For me, there has only ever been one problem with democracy in general, and it's bastard sponsor Capitalism in specific:
-Capitalism=Money at all costs-
That's a hell of a thing to deal with, the kind of thing you want to turn away from and hope that if you don't get into it, you will somehow remain untarnished. As if you not knowing that the reason you can buy cheap shit at Wal-mart is because people got paid 18 cents to make it makes it OK to do it. Makes make mack. Why do you think you have to stretch every dollar to begin with? The Walton family wants to do slavery one better; They want you, and your government (which means your tax money) to pay them to enslave you.
I understand how it rebels against everything we'd like to believe about humanity's goodness, but five people (the Walton Family) really do want all the money in the world. Did you really think the next evil mother fucker was going to show up wearing a "Hitler II" T-shirt? Well, the next time you wonder how millions of Germans followed that asshole, try not to employ your thought that you are somehow superior in your ability not to fall for that shit. Because from what I see, America, a lot of you let an insane amount of stupidity and destruction pass without a word. You ARE falling for that shit.
Let me clue you in, tool. The Walton Family is playing you like a fiddle, enriching only themselves, doing nothing for the benefit of this country or it's people, destroying decades of American prestige and goodwill around the world with a policy of exploitation and greed, and generally living up to every bad thing everyone else in the world thinks of America. They are enabling everyone in poverty to stay there, and turning people who used to be doing well into people who can't pay the rent. And you are helping them do it every time you walk into their store. Bravo.
This is how it's done:
- Wal-Mart moves in to a town.
- The majority of businesses in that town go under.
- Wal-Mart becomes one of the now very few employers in that town.
- Many citizens of that town now have no choice but to work there AND spend much of their money there. They are effectively enslaved and beholden to the slave owner.
- Wal-Mart pays these people a wage no one could live on, and forces the American Taxpayer to cover the difference (Most Wal-mart employees qualify for welfare, and your tax money is the Wal-Mart 'medical plan' ).
- Before long, the town's economy is irrevocably tied to Wal-Mart, a monopoly that 20th century robber barons would envy.
- The town is now a de facto labor camp for the new Walton regime, and has no choice but to support it.
--Welcome to the Fourth Reich--
So, the next time you shop at Wal-Mart, wear your brownshirt, Nazi. Because as surely as Germans exploited Jews, you are exploiting the poor of this country, and China, and others around the world. They are the New Jews. You are the new Passive Nazi.
And don't give me any of that 'I only do it to save money' crap. Do you think it's easy to respect the rights of other human beings? No, it is hard, and it takes conscious effort. Don't ever invoke the sacrifice of others when you won't even sacrifice the convenience of cheap shit made by an enslaved population. Just because that population happens to be outside of your insular neighborhood, or halfway around the world, makes you no less culpable. When you patronize Wal-Mart, you shit on the American ideal of freedom for all. Across the planet, slum settlements that differ very little from the death camps of Nazi Germany spring up, and children labor for almost nothing to make that shit you buy. For them, there can be no escape from the squalor and hopelessness that your unquenchable consumerism helped to create. You enable the subjugation of millions of people for your slight benefit, and for the obscene enrichment of a powerful few. Make no mistake, you and the average citizen of Nazi Germany have much in common.
So continue to turn a blind eye to the greed and corruption of the few. Tell yourself that you need that $30.00 DVD, or that $80.00 pair of Nikes, or that fucking talking fish plaque. Just remember that you are destroying the lives of millions of people when you do it, tool. You are the new Reich.
Heil Walton, you bastards.
