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Robbie,
Poor people are generally not power hungry. Most are placated by a good football game on television, some beer and a cheap pizza.
Keeping the masses calm is not hard, and it is the responsibility of the power hungry people who lead them.
There is and old saying: Fat men don't fight.
If you provide an adequate standard of living for people they quickly become complacent. If you agitate them with hunger, ridicule, and endless amounts of monotonous labor they become much harder to manage. It costs us almost nothing to provide basic necessities for everyone in this country... But doing so isn't profitable. We need to see beyond earning a large markup on a 79 cent can of string beans and look at the advantages of not having hungry poor people.
The sooner we let gay people love whoever they want, allow adults to smoke pot in privacy, provide basic medical care for everyone who needs it and make sure nobody is starving or living in poverty, avoid sending our military out to mangle itself in unnecessary wars of choice, etc - the faster our nation will heal itself.
We are 'fucking with our own people' - who would otherwise be very calm, somewhat productive, much happier, more patriotic Americans if we didn't get distracted by moronic wedge issues being created by a tiny group of asshats who are raping our economy and creating real global insecurity for their own profit. People profit from prisons... It's slave labor for the chicken industry among others. People profit from illness. From old age. From war. We aren't imprisoning people because they are dangerous, we do it because it is profitable. Medicine for profit in many cases does not lead to better health. We are as Fuller said, beyond the need to compete over necessities. The only reason we do is that someone is profiting from creating a false scarcity where none actually exists. We ought to compete over luxuries and provide basic necessities to everyone... It costs almost nothing these days if done right.
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