Exactly, a significant portion of people aren’t able to argue about this in good faith and need to be walked through this long list of deep ethics questions in order to sorta meet the right answer.
The owner class doesn’t work the way we do. They go to private school from birth, their grades can be guaranteed or cheated. Their acceptance into schools is often a matter of being a Heritage admission and then paying full price or more for it.
We work for half the opportunities that are handed to them.
Well, if it were extrajudicial I would agree. Leopards ate her face. But this is our country’s judicial system. It isn’t wholly owned by the far right (though it’s wildly close).
I’m trying to point out that these fuckers are a different class above us. They’re filthy rich and they own us, that’s why they get paid hundreds of times more than us - they didn’t earn it. That’s just life.
I love this. We finally have a wedge issue. And Biden’s PAC just keeps pushing it. Put this in front of Repiblican voters, and some of them are gonna notice conservative politicians to be the power hungry, evil control freaks that we see them as.
Well I could do that job, too. But I won’t be allowed. Because I couldn’t go to the right school. Because I wasn’t born to rich parents. Because I’m working class, and they are owner class.
Socialism is the abolition of social classes. Regulating capital is usually called Social Democracy, or Marxism. Honestly, sieze the means of production.
I agree with the sentiment that this system is undemocratic. The electoral college in its current form is enpowering the ‘undecided’ voter in swing states to decide the election in the final hour. I disagree with the sentiment that a popular vote would simply disenfranchise conservative voters. See how other countries cope with direct voting and a higher level of democracy - more parties, coalitions, direct ballot initiatives, increase in amount of local representation.