▲ | burnt-resistor 17 hours ago | |
Class traitor: no. Traitor to the idealistic notion of an egalitarian America: yes. To be fair, there are many, many traitors to American ideals these days. Pointing one out individually seems to omit all of the others. It's unreasonable to expect or demand famous, sheltered, isolated billionaires to be on the side of ordinary people because of how far removed they are from concerns ordinary, non-famous Americans who are relatively, nominally poorer than even during the imbalance in the the Gilded Age. Sometime about ~2002, I cannot prove it but I predicted (to myself), that because of long-standing economic and demographic trends were most like to: - -purchasing power of ordinary people - +inequality - +corruption - +poverty - +misery - +war, including large-scale, mostly conventional wars over resources - +large-scale movements of billions of people across continents to escape climate-change caused famines The last one hasn't yet happened, but is likely to happen within 20 years. Furthermore, first-world famines are now possible because of improper, unwise government regimes sabotaging themselves. |