VintageBetter
Senior Member
I don't know how it is where you live, but where I live, the society in general has decided to embrace thievery by making it a misdemeanor for which the thieves are rarely caught.
The people who didn't want to survive in such a hard and harsh environment have decided to move away. The system is too massive to fix, so they give up and move. There is no shame in this. People fighting corruption alone and winning is only a fairy tale. It doesn't often happen in real life.
This thievery was rampant on Wall Street too in the Great Recession. That whole thing was a giant scam facilitated by our laws, or lack of laws. It shows up again in cryptocurrency. There have been some big winners in that arena, but the big losers have not been counted yet.
In our financial system, the press doesn't often write about the losers except to demean and denigrate them because the press is enamored with stocks and bonds and the whole thief system too. Never forget that the press often lifts up and promotes some of the worst scoundrels in our society before they are shown to be scoundrels, thieves, and even child molesters and murderers. The press gave so many of them hours and hours of free publicity because of its habit of chasing after shiny stories ONLY because they are shiny and because reporters, editors, producers are often followers of one another, like lemmings.
I think the America I hoped for in the 1970s, the post-Vietnam time when I hoped we'd turn from mayhem and war into construction of OUR economy, build up a nation that would be for 100% of us, and not just the top 10%, never came to fruition. Instead, the movers, shakers and financiers sold America to whoever wanted to buy. Now it's been parceled out in the name of "globalism".
The financiers told the politicians this would prevent war. Sell pieces of the land to the global community and then certain aggressors will not be aggressive, right? Because they wouldn't harm their own property, right? Ha! It was basically an appeasement strategy.
The other reason America has lost its honor is because in 'Murica, we attribute goodness and moral courage to wealth. We attribute good motives and character to the wealthy, we are TAUGHT to do this by our entertainment media, our general press, and our financial media, and we attribute evil to the poor just because they are poor.
Our whole system of data selling that runs Silicon Valley, and from which Wall Street benefits because these are publicly traded companies - it's all thievery. It's our data. They steal it, package it and sell it.
I don't know how to fix it. I know I cannot. I try to vote for leaders who can see this problem, but OMG, so many of them are blind to it. I mean intelligent people who have families they care about, but they don't care about the thievery that permeates American culture now. These same leaders will say, "We cannot go back to the old Welfare system with subsidized housing for all who need it because that system encouraged laziness!"
They say laziness is the great sin of America.
I disagree. I think the great moral failing of America these days is theft. The rich steal from the poor every day, in 100 million ways. But, that's OK in America because they are rich and therefore, "good".
The people who didn't want to survive in such a hard and harsh environment have decided to move away. The system is too massive to fix, so they give up and move. There is no shame in this. People fighting corruption alone and winning is only a fairy tale. It doesn't often happen in real life.
This thievery was rampant on Wall Street too in the Great Recession. That whole thing was a giant scam facilitated by our laws, or lack of laws. It shows up again in cryptocurrency. There have been some big winners in that arena, but the big losers have not been counted yet.
In our financial system, the press doesn't often write about the losers except to demean and denigrate them because the press is enamored with stocks and bonds and the whole thief system too. Never forget that the press often lifts up and promotes some of the worst scoundrels in our society before they are shown to be scoundrels, thieves, and even child molesters and murderers. The press gave so many of them hours and hours of free publicity because of its habit of chasing after shiny stories ONLY because they are shiny and because reporters, editors, producers are often followers of one another, like lemmings.
I think the America I hoped for in the 1970s, the post-Vietnam time when I hoped we'd turn from mayhem and war into construction of OUR economy, build up a nation that would be for 100% of us, and not just the top 10%, never came to fruition. Instead, the movers, shakers and financiers sold America to whoever wanted to buy. Now it's been parceled out in the name of "globalism".
The financiers told the politicians this would prevent war. Sell pieces of the land to the global community and then certain aggressors will not be aggressive, right? Because they wouldn't harm their own property, right? Ha! It was basically an appeasement strategy.
The other reason America has lost its honor is because in 'Murica, we attribute goodness and moral courage to wealth. We attribute good motives and character to the wealthy, we are TAUGHT to do this by our entertainment media, our general press, and our financial media, and we attribute evil to the poor just because they are poor.
Our whole system of data selling that runs Silicon Valley, and from which Wall Street benefits because these are publicly traded companies - it's all thievery. It's our data. They steal it, package it and sell it.
I don't know how to fix it. I know I cannot. I try to vote for leaders who can see this problem, but OMG, so many of them are blind to it. I mean intelligent people who have families they care about, but they don't care about the thievery that permeates American culture now. These same leaders will say, "We cannot go back to the old Welfare system with subsidized housing for all who need it because that system encouraged laziness!"
They say laziness is the great sin of America.
I disagree. I think the great moral failing of America these days is theft. The rich steal from the poor every day, in 100 million ways. But, that's OK in America because they are rich and therefore, "good".
