RE: Religious Liberty?
February 18, 2016 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2016 at 9:46 am by bennyboy.)
Well, that story sheds a lot of light on your own views; thank you for that.
The problem is that the downtrodden can't really stand up for themselves. Poor people need a Spartacus-- someone who has a foot in both worlds, and who knows how big business and finance works but wants to see it fall. There are a few candidates: Branson, maybe, or ones of Bill Gates' kids or something. At the very least, people from poor backgrounds who end up with worthy degrees from Harvard or whatever.
But unless the wealthy have either a strong positive or negative motivator, why would they change their behavior? Complaining about the environment won't even make their radar. What WOULD get their attention is if Occupy Wall Street involved molitovs and crowbars instead of drum circles. What WOULD get their attention is if Bernie Sanders became president. What WOULD get their attention would be a mass arrest of bankers, and maybe a couple of death sentences for the especially prickish ones.
Unless the poor and downtrodden can generate a legitimate threat to the financial or physical welfare of the rich, it might take a revolution to press the reset button on the society.
The problem is that the downtrodden can't really stand up for themselves. Poor people need a Spartacus-- someone who has a foot in both worlds, and who knows how big business and finance works but wants to see it fall. There are a few candidates: Branson, maybe, or ones of Bill Gates' kids or something. At the very least, people from poor backgrounds who end up with worthy degrees from Harvard or whatever.
But unless the wealthy have either a strong positive or negative motivator, why would they change their behavior? Complaining about the environment won't even make their radar. What WOULD get their attention is if Occupy Wall Street involved molitovs and crowbars instead of drum circles. What WOULD get their attention is if Bernie Sanders became president. What WOULD get their attention would be a mass arrest of bankers, and maybe a couple of death sentences for the especially prickish ones.
Unless the poor and downtrodden can generate a legitimate threat to the financial or physical welfare of the rich, it might take a revolution to press the reset button on the society.
