Reply #29: blaming the people [View All]

[Two Americas]

This is what the right wingers have trained us to do - blame the people with the least power and access to resources, and then dismiss inequality and injustice by saying that if only those people had gone about things correctly, cleverly, they would not have any problems.

Politics is not about personal lifestyle choices. That can only support the right wing to look at things that way.

It is a right wing distortion of history to say that "for many decades borrowing was a very positive and uplifting thing for Americans." After the New Deal, capital was reigned in so that people had a chance. In agriculture, to this day the New Deal farm credit program is preventing the crisis that is happening with credit and finance in the rest of the country.

This money the bankers loan to people - where do you imagine that money comes from?

This is not some esoteric or academic subject. Sit down and watch the film It's a Wonderful Life to understand the difference between what you are espousing, and how finance can actually be "a very positive and uplifting thing for Americans."

The "positive and uplifting" is to have a decent job, paid fairly, with access to resources, a home, access to health care, public infrastructure and a chance at a decent life. None of that is thanks to the bankers.

It is a false argument to claim that the only alternative to your view is hating bankers or something. Are you by any chance a banker or Wall Street executive? You are talking like one. You are defending the premises and assumptions that underpin Reaganomics, and against those that underpin the New Deal.

What is the point of beating the Republicans if we are going to perpetuate all of the same premises and assumptions?



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