Without access to health care or higher education and burdened by heavy college loans, people are practically caged within a system where the actualization of their potential becomes harder and harder to achieve. 1/1
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Chronic economic anxiety thus becomes a constant companion., as it was even before the pandemic for tens of millions of Americans.There, in the constriction of their opportunities, lies the constriction of the American economy. 1/2
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To speak of the economy as a separate entity that bestows its abundance on people rather than as the creativity of people sharing their abundance with the world, is the upside down thinking that makes our system so skewed and inevitably cruel.1/3
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Even now masters of the universe speak of re-opening the economy with almost bloodless lack of consideration for how many millions of people will be too financially devastated by then to participate. Bubonic plague led to end of serfdom; COVID-19 threatens to re-introduce it.1/4
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If our govt doesn’t stop underestimating the intelligence of the American people, recognizing the barrenness of our system has been revealed for all its heartlessness, they will be caught off guard by a wave of chaos that will come crashing over all of us when the pandemic ends.
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Your very wise its a shame the country didn't listen to you i swear to. GOD i really had to choose over you and tulsi i picked tulsi because of her experience but you are bye far the most wisest and noblest of woman good heart good character
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Someone has written that anxiety is the basic feature of a market society, where all relations are embedded in the economic mechanism.
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Thank you Marianne for your commitment and courage in telling the truth. We all pray that Holy Spirit guide you and sustain you always. You are a blessing to us and to all of God’s creations. Did you see one of the Progressive commentators has crowned you Queen of the movement?
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“As long as they have no standard of comparison, the people never even realize they’re oppressed.” ~1984
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