As noted by billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and civic activist Nick Hanauer, who, together with Jeff Bezos, started Amazon.com. The socioeconomic sleight of hand performed by the rich, aided and abetted by government, shows that the top 1% have effectively taken a 50% haircut from the wages of every American worker over the past half century. This is the underlying source of the unsustainable and obscene wealth inequality we inherit today. Hanauer has gone on to become, some would say, a billionaire with a conscience after having had a number of successful business ventures.
His simple premise is that everything we are taught about economics is, in his words, “A pack of lies” and that if you use this flawed economic model as the foundation on which to build economic policy, the only possible end result is either a police state or a revolution. I believe he is absolutely right, and we are, as we speak, at that fork in the road. This is why we are beginning to see the rise of Democratic Socialism in response to what is fast becoming a police state. You only have to listen to the visceral response from the right to progressive candidates breaking through to understand that the battle lines in the upcoming revolution are already being drawn.
We can talk all day about the monsters in this regime and those that are bankrolling them, but they really don’t care. These are people who would, and are, burning this nation to the ground for personal gain. They have no social conscience; indeed, I doubt many of them have a conscience or a beating heart at all...continue here.
-- Martin McSweeney, TRUTH MATTERS
