- More unjust wars and a "poverty draft" that manipulates young people into enlisting to kill innocent people abroad and then come home traumatized and suicidal;
- Schools that use standardized tests designed to fail the poorest children and persuade them that they are too dumb or lazy to even deserve a decent-paying job;
- Health care insurance that is increasingly difficult to afford unless one gets a policy that hardly pays for anything.
We sometimes win a raise in the minimum wage here or there, but what happens? The employers hire fewer people. We may make college more affordable, but then what? We end up feeling lucky to get an unpaid internship.
We're losing the fight against the billionaire class that runs the nation. How come?
The reason we're losing is because we haven't even explicitly aimed to win. We haven't yet figured out what it even MEANS to win.
Because we cannot even articulate what we are for, what we mean by winning, we fail to inspire people to join us in fighting for it. On the contrary, our silence about what we are for plays right into the hands of the billionaire class, the ruling class.
The ruling class has spent many decades propagandizing the idea that any attempt to make society genuinely equal and democratic will only make things worse. It tells us that if you want equality that's Communism. And what happens under Communism? Nearly all of us have been given George Orwell's Animal Farm to read in school, because it tells us (as summarized by Cliff Notes) what happens: "Life for all the animals (except the pigs) is harsh. Eventually, the pigs begin walking on their hind legs and take on many other qualities of their former human oppressors. The Seven Commandments are reduced to a single law: 'All Animals Are Equal / But Some Are More Equal Than Others.'"
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