Originally posted by wicked_lord
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I do kinda agree with you that this administration, and the previous republican one, prey on the weak. It's almost like the definition of capitalism has kinda been mutated to describe all the ways one can legally get away with fleecing their neighbor rather than how one can simply profit from goods or services rendered. And since corporations can now contribute obscene amounts of money to campaigns as if they are individual citizens, they get the political favor to continue allowing them to get away with all the criminal and unethical shit they do to further fist-fuck the economy and the working middle-class American taxpayer.
It's been my observation that people in politics have had very little to do with directly instigating any racial unrest. People protesting for this or that or whatever have been pissed off about a lot of things for a long time now. People who protest the war but support the troops, Occupy Wall Street, these college kids and their Safe Space protests for whatever, BlackLivesMatter, etc. People are mad because everyones getting poorer every year. The cost of shit is going up, the number of bills people get is going up, and the dollar amount on their paychecks is either staying the same or not increasing quickly enough to keep up with what they're paying out. People are emotional, people are looking for someone to blame. So I suppose in an indirect way, the governments shitty way of running the business of the country has a hand in it, but I don't see that they've made the conscious effort to sow racial unrest. That would mean that they have been "effective" at something... and I'm just not willing to give them that much credit.
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