Voting for Virgin Grandmothers

Let’s give the masters a standing ovation. They’ve convinced the citizens that the government is a democratic institution running a capitalist society. Democratic capitalism! That is an oxymoron on the level of virgin grandmothers. A nation can be democratic or capitalistic. It can’t be both. Democracy means rule of the people, at least the majority. At least! It doesn’t mean voting for a selection of the most successful resource and money accumulators. It doesn’t mean giving tax breaks to a tiny minority paid for by cutting services for the great majority. Which happens regularly regardless of the color of the masters’ elected servants.

We can either live in a money-oriented, capitalistic society, where a few (less than 1%) decide the laws, rules, regulations and policies for the nation, or in a people-oriented, communal society, where the will of the majority (more than 50%) form the national decisions.

What is capitalism? It is  an economic system where the resources, institutions, utilities and services of a community or nation are owned by individuals, not by the community itself. It is a money-oriented society as opposed to a people-oriented one.

The masters claim that private ownership of businesses is a form of capitalism. It is not. More than 50% of all businesses are owned by a single person. These drivers, dentists, artists, cafe owners, painters, musicians, gardeners, mechanics and 100s of other single owners of small businesses are not capitalists.

The masters also claim that community run enterprises are inefficient, monopolies or…
(sinister background music) socialism, or even… (more dramatic sinister background music) communism. In other words, a hospital owned by a handful of profit-driven stockholders = good. A hospital owned by the community for the sake of the health of the community = bad. Ditto for schools, medicine, transportation, banking, etc.

“The world’s richest 1% have more than twice as much wealth as 6.9 billion people.”
Oxfam International, 2021

Virgin Grandmothers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains of innocent.

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“The governors of greed are all agreed
that making the rich richer is what we all need.”

Dartwill Aquila

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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.