Two Visions, Two Choices
The political landscape in America is divided into two very different groups: One group is driven by wealth and acute self-interest that pulls more and more income and wealth into their camp; while the second group is in a fight for survival from a lack of income and wealth.
The first group has about 90 percent of all the wealth, while the second group has about 10 percent of the wealth. Everyone in the first group has the economic and social wherewithal for a safe, secure, healthy, and prosperous lifestyle. More than one-half of the second group must live without the means for an adequate lifestyle, e.g., many lack food, fuel, housing, health care, transportation, education, employment, and opportunities for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The balance of the second group live in moderate circumstances.
The economic and social differences between the two groups derive primarily from the advantages of wealth, from a legal system that protects property especially the inheritance laws, from social networks, and by a widespread propaganda mechanism put into place by political and ideological operatives. There is little more to be said about the motivations or the circumstances within each group. Putting labels on each group is a just convenient way to mask the basic facts, and to engage in false and misleading propaganda about the conditions and the motivations of everyone.
Here are a few more facts: If you are in the first group, you’re part of about 1/10th of the population, or about 32 million residents. If you are in the second group, your numbers comprise about 9/10ths of the population, or 290 million residents. The first group has approximately $80 trillion dollars of wealth, while the second group has about $7 trillion dollars of wealth.
Now, turn on the propaganda machine, and the differences between these two groups get blurred, confused, and bewildering especially among the 160 million or so poor residents. But that is exactly the purpose of propaganda. The lesser educated are less able to distinguish between propaganda and facts, between good intentions and bad, and between those candidates who truly have their interests at heart and those that do not.
It makes to sense at all—none—for any member of the second group to vote for candidates for political office who come from the first group, or are obligated to the most powerful members of the first group. To do so is self-defeating. It is also a major road block to all the efforts to bring about the very social and economic changes that they need.
It is for this reason that I intend to post or repost several articles that reveal the true nature of propaganda, how everyone can recognize it at work, and how to avoid becoming a victim to it. Knowledge is power, especially when it can bring immense changes into the lives of so many.
Love ya!
Jane