads an adjective on a large population you run the risk of not only limiting ones precepts but as well ones options and dialogue. With that caveat Liberal would be in my opinion, one who puts the people first does not allow corporations the same right and legal definition of personhood and realizes the futility of destroying natural resources for the profit of the few as they sell it all off under the guise of the greater good. As for end game there cannot be one for the game does not end nor is it static. Governmental reach is important as a matter of checks and balances yet it's lack of reach is equally important and the nuances of each concern are as great and varied as the populace it at times contrives and at other times strives to serve. Equal taxation no write offs no corporate wellfare and fair labour practices are a good start. COMPLETE transparency in military spending. The military black budget alone is staggering and here is the kicker on that: in the list of need to know level of importance the president - any of them- is less than halfway up the list. Not an internet rumor my fellow american, a fact. AS for the middle class our labour laws were there for the protection of them after DECADES of near slavery conditions. The average textile worker was a woman and her life span averaged at 26 years. twenty six years my friend.The dust and terrible conditions overall killed thousands every fucking year and that went on till the thirties until strike occurred till people bled in the streets as the lapdogs of the wealthy the police shot beat and tortured thousands across this land of ours. Look to the massive exporting of our jobs via Trade policies and here is the underlying point in that reference up at the POTUS position DEm or GOP the political descriptives are there for your convenience only, they don't give a fuck about you or me. Clarence Thomas - THE deciding vote on Citizen United vs United States of America. When under consideration and in hearings for the SCJ position he was backed by a newly formed non profit that visited and wrote as well everyone who opposed him threatening a massive media campaign that was vile and poisonous to the core no prisoners taken. The name of that non profit? Citizen United the very same who also kicked in hundreds of thousands of dollars to C Thomas campaign chest and MILLIONS to his wife's PAC. GOP approved and you my good buddy defend him defacto in your ignorance as the corporate takeover of the USA GUTS THE MIDDLE CLASS
You speak of 50 million innocent dead. I speak of 50 million hard painful life altering choices that shattered women and men, relationships, families and that were never and will never be convenient. Let us be clear to, the use of devaluating language that you employ - again in the echo chamber- (sacrificed to the god of convenience) is the same technique used in military training to make it easier to kill the other humans portrayed as "the enemy " for what ever fiscal/ political machinations exist and are desired at the time. YOu do a massive disservice to all who have suffered, for you know not the pain, the risk nor the circumstances at hand be it incestual rape or any other horror.
YOu speak of immigration and it's illegalities. I speak of up to 97 million Native Americans dead, the rest left to this day to rot and suffer, forget the casinos they are few and far between and still it is a Faustian deal for the wreckage they leave behind to us all. Lord Jeffery Amherst celebrated , remembered, lauded. Yet it was he who came up the idea of small pox laden blankets distributed to the native masses near and far. Bio engineered genocide. Did Lord Jeffery Amherst have a fucking green card pal? Might does not make right. As for Mexicans and you bet you meant Mexicans, we moved the fucking border. Mexico went from northern California to northern Colorado down to Tex Arkana region, who is crossing illegally now?
THE GOP. Well it was not to bad for a while really it was great even but it isnot was it was anymore, highly conservative radicalised ideologues (Coulter, Bachman,Palin, etc) the rise of the religious right. (lol I love that one, oh Jebus come down and shoot the fuckers with us, amen.) yet us liberals and yes it is a descriptive not a pejorative are still here trying really trying to find sanity in what is going on as we are increasingly oppressed right along with the dumb fucks who are played like fools so they support their own oppressors at the loss of their own future.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- C.S. Lewis
Thanks for reaching out, I appreciate that.
