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 The top 1% has controlled the 99% of #humanity for always. The #Revolution & world #peace is a gift from #Satoshi 

The logic specific to the #USA is partially below 👇 

Since the 60's it has been the goal of the 1% to crush the middle class. It had grown post WW2 with the GI Bill educating so many first generation students and elevating them into the middle class.

How do I explain to a 2 year old why so many Christian’s follow the most unChrist like person on the planet? 

American Ice Cream

Dear 2 year old. Let’s take a trip to the playground. Go play with the other children.
All the children stay entertained & blissfully play in peace. 
The ice cream truck comes with every choice imaginable. 
We go to purchase ice cream but realize some of the other kids don’t have money. They don’t even come to the line. Doesn’t that make you sad? They are unable to see they should be allowed the same choices & a fair chance at purchasing ice cream. 

Dear 2 year old: I’m going to pay for others to have some ice cream now. 

Run away mad if you want. I’ll explain later. 

The 2 year old is angry but eventually forgets about the ice cream & plays again. 

Later the 2 year old lays down for a nap. I explain that WE can have ice cream whenever we want. Others don’t have that choice. Is that fair? Shouldn’t humans help one another when we can? 

He sleeps. 

On the other side of town a child sleeps thinking about how good that ice cream tastes & he will do anything to be able to afford ice cream in the future. He grows up & makes money to do so but quickly forgets that others should be given ice cream as well. Isn’t that sad? 

In another version of the USA
we all live happily & have the freedom to choose our favorite flavor of ice cream. 
We work together sharing our resources & pay others fairly to create the bowls that hold our ice cream. But that’s just an American dream.


WWII sent off boys from the farm. 
Lucky men came home 
Many were heartbroken 
Fractured souls & altered minds
Attempted to claim their peace 
Of the American dream
Honoring their fallen friends & respect 
Back to school they went
Educated now birthed the middle class

But wait! Political interests 
Quickly engaged by the bags of money 
Force fed by marketing 
They can’t take **our** money 
Peasants can’t hold status 
Wealthy lived in privilege 
They didn’t want only their income
Sought to destroy others 
How to do so they asked? 
Nixon

     Reagan- Nom- Icks 
Manipulating others to hate Ebonics 
     Dose them with sugar water 
anti-union laws pushed 
     The poor are lesser humans 
Take away their pensions 
      Less educated masses 
Wealth force-fed the regulations 
      Dumb, deaf or blind 🇺🇸 stayed 
Going to church on Sunday 
    And more loose taxes for the power 
But God only knows the hour 😂
     Hypocrisy!!!

USA unaware of 
Evil pulling the strings. 
Peacemakers spoke 
As always 
Powerfully silenced. 

Then the - isms
Keep the pawns fighting amongst theirselves 
Religion, class, race and sex
Divided caste chattel is US society
We’ve bought into “freedom” ideology 
“Let them eat fast food.”
We ignore or berate those unlike us. 
This keeps us constantly wrestling 

Inspired by this I saw on Reddit. Wish I had persons name to credit them. 

A growing middle class, presented a poltical danger to the interests of the wealthy, it's growth took away from their status and privilege, so it had to be both shrunk and turned against the the lower class.

Nixon started it, Reagan perfected it with anti-union laws, demonizing the poor, slashing pensions, underfunding education and loosing the taxes and regulations on corporations.

Classism, Sexism, Racism and Religion are all used to further seperate working class Americans, who have more in common than not,  and to give them someone to focus their anger and blame on, when their own upward mobility stalls; all the while the rich get richer.