The Trump issue is of some importance. He originally ran on a platform that varied to some degree from the agenda of the elite, but has since been brought into line. He is now a warmonger like the rest of them. It is true that he is a buffoon and a loose cannon, and that it is quite dangerous that a man of his caliber should have his finger on the nuclear button. But it is not true that getting rid of him will create a fundamentally more sane foreign policy. He will be replaced by someone else (presumably Pence) who will support the continuous warmongering policies of the US, and the march toward World War III. Replacing various people at the top of the .001% hierarchy, whether in banks and corporations, or in government, will not change any fundamental policy. Those removed from their positions will simply be replaced with others who will continue to implement the same policies. There are no good apples. The system itself must be replaced.
A fundamental misunderstanding of many people who consider themselves to be progressives is that the essential progressive task is to provide equal opportunity to everybody -- whether they be poor, gays, women, or blacks -- to rise to the upper class. In its most unsophisticated form we find this misunderstanding articulated in various "rags to riches" stories. Rags to riches stories are essentially repressive. The aim of democratic socialism is not to enable a few poor people to rise to the top where they can hobnob with the rich and famous. Even less is the primary aim to get more people from groups that have been marginalized for other reasons -- blacks, women and gays for example -- into the upper class. Rather, the legitimate aim of progressive politics is to flatten the hierarchy within which one finds a privileged upper class opposed to a lower class that is excluded from meaningful participation in decision-making and that does not have a fair share of the resources needed for a decent life.
The .001% cannot rule the world by their violence alone. Their ultimate success depends on the effectiveness of their false flags, deceit and propaganda. They cannot rule a people who have access to real information, who are able to think and evaluate data, and who have an alternate vision of reality. Such a people will understand that it is not in their interest to be sucked dry by the .001%, and that it is not in the interest of the vast majority of people to promote endless wars and mayhem throughout the world.
The natural allies of the poor and marginalized of one race, sex, sexual orientation or country are the poor and marginalized of all races, both sexes, all sexual orientations, and all countries. So long as the poor and marginalized of divergent races, sexes, orientations or countries are at war with one another, the elite will be happy, for the forces that might successfully oppose them are in disarray. Perhaps we see the most extreme form of this inability to see one's natural allies when a person who was brought up poor in one country, murders poor people in another country in a war that benefits only the rich.
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