CEO shooting shows how scales of justice have long been smashed and replaced with pounding and pecking of instant-take social media judge-and-jurying of a man's life.
Doug, the reality is that, as Warren Buffet said so well years ago, we have had a class war going on for decades, but it's only been fought by one side, the rich, and they have already won (for the forseeable future). Now class wars can be fought non violently, thru political revolution, such as the two presidential runs by Bernie Sanders, thru the electoral route, both of which were crushed by the Dem Party establishment. Or they can be fought violently, such as the French Revolution, with the gulliotines being the final stage of it. For decades now, the rich and corporations have only become less afraid of the masses and us peasants, while meanwhile, they have only consolidated their power over us, by buying almost all the politicians in DC, from both major parties.
As you say, the inequality has only been growing wider and the pot is boiling hot by now, with the lid being just about as ready to blow as it did in the late 1960s. I wish the ruling class and corporations would be willing, as they were back then, to make the kind of concessions to the masses that they need to make, for us to avoid a violent civil war here, but I really doubt it will happen that way. The only reason the ruling class made its concessions to the peasants in the 60s, which have been continually taken back since then, with regressive policies by both major parties, is because the non violent movements led by MLK and the peace movement, were balanced by violent movements like the Black Panthers and SDS/ Weathermen. That combo of both violent and non violent opposition, is why the ruling class allowed LBJ to pass his civil rights bills, along with his Great Society and War On Poverty programs. When I look at our situation today, we have had only the non violent protest for the last decades since the 70s, which have been duly ignored and ineffective.
I wish non violence still worked, like it did back in the 50s and 60s, but it doesn't anymore, since both major parties are unresponsive to it, and our corporate media also ignores and refuses to give fair, balanced and full coverage to the voices of those who protest, unlike the 50s and 60s, when most media was family-owned and practiced a much more fair and balanced form of responsible journalism. Notice how in all the coverage of the CEO's murder, not once do the corporate media ever interview any experts or writers from the left or anyone outside the corporate mainstream, to speak about the anger of the masses against health insurance companies? Could it be because they are afraid of the angry masses being characterized as rational and reasonable in their hatred of the CEO? I fear that violent attacks against our ruling class and corporations, are going to be the result of our voiceless protest movements against those two groups, even tho even those will probably be futile and brutally repressed, and will usually not impact the actual villains at the top of those organizations, but as MLK said, riots are the voice of the hopeless and ignored, and you sure can't argue that it doesn't apply just as much today, to how our system treats those groups of economically oppressed people.
Back in the 60s, the ruling class decided to cave and give the masses the concessions they were demanding, the same as during the Great Depression, rather than continue to fight a civil war, thru the fed government, against the violent protest groups. This time, I don't think they will, since their tools and methods of repression are much stronger now, with the militarized police forces, the anti terror laws like the Patriot Act, and the weapons now available to abuse even non violent protestors, and they now have the whole fed govt., including the SC, completely on their side.
Great read. Spot on.
Doug, the reality is that, as Warren Buffet said so well years ago, we have had a class war going on for decades, but it's only been fought by one side, the rich, and they have already won (for the forseeable future). Now class wars can be fought non violently, thru political revolution, such as the two presidential runs by Bernie Sanders, thru the electoral route, both of which were crushed by the Dem Party establishment. Or they can be fought violently, such as the French Revolution, with the gulliotines being the final stage of it. For decades now, the rich and corporations have only become less afraid of the masses and us peasants, while meanwhile, they have only consolidated their power over us, by buying almost all the politicians in DC, from both major parties.
As you say, the inequality has only been growing wider and the pot is boiling hot by now, with the lid being just about as ready to blow as it did in the late 1960s. I wish the ruling class and corporations would be willing, as they were back then, to make the kind of concessions to the masses that they need to make, for us to avoid a violent civil war here, but I really doubt it will happen that way. The only reason the ruling class made its concessions to the peasants in the 60s, which have been continually taken back since then, with regressive policies by both major parties, is because the non violent movements led by MLK and the peace movement, were balanced by violent movements like the Black Panthers and SDS/ Weathermen. That combo of both violent and non violent opposition, is why the ruling class allowed LBJ to pass his civil rights bills, along with his Great Society and War On Poverty programs. When I look at our situation today, we have had only the non violent protest for the last decades since the 70s, which have been duly ignored and ineffective.
I wish non violence still worked, like it did back in the 50s and 60s, but it doesn't anymore, since both major parties are unresponsive to it, and our corporate media also ignores and refuses to give fair, balanced and full coverage to the voices of those who protest, unlike the 50s and 60s, when most media was family-owned and practiced a much more fair and balanced form of responsible journalism. Notice how in all the coverage of the CEO's murder, not once do the corporate media ever interview any experts or writers from the left or anyone outside the corporate mainstream, to speak about the anger of the masses against health insurance companies? Could it be because they are afraid of the angry masses being characterized as rational and reasonable in their hatred of the CEO? I fear that violent attacks against our ruling class and corporations, are going to be the result of our voiceless protest movements against those two groups, even tho even those will probably be futile and brutally repressed, and will usually not impact the actual villains at the top of those organizations, but as MLK said, riots are the voice of the hopeless and ignored, and you sure can't argue that it doesn't apply just as much today, to how our system treats those groups of economically oppressed people.
Back in the 60s, the ruling class decided to cave and give the masses the concessions they were demanding, the same as during the Great Depression, rather than continue to fight a civil war, thru the fed government, against the violent protest groups. This time, I don't think they will, since their tools and methods of repression are much stronger now, with the militarized police forces, the anti terror laws like the Patriot Act, and the weapons now available to abuse even non violent protestors, and they now have the whole fed govt., including the SC, completely on their side.
👍Your last two sentences say it all! To me it is capitalism run amok!