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A Lesson from Jon Voight, Tool of Capitalism

By Ari | Apr 22, 10 09:14 AM

I try to only post positive things but I had to make an exception this morning: Jon Voight on Obama via Huffington Post

The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds people poison, giving them the idea that they are entitled to take from the wealthier who have lived and worked in a democracy that understands that capitalism is the only truth that keeps a nation healthy ... [Obama uses] a socialistic, Marxist teaching, and with it, he rapes this nation...

A dude can not use the word "rape" in this way and not be oppressive. Let's leave that word for real rape, okay? That quibble aside, I just want to make sure that everyone knows that it is not socialism but CAPITALISM that is sucking the blood out of the world's people like a giant parasite.

If capitalism is "the only truth that keeps a nation healthy" why are so many people suffering for want of money in this country? Because capitalism is a mechanism for moving money from workers into the pockets of rich people. Where do you think all the money goes? Why doesn't all of our hard work pay off? Because the owner of the coal mine, and the stockholders in the coal company, make astronomically more money than the miners - labor is being exploited. Voight reveals this in his quote - he's essentially saying, "protect me from mean Mr. Obama, I'm a rich person who's profited from the exploitation of workers and I want to keep profiting."

Capitalists want us to believe that capitalism is our friend, that it's how people get rich, and that getting rich is desirable. But it is a lie. Capitalism is doomed to failure. If you read Marx, you'll see why. Marx was not some devil out to destroy our righteous system, he was a humanitarian looking for ways to liberate the masses. WE ARE THE MASSES. Jon Voight is not the masses. Goldman Sachs is not the masses. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE MASSES. We are the ones being exploited so that people like Jon Voight can jet all over the world spreading lies and misinformation to maintain their power.

This is our world, these are our lives. Capitalism was not made for us, it was made to exploit us. The sooner we can all see that its supporters have bamboozled us, the sooner we can reclaim our freedom and our planet from these thieves.

I am a pacifist and advocate non-violence. I believe the means are the ends in progress (thank you Gandhi). So I believe the solution here is to create positive, non-exploitative alternatives to capitalism. There are beautiful alternatives, and we have our whole future to find even better solutions than those we've already tried. I believe in human kind. I believe that if we put our heads together we can come up with something better than capitalism. Because no joke, capitalism is going to fail again and again - if it doesn't destroy our planet first.

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