Is the Reason Fascism Is Taking Over the World More Frightening Than Fascism Itself?
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- Fascism is on the rise around the world but the scary part isn’t the fascism… Thom Hartmann reveals the frightening phenomenon that turned fascism into a harbinger for the end of the world.
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It's called corporate imperialism
"Everything the Soviets told us about communism was a lie. Unfortunately everything they told us about capitalism was true."
Capitalism, communism and socialism are all economic ideologies whose only real difference is who owns and benefits from the means of production. They all agree that someone or something owns the means of production.
The means of production is you and me. Labor is the means of production.
We got scammed, America was taken over by the capitalists in the early part of the twentieth century. Prior to the American was a free and open economy where you were free to operate your business and conduct your affairs according to your own economic ideology, rather than that of the capitalists.
... these ideologies grappled with how to structure an industrialized economy but fail miserably in a service and information economy like ours.
@@PhilLesh69Unless you were Black, Native, Hispanic, or the wrong kind of immigrant.
Fascism is very lucrative for big business.
locking up your political opposition on Trumped up charges it the hallmark of a fascist dictatorship, we need to vote these fascists out in November before they can become too powerful.
Capitalism and fascism are very linked...
@@ZER0-- in fascism the government runs your business and that's socialism. read up on Mussolini, same as the National "socialist" party in Germany
Because of war? Or what? I don't understand.
@@crystalfullerton3908 Back in school, I saw fascism described as “capitalism without democracy.” Political uber-partisanship and corruption endanger democracy. So does extreme propaganda.
There's 55 corporations that pay zero taxes DirecTV is one of them
They need to be forced into democratic cooperative model where workers operate and own the business. No more surplus labor for the execs. This will destroy fascism and imperialism.
George Carlin once said on "Politically Incorrect", ""You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities and fraternities. They're on the same boards of directors. They're in the same country clubs. They have like interests. They don't need to call a meeting. They know what's good for them, and they're getting it."
From the video "Corporations own the media." As technological progress has created wealth over the past century and a half,
(1) pop culture has been converted to a technological product and (2) people have more time to immerse themselves in the entertaining aspects of pop culture, thus (3) pop culture has been controlled by those who control the technological product, and pop cultural has an ever-increasing influences on who we think we are supposed to be. The infotainment technological product has evolved as if ruled by the principles described by Darwin, adapting its form to enhance its well being, spreading messages and memes that influence us to act as self-satisfying pleasure machines that need to optimize (ie maximize) their consumption of technological products that can be cheaply produced and sold at high profit by those who thrive as the product's acceptance and sales volume rise. This is now a hedonic explosion that becomes more and more absurd, and any injection of common sense into the system threatens the well-being of wealth. The system adapts to prevent this, steering us toward totalitarian abolition of common sense. Fortunately, the hedonic explosion has made its most powerful advocates the dumbest, so we've still got a slim chance of stopping them. Get to work.
Spot on mate.
@@lucasmembrane4763 I agree. This is a logical process. People work on an emotional process. They just need someone to look down on. They just want to feel better about themselves, their lives. The hedonistic life gives more time to devote to push others down to lift themselves up. They final result is that inorder to feel powerful they victimize others. It is not the only way to have self confidence and self value but it is the weak man's vision of power.
End stage capitalism.
Immigration, wealth/income inequality, and public corruption are the three biggest drivers of right-wing nationalism.
which is silly because the right’s policies benefit the rich, therefore exacerbating wealth inequality.
Its a Fools errand.
And what is driving the inequity? Socialism? Or the right wing / corporate economy?? I don’t think the workers are the ones creating wealth inequity… they organizations feeding the political dynamics are the ones who have all ready proven to support the enslaving of workers for bigger corporate profits and more inequity. How does one compete with the lies of all the ruling class?
You are full of shit
uncontrolled immigration and the destruction of the middle class are exactly what will drive the right wing victories this year. here and in Europe.
IT S ALL ABOUT MONEY MY FRIEND ! GREED !
Religion is a useful tool
Always has been. People are stupid and easily manipulated by those in power and religion is a tool of power.
Must look even deeper...
Religion is a mental disorder.
… for DICKtators.
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So is Trump.
Simple answer:
Billionaires & white fear.🤨
Another factor is that all the WWII veterans are pretty much gone now.
As long as those guys were around, bringing back fascism would not have been easy.
THEY are the ones, who always voted in all those right wingers, and now we are stuck with them, because half the population grew up with their crap propaganda hammered into them by the vets, when they had kids!
Reagan really started this mess, and he was elected largely by those vets, who were still alive and well in the 80s.
A LOT of them actually wanted to go with Patton, and march with the Nazi army against the USSR right after the German surrender.
Unfortunately a lot of those surviving WWII veterans are MAGA idiots.
We just can't let that happen. This year is the 80% anniversary of D Day when brave, courageous young Americans knowing the odds of survival stormed the beaches of Normandy, scaled the walls, parachuted despite gunfire directed at them. So, pray we don't let them have died in vain.
Sorry, you've got it completely backwards.
The brave American Soldiers fought against the real fascists, the Politicians who would censor free speech, (the Democrats) and against Politicians who would try to jail their Political opposition (the Democrats).
When are you going to realize the truth?
YOU are the bad guys.
Good comment.
They fought against EVERYTHING the Democrats are NOW doing.
Suppression of free speech, persecution of Political opposition, NONE of them would want this, they fought for good NOT evil.
"pray" - > do nothing but head in the sand. It is a very different situation, when the 'enemy' is inside the nation.
Praying is pretending to do something while actually doing nothing.
Make the world safe again! SPREAD THE WORD! Vote blue, and be sure to call, write, or email your representative and demand that the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact gets passed in your state NOW!
Yeah vote Blue, who have been proven to censor your speech, and have tried to jali their opposition political Candidates.
Go blue, the REAL Fascists.
The same thing happens every time the wealth gap gets really lopsided.
Ronald Reagan hater of regular people
Simple answer. Too much sport and tv, not enough education
Keep the little folks fighting each other over crumbs, and you can make off with the whole loaf without them even noticing.
And if someone does happen to look up, you can say, "look out! The -blank- people are coming to take your crumb!
Cripes! Doesn't anyone read Machiavelli anymore?
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." --Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964
@@mikecaetano I tried to write "blank" people, to mean pretty much any out group.
For some reason, CZcams put a horizontal line through it, so it looks like I wrote "black" people, but it's the same idea.
And someone please tell me why do you think that if the United States becomes fascist that wealth income inequality is going to change and get better for the average person ?
They'll fix immigration by shutting down the borders but then who are they going to hire to work on the farms and in the fields which are jobs that Americans don't want to do?
If we could just elect people to Congress that actually had a brain and could think then we might be able to fix immigration instead of just locking the borders
Americans will do those jobs because they will be left with no choice.
It can be fixed there is a bill sitting in congress waitingvti be voted on but Republicans decided it was more important to please Trump and not pass it so he could use the issue in his campaign. Disgusting how they play with people's lives for their own personal gain .
Vote all these heartless greedy nihilistic people out of government.
It's a bit dated now, but the film "A Day Without A Mexican" addressed that.
There's no evidence that the US is going to become 'Fascist', stop drinking the kool aid.
There's no evidence that anyone is going to 'fix immigration' by 'shutting down the borders', where do you get that crap from?
NO ONE is advocating 'locking the borders' !!!!
Can you make the distinction between ILLEGAL immigration and legal immigration ?
If only we could have Voters who have some grasp of reality, sheesh.
Your average brown shirt has been lied to, and they have bought it.
Corporations struck gold when they realised they can tell people not to trust their govermets and that people will belive them and act on it.
Like the worlds fair all over again...
Corporate greed + racism + bigotry + ignorance + superstition = fascism. There are some other factors as well.
Neoliberalism is the root cause
France seems like they're headed to the right too...
But its not facism as its not 1930s facism anymore no military parades in the streets
@@carter7944 …yet
France and European countries are not far right and also not going there. Some want to move from the left to the middle. Many Europeans just want stricter immigration policies.
Yeah, the French people don't like having Teachers being decapitated for showing cartoons, or being run down en masse by trucks while enjoying Festivals etc., funny how you people don't seem to understand that.
@@MissRed92837The extreme right has made significant gains in the EU. What are you talking about?
With 'migration', the fascists stir up fear - they have no solutions.
I love listening to you. You are 100% correct. And it’s scary. People have no idea how bad life is under a dictatorship. People need to learn history so as to not repeat it.
We are officially living in an Orwellian world. At 73, I have just finished reading Animal Farm and 1984, both written 75 years ago. Idyocracy is also in full swing. We are barreling into Soylent Green and Don't Look Up.
People not reading history books.
whenever there is a rise in inflation the extremes of BOTH parties seem to ramp up their rhetoric what we are seeing is the result of corporate greed on a global level never seen before ,,,, Not going to end well
Check the corporate "consultants'. You will see the same consulting firms advising everone. Corporations, governments, media companies, and wealthy individuals all use the same small group of messaging and policy consultants.
This caller is preaching truth!
They're also anti-Black!
And yet, Trump's numbers are going up with Black males. What's up with that?
@ 1:30 - 'Maybe I should have tried harder, pushed further..' That level of self honesty is in scant supply, currently.
@ 4:35 ( or so) Ghettoization has served every fascist cause since forever, by equating the squalor of people forced into that condition as laziness and criminality.
@ end - 'See the stranger, fear the stranger, hate the stranger, kill the stranger'. This has been the mantra of all conservative organizations as far back as the notion runs. Not in so many words, of course; 'marginalization' and 'fringe people' work so much better into the narrative. When corporations can assume the rights of an individual, but can be held to none of the consequences, what do you expect? And, yes, Citizens United, I'm looking right at you.
Trump would control all media and anything negative about him would be covered up🤣
As to what we already got in dnc owning the media
Like the socialist Democrats right now?
Musta I think I hear Putin calling you.
Have you totally lost all grasp of reality??
The 'Twitter files' PROVED that the Democrats did exactly what you are claiming Trump would do, without any evidence.
More like he wanted to make sure you were spreading the lies he pays you to peddle.
Those with the most capital hold the most power, this has been so through out history. Everytime there was an uprising, this was pressed down.
The French revolution got rid of the mornarchy, but that vaccuum was refilled with others. High in capital; it be wealth & ownerships, it be social and or political. Who historically got blamed, for the broken-ness of a society? The poor, the sick, the minorities; in short: The Marginalized.
And in the beginning this power was based on physical and strategical dominance, and our human nature; to freeze, flight/fight or fawn.
If freezing (or ignoring) doesn't work, if you can't outrun them or flee, you can't fight them, the next survival instinct to kick in is fawning.
We fawn the rich! And this has been set up this way since .... so far back it hardly even matters.
We give the beautiful and strong the power, and those we preceive to be more intelligent (knowing) then ourselves, while still alining with our biasses.
Our human psychology and how it can be exploited and manipulated has been tried and tested, for over half a century now. Tweeked, refined and digitalized for as far as possible at the current state of the moment.
Fascism is old, very old.... and it can be good, and it can be negative.... in the basics it is very simple truthfull logic. You might be able to break one twig, maybe even a couple more together. But a bundle of twigs.... all the sudden isn't so easy to break. Unity, is the basic idea. I am Spartacus.
Now with the most rich and powerful on this globe being connected and united in ways never possible before in the past, and them also controlling most if not all aspects of our lives.
And the people getting louder and more angry, the temperatures are heating in all types of climates; nature, social, political, economical - you name it.
You have 3 options; You plug out, you go with the flow, you jump in head first to stay ahead.
They don't need all us human labor forces anymore, not in the same capacity as they once did.
Western world pre 9/11 vs the Western world post 9/11.
The wars, and the influx of migrants and refugees.
The "war on terrorism"
etc.
Capitalism, communism and socialism are all *economic ideologies whose only real difference is who owns and benefits **_from the means of production._* They all agree that someone or something *_owns_* the means of production.
The means of production is you and me. *_Labor_* is the means of production.
We got scammed, America was taken over by the capitalists in the early part of the twentieth century. Prior to the American was a free and open economy where you were free to operate your business and conduct your affairs according to your own economic ideology, rather than that of the capitalists.
... these ideologies grappled with how to structure an industrialized economy but fail miserably in a service and information economy like ours.
@@PhilLesh69 Never the less... capitalism is older than socialism and communism.
Depending on how we look at it, ancient tribes that lived of the lands and their own labor ofcourse could be seen as socialistic or communistic. So the birth of civilization probably was one of the stepping stones to capitalism, and creating capital cities/centers. The sponges that suck up the wealth from the surrounding area's.
Romans 13 says it all.
You know there are two causes 1) the growth of inequality, 2) floods of poor people into counties that had plenty of jobs before!!!
It's been a running model of the arian nation. It's not new. It's been waiting on the base education to be what it is now
Exactly! But America has a chance if it stops fighting with each other and turns it's attention towards the dictators by rejecting their model. All of them around the world hate our guts as a country because we influence the idea of equality for all. And it is indeed a powerful idea and a better one that we get along.
They keep us divided with Aryan talking points because they know if we keep our country a democracy, the world has a chance to wake up. AMERICANS must gatekeep this idea over everything else when we are being attacked from outside and within to send the message that it won't and will never happen here. That message starts in NOV
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Fascism is not ‘taking over.’ They wish. 🇺🇸💙
It's the fact that we're overpopulated there is an over supply of people to work. Capitalism is a take all you can. But billionaire's love socialism as long as it's for them and they don't have to pay into it.
'Social welfare' in NOT 'Socialism'! Socialism is the collective ownership of all property including the means of production and Communism is when the 'State' has 'withered away'.
@@MichaelRogers-et8dqthank you. It's really annoying when people call everyone who disagrees with them a communist.
Until we recognize the fundamental spiritual untruth that underlies all the fear, unrest & dissension in the world, we will never be able to effectively bring relief to all its inhabitants. No one seems to be looking deeply enough, so the root of the problem is never addressed.
Truth is, has been and always will be, what the facts are. What exactly is this "Spiritual untruth" you claimed? What are the facts of its existence?
People are survivalist and greedy ones at that. Many go far beyond their needs .It has become fashionable to over indulge in resources. The average American home in the 1960s was 700 square. Maybe 1 tv black / white. 1 telephone. 1 car.
Today. Average home is 2000sq ft. 3TVs , everyone that can drive has a car. And everyone has their own phone. And yet people are angry about how bad things are. People are never satisfied and it's never enough.
Those that are underprivileged immigrate to themselves countries with the greatest wealth because the countries they see as wealthy stole all these people's resources because many are run by fascist or dictators that sellout to these greedy multinational corporations. Cause anger and civil war.
It's the result of years of groundwork by Russia. Mexico has grown very close to Russia. The current president is a result of the same effort Russia put into getting Trump in office in 2016. Brazil. Venezuela. Brexit. An attempt in France that didn't work the first time. But I understand a second attempt is underway. Decades of groundwork by Russia.
The karmic boomerang for all those other countries our CIA worked their magic to overthrow= un-American leadership in central America.
The karmic boomerang for all those countries that our CIA tried to overthrow who were not user friendly to American interests.
I was surprised by Mexico not supporting Ukraine this weekend in Europe
@@ggjohnson5754 AMLO (current pres) is cozied right up to Russia. I've been waiting for Russian warships to show up at the ports of Veracruz and Acapulco. And he has the same aspirations as Trump.
@@RoscoeJames when is he out? Or will he pull a trump and not leave? Considering Russia is hanging out near cuba should be startling.
At the heart of it all,perhaps it is because we have all always been "tribal" in our own way.Then it's not a big leap...
And trying to turn human beings into something other than "tribal" is a fools errand because, in the end, this is how we are hard wired. I've believed that multi-culturalism in America was always ultimately doomed for this very reason.
@@americasevilgenius Appreciate the comment(s).I guess that’s why this “experiment” was/is so radical and wonderful at the same time.Hope we can keep it alive for as long as possible.
It's losers not getting laid. It sounds too simple and dumb to be true but it's always been losers not getting laid since the dawn of time ruining it all for the rest of us.
Its more than that , Its lack of prosperity
I think you hot the nail on the head....since the garden of eden it always come down to something super basic like this 😂
@@mr.majestic3851if you ain’t got money, you ain’t got honey…creative intelligence always finds a way to get more - most of us don’t have enough of it…
I don't ever get laid, and I'm a Marxist. It's not getting laid in combination with religion that causes fascism.
Thank you Thom for this most excellent explanation. One more big point: we haven't begun to see the full extent of Climate Change causing massive immigration., as many 10s of million of coastal-dwelling people are vulnerable to salt water intrusion into fresh water aquifers
This AV is much better than the normal set up. No hate, just feedback. Also, I love the equipment in the back, is that shortwave?
Well,you can't just blame corporations. You have to also blame the greed of the American people. They are a rootless people with no culture. So, over time the American Empire provided well, but for the most part, the show is over.
I realize it's a meme that the average American couldn't locate anything on a map besides the place they were born, but I didn't realize Thom is an average person.
Syria is not near Libya. It is next to Jordan. Both are in Asia.
Good call and response!!
People are feeling fearful and out of control as a consequence of rapid change. They want authoritarian leaders with simple solutions.
They want a comical daddy figure like the Orange Mussolini
Here’s a question I’ve been thinking about, are there any billionaires who care about the survival and welfare of the human race and the planet? And if so who are they? What are they doing to counteract their fellow greedy bastards?
This problem is older than you think. It began with the FPO in Austria (part of the coalition government in 2000 - 2003 and 2003 - 2005), the Vlaams Blok in Belgium (biggest party in Flanders in 2004) and the Front National in France (Jean Marie Le Pen, second in presidential elections in 2002). These were the first great successes of the extreme right.
Corporations, period. How the hell do you not know? Divide and conquer!
Tom, you didn't talk about Fascism or define what Fascism is.
@@Mustapha1963 He really doesn't he's just a democratic shill who will never say that the Democrats helped build the Corporate System with the Republicans they don't want the system destroyed.
Mussolini defined Fascism as the merger of Corporate and State power.
That's because it's the Loony Lefts favorite buzzword.
It's the old switcheroo tactic, accuse the Opposition of everything that you are doing.
The Democrats have been PROVEN to have actively censored opposition free speech, and they are trying to throw their political Opponents in jail.
So what do the Democrats do? Accuse their Opposition of wanting to destroy democracy !!!!!
Absolutely correct.
You could very easily look up that information in a dictionary or Wikipedia on your own there genius. Are you a child that needs to be led by the hand to learn new things???
Thanks, good to see we're succeeding.
Great caller. And analysis by Thom.
How would a modern cosmopolitanism work? How thick or thin is a local cultural community that can still retain it's functions amongst other local communities?
Thank you for the video Thomas
Half of humanity is terrified of change and doesn't want to evolve with those of us who are enlightened.
The new DSLR looks great, Thom. 🎉🎉🎉
Program, divide, and conquer, then control. Will AI be our new master?
Some say AI is a tool already being used by greedy cults to confuse, divide and conquer…At the end of the day, the powerful will destroy this current civilization.
I don't in any way condone the right-wing movement but there are other factors at work beside the refugee crisis. Firstly, Muslim groups in many countries are becoming increasingly radicalised. This can be blamed in part on the local white populations showing hostility to immigrants and making it harder for them to integrate, but the fact remains that radical Islamists are a visible feature of many western countries and are perceived as a threat to the local culture (often out of proportion to their actual numbers).
Secondly, the culture war rhetoric is convincing a lot of straight white boys and men that they are no longer valued or respected in today's "woke" society. There is a perceived "crisis of masculinity" which pushes frustrated young working class males towards those political factions who validate old-fashioned ideas of strength and manliness.
Every time someone applies the term 'woke' to their written piece, I cringe because so many in today's world distort its true definition.
It has been weaponised to such a degree it now represents something bad.
For those who think so, here's an accurate interpretation/explanation/definition of Woke.
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Not bigoted or prejudiced
To be woke is to treat everyone fairly, kindly and with respect and dignity.
To be aware of social injustices and those who would infringe upon, or violate, your human rights and freedoms.
Woke is simply not being hateful, not being cruel but being tolerant and understanding.
Anti woke simply means you're against the concept of equality.
For ever radical Muslim there is a radical Christian.
"yesterday" is not good as itself. The idea of "good old tough strong men" - is a fantasy and questionable in many sense.
We need corporate dollars out of government. If it's illegal to lobby these crooked people in Congress then they will finally have to represent people instead of business
thank for your programs You will be able to help so many Americans to educate them self.🙏🙏
You should know Thom. You're part of it!!!°
Looking good tom
If I work full-time and still can't afford a house or family, what are my reasons for believing in democracy?
Would you pay the exorbitant prices if those items were made at home, instead of India or China?
Money.
Fascists discovered the internet and realised that lies look perfectly true with the right graphics. Just make a verification app, or any kind of lie detector software at ai level, so it becomes the new normal that the internet have a fiction section and a non-fiction section
To the caller.....WELL SAID...🤔 ... 😮 😥
Syria is not in Africa, genius.
Yeah. He seems to be confused. Why would subsaharan Africans go sideways to Syria, before zagging west to Libya to cross the Med to Europe?
Humans theres just too many of us
One thing Thom isn't mentioning is countries like Sweden & Germany are very bureaucratic and to get a good job you need an education in the right field etc. Many of the refugees came with no education and would only qualify for low skilled/low paying work. If you want to call that discrimination just be aware it forks the same for the local population.
The right wants to treat the symptoms not the disease. One example: immigration is a complex issue: it involves all kinds of issues from climate change, etc. Rather than solve the issues, we want to export the victims. Problem is the issues involved are not easily solved. It’s only going to get worse & instead of tackling the causes we’re punishing the victims.
Sounds like Republicans
Bingo, Thom.
Actually the story about Syria is only the 2nd half of the real story, and somewhat misleading. Thom should know better. Economist Paul Krugman blew the whistle about this a long time ago. What really happened was Assad implemented a green revolution for big Agribusinesses only, and those corporates immediately started running down the local ground water levels to maximize their own agricultural production, and profits.. without concern for anyone elses needs. They had set their businesses up in areas where a large number of Syria's traditional farming communities still existed. When the climate change driven desertification set in (in the form of a persistent drought), the local farmers no longer had enough ground water for their own crops, and Assad wasn't interested in listening, let alone accountable.. even when many of these farmers turned into urban refugees. So the protests turned into an armed rebellion, and ultimately civil war. Good one, Bashar.
Thank you for that summary. I was paying a lot of attention to the demonstrations and subsequent assaults on the cities by Assad's forces, but had not dug deeply enough into the complaints that compelled the groups of Syrians to protest. So I appreciate filling us in. It's an interesting back story.
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I have to say, your citation about the violence that ensued is unduly abbreviated and slightly off, in my view. Protests did not just "turn into" armed rebellion. And I would argue there was no civil war.
Initially, after a couple weeks of peaceful demonstrations, protesters were sniped on by government-paid militia.
Then violent crackdowns on the demonstrations were ordered.
There were some mass arrests, executions, & secret burials.
Then Assad sent tanks into the cities and neighborhoods that protests had earlier taken place in.
The tanks just started randomly blowing up apartment buildings.
Then came the aerial bombing, also random.
**After 5-6 months** of buildings being bombed, neighborhoods getting gassed with chlorine, & untold numbers of innocent civilians being killed,
the people started arming themselves and fighting back.
It was not a civil war.
These people were just defending themselves from being obliterated by Assad's military. If they weren't being obliterated, they were being driven out.
FDR best prez EVER!
Given the inescapable pressure point of climate change, are corporate interests better served by strong democracies or "strong leaders"?
The question should be what has happened to the democratic party?
That was a thoughtful point. I agree too!!! They essentially get NOTHING from their political affiliation. They may get group belonging out of it but really few money related benefits
I wonder what the callers take on UBI is?
Toynbee talks about mass migrations of the displaced in A Study o HIstory as a phenomenon that has occurred over and over again.
Fascism is appealing for those who don’t want to reason, compare..think.
There are two major reasons jobs left America. One, we demanded a cleaner environment, air, water and soil. The cost of this was not an option to pass on to the consumer. And of course, out source for cheap labor. As for people not doing well financially ...... You can write a book about that. Poor planning, poor education, substance abuse, health issues etc.
One word….INEQUALITY.
Niether the left nor the right have done anything to address the issue & don’t expect anything to change.
Not true. Left-wing movements have consistently held a "horizontal or egalitarian conception of society", where greater equality is the goal, whereas right-wing movements hold a "vertical or inegalitarian perception of society", where inequality is part of a social order.
That's. What. The. Fuss. About. People. Of. Color. Becoming. The. Majority 😢
They think GED = CEO.
What’s new about immigration?! And the way they are treated?
The 1933 Business Plot 2.0, but worldwide and with corrupt money rather than armies
Power and greed
A combination of climate change, desertification, and hiring discrimination set this whole crisis up?
Wow everybody knows who's finding that it's the wealthy billionaires who fund it all
The growing inner lack of fulfilment and the being lied too
Yes it seems to be worldwide. They use the same playbook.
Hard times makes strong people, strong people make good times, good times makes weak people, weak people make hard times, so the wheel goes over and over waning and waxing. Nature mother earth, spirals through the cosmos. The way is Jhana, singularity, the middle path, the awakening of the inner dream self. We are nature and this is her Matrix ❤❤❤
If that were true, then Africa has been waiting a damn long time for its "good times", because things have been terrible over there forever. In truth, good times come about because of intellectuals, not because of people who suffer through hard times. The reason the West has been more prosperous though-out history is because they have more education.
can people stop referring to the former President a billionaire, in debt for billions but not actually in possession of a billion
The people are behind. They think it was so much fun in the 1930's in Germany, in China, in North Korea and Russia, that they wanna try it worlwide now. It is the people igniting this, noone else.
down with the supreme court
Wealth and poverty are relative. Millionaires are the poor at a billionaires' convention. So everybody claws at staying ahead of the next guy/gal. In the end, we all leave without our wealth and debt; but until then, life is a competition.
Is that Sam Kinison on the first call?
You want to know what's fanning the flames? Corporations.
Fossil fuels losing..
Its a standard cycle. While the status quo is stable the political spectrum narrows to the middle. And the first thing people do when the status quo falters is vacate the center. From the late 1800s until today, everytime a fault appears and recedes, USA moves the center a little more right.
All political ideologies boil down to a single sentence:
Make sure society moves towards helping (blank).
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Your ideology determines how you fill that blank:
All the way left: everyone
All the way right: me
Everything else falls inside this spectrum
USA left (which globally is just right of center): USA and Allies
USA main Right: landowners
MAGA: MAGA
You get the idea.
The right WAS the correct answer when their wasn't enough food to go around.
We've since gained the ability to negate that scarcity, but maintain it artificially because.....profit.
The real left (which i count myself as) keeps coming back decade after decade because cooperation is the real human condition. And now that the technology exists to produce more than enough.....its time to stop pretending that working together is the evil option.
Sorry for the rant, have a lovely day.
People want to have and preserve their own cultures. Their anger is not directed towards immigrants its directed towards their own leader who are prioritizing immigrants over their own citizens. Democracy is just a political theory just like fascism. If people see that democracy isnt working they will look to something else. This could all easily be averted if political leaders would put their own countries and own citizens first. Instead they continue to ignore them
Yes, but ignoring other people and their problems only comes back to bite us. If people in o5her countries don’t have a decent life then they will migrate.
@@RPlavo people have alway migrated but you cannot prioritize their needs over the needs of your own citizens. A strong country is far more able to help others than is a country weaken by internal turmoil.
Spreads why? highly narcissistic people mostly. Question should be? When will humanity tackle the Narcissism issue within humanity