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Mick's avatar

You wanna eliminate poverty, eliminate wealth. You want to live within the means of the planet, enforce the strategy of doing less with much less. Capitalism is parasitism. You cannot salvage a sustainable system by continuing to burn through energy and make more shit. It just does not work that way, period. The D brand is the shadow of the R brand. Zero sum mentalities are losers, then, now and forever. Life has never been a game. No being ever wins. Statues and books and monuments do not breathe. Grandiosity about being some awesome animal has boxed us into this corner, the only corner left that has not been ground into bits, burned to a crisp or toxified to the point of cancerous failure. To pick some arbitrary 'side' in some pissing contest does nothing. Stop looking at life and the planet as something that we own and can master and understand. We cannot control even our most simple behaviors. De-growth, building down, slowing down, getting off the high-horse of massive ego, conceding that we humans have zero answers based upon this 4k year-old paradigm of usury, and learning to cooperate would be the only jump start I can get behind. I am old, like you, but I am not dead. There is as much plastic in the brain of a 30 year old as mine. All of us, like it or not, are staring into the maelstrom. Business as usual, regardless of tweaks, is futile.

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Shelley Byrne's avatar

You are spot on. Unfortunately, most hardcore Democratic voters don't understand this or neoliberalism. That is why they still think Obama was a great president when in fact he and Bill Clinton actually continued Reagan's neoliberal policies and got us where we are.

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