MikeK
Gold Member
Wealthy Americans have good cause to be concerned about the prospect of a communist revolution in the United States. But for the average citizen of contemporary America to express such concern is an oblique declaration of political ignorance at the most basic level.
A communist revolution invariably is the consequence of economic oppression of a nation's underclass by an elite ruling class. It happens when the mass is consigned to living in abject poverty while a minority of elites enjoy the luxuries available from profligate wealth. It happens when rebellion is the only recourse of the oppressed. But rather than devolve into a post-rebellion state of degenerative autonomous anarchy the communist objective is equal redistribution of all wealth.
The existence of the American Middle Class makes the prospect of a communist revolution absurdly nonsensical. But because the ultimate objective of the financially elite, America's de facto ruling class, is incremental elimination of the Middle Class, it logically follows that the concept of communist rebellion is a very real concern to them. This is why they have diligently set about to indoctrinate ordinary Americans with the utterly false notion that communism is an evil and viable threat to us all. And the effort to propagate this deceptive myth was initiated in the 1950s by the wholly corrupt, drug-addicted sonofabitch, Senator Joseph McCarthy, who ruined the lives of thousands of innocent and loyal Americans whom he falsely accused of being communists.
Those of us who support the Occupy movement are interested in a level of redistribution of this Nation's wealth which is necessary to sustain a viable middle class as it existed between the late 1940s and early 1980s -- prior to the "Reagan Revolution" and the era of deregulation. We are not interested in stripping the wealthy of their hoards. We are interested only in restoring equitable balance in distribution of the wealth which we have labored to produce.
We have no objection to reasonable wealth. But the increasing accumulation of excessive wealth must be addressed in the interest of preserving American democracy and the American Middle Class.
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