Great article on David Michael Green's blogsite entitled "When Pigs Rule" http://www.regressiveantidote.net/
points out a chink in their armor as the oligarchy (with the help of both political parties) does its best to destroy the middle class in the U.S. (actually I'm not that naive, technology, quickly disappearing natural resources - oil in particular - , and planetary degradation, will put all humans in the same boat within my lifetime, the uber-wealthy and everyone else).
But in the near term have you ever wondered what happens when the forces of superstition run up against the forces of greed (or vice versa)?
I've always said that in the end science trumps religion. But actually good old fashioned capitalism may beat it to the punch.
To wit: (from the end of Green's article)
"Telling the truth is the worst crime you can commit, as an incident in New Hampshire this week well proves. The Catholic church has, by all appearances, been little short of a rape factory for decades if not centuries now, and yet conservatives can hardly run fast enough to defend it against the slightest attempt by its victims to gain some meager measure of justice in compensation for the damage done to them. They’ll defend it, that is, unless anyone in the church should make the foolish mistake of speaking truthfully about the effects of regressive policymaking upon the poor and downtrodden. Bishop John McCormack did just that with respect to draconian Republican-proposed state budget cuts in New Hampshire. That caused D.J. Bettencourt, the House Majority Leader there, to call the good bishop a “pedophile pimp”.
Which is probably precisely what he is, but just the same – wow. In case you were wondering what’s really sacred amongst regressives, now you know, pal. Ca-ching, ca-ching."
When/if other ministers begin exhorting their flocks to support sharing the burden (i.e. taxing the rich) to help feed the poor will the rich stand idly by? My guess is they won't. mammonista
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