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Japan has Sony. And Honda.

You gonna tell me I need to buy some texas instrument, or some generator made by a company that makes tractors in wisconsin? Forget about it.

I might as well throw rocks, and rub two sticks together.

many americans are perfectly ok with rich folks' misbehavior because they naively see themselves as being able to join them in the fun some day.

I don't think there is anything any one person can do. There are several individuals and organizations that are making positive changes here and there. Although I resent being part of the system, I am optimistic that the U.S. and humanity will make the changes necessary for our species to survive. The reason I am optimistic is because our system is designed for people to freely debate issues. U.S. history has shown that we usually do the right thing when the situation gets desperate enough. It is just a messy process because of the adversarial nature of our political system.

What I am doing is working at a minimum wage jot outside my field while looking for better paying work elsewhere. I am working hard not spend all my savings so that I will have the money to relocate because living where I live is economic suicide for me. I stay up-to-date on political events. I am going to get active in the Democratic Party to help make sure people who believe in regulation and a strong safety net are elected to office. A really important election is coming up in my state. I want to do more than vote because voting has very little effect. I also write my congressman about issues that are important to me. They listen to large outcries from the their constituents because they want to get re-elected. I am also pursuing a career that will help improve the lives of mentally ill people. It ain't saving the world, but it makes life a little bit better for people. I'm using the gifts I was given by my creator to help people because I know life is hard. If somebody didn't help me (a person with chronic mental illness) I wouldn't even be alive today, let alone have a college degree and a career.

that baby is deceased and the bathwater is toxic.

The super rich are throwing there money all over the place. It is a luxury. That is what they do, because they are super rich. You may be listening to too much Alex Jones or something. I hope you don't start telling me that the Atlantean, Mason, Babylonian, Illuminatian, super duper powerful, 13 family, Macdonald land people are going to take over Disney World, and controll the world from the Epcott Center.

so you say we should just lie down and let the morlocks eat us?

Have you been reading your well worn dog-eared copy of Das Kapital again?

it seems that half of the working class looks down on the other half of the working class, IOW half are deluded into thinking they are headed upwards and will soon be overlords, and so they scorn the downwardly mobile half of working classers for being living evidence that it just ain't happenin' anytime soon. talk of "defending the working class against the depredations of the rich" only angers these Richie-rich worshippers who just wanna turn their backs on their fellows thinking it will curry favor among the upper class they so admire. IOW, "east is east, west is west, and never the twain shall meet." there is just no communicating with these people.

/\ You mean the half of the working class that's willing to work looks down on the other half that isn't? Gee, I wonder why......