Capitalism Hits Home: U.S. Empire Falls. Families Fail. Why?

[@mizztotal]

12:44 "If you were white and male in the U.S. after WWII for a while you got what was called a "family wage". Which was a wage high enough to support a dependent wife who worked for you full time and to support children as well. And between 1820 and the 1970's each generation of white male led families did better than the previous one." So what happened in the 70's??...gains from the Civil Rights Movement. America had ample social safety nets in place UNTIL they would've had to give them to Black Americans. What we're seeing now is the result of a nation mired in anti-black racism and greed cutting off its own nose to spite its face. It's far beyond time for it to end.

[@jgalt308]

Actually FDR gave you fiat in 1933...and the gift of permanent inflation... to the entire world. From 1930 to 2012, Total Government Revenue Grew from 11.1 Percent of GDP to 26.4 Percent of GDP and Total Government Spending Grew from 12.1 Percent of GDP to 35.6 percent of GDP

[@PeterMaranci]

It was never "our empire". It always belonged to the rich. We were just the peasants whom they temporarily allowed to live here.

[@TacticalMayo]

We don't even see it as a empire because we're not commies.

[@pausereflect5911]

All whites benefited. Always and still elevated above other colors. All whites accepted and looked the other way and continued to benefit. OTHERWISE it would have not 🚫 lasted for centuries. Even NOW the whites don't 🚫 want it to change, voting in racially motivated Nazi parties. Until all whites vote for a fair, just and truthful world, then it will have to be brought in by fights and w a r s.

[@AlanDavidDoane]

Thank you, Dr. Fraad, for your excellent analysis and invaluable insights. You are truly a national treasure for workers and their families.

[@lionrulethejunglewithoutfe3207]

It's good to have you back Dr. I always look forward to hearing and learning from you. Keep up the great work, Thanks.

[@larrysherk]

How did China get ahead? Part of it is that the US has wasted trillions on stupid, useless, and deadly wars. Another part is that China has a lot to teach us about how to start up new business transactions.

[@MrLuisamartinez]

Other reason is: capitalists GREED! All for 0.01 % and crumbles for the other 99.9% of THE PEOPLE!

[@xenuburger7924]

My aunt worked at a factory where they made London Fog raincoats. She had to train the Chinese factory workers for when management shut down the US plant. Of course the price of the raincoats didn't go down.

[@elainegoad9777]

I bet the quality went down.

[@leftykeys6944]

Dr. Fraad, a few of the people whose videos I access online have become beacons of light to me. Their hard-won wisdom and intelligence resonates with me, and helps my own perspective. And you, Dr. Fraad, are one of those people. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

Corporations have dropped Americans like a used up, dry raisin. Currently developing countries (plump grapes) like China and India, will realize that their people have backbones and will demand better work situations. They want the unions they saw grow the middle class in America. Again, corporations will outsource the well paid union jobs to the NEXT up and coming developing countries, leaving China and India shriveled and dry and empty. (Like America) Edited for grammar

[@Who_Let_The_Dogs_Out_10-7]

I watch this channel and have learned that China has a bigger GDP (PPP) than the USA. They're bigger than us, but, yes, still developing, so we'll be joining them soon enough.

[@jgalt308]

@@Who_Let_The_Dogs_Out_10-7 Actually they're all done...capitalism doesn't mix with tyranny and left the U.S.decades ago.

[@helengarrett6378]

​@@jgalt308what? That post makes no sense. What are you smoking, Gault?

[@jgalt308]

@@helengarrett6378 That things don't make sense to YOU is par for the course, even the simple things.

[@Don.M.]

Capitalism is malignant

[@mad-adam]

Great to have you back Dr! Your compassionate words and wisdom are welcome in these troubled times. 🙏

[@helengarrett6378]

China got so strong because we sent them all of our manufacturing sector. Our privileged class is using their low wage workers to enrich our oligarchy and their own Chinese emerging privileged oligarchy This move to give away our manufacturing sector did not help American workers. But it helped China. Oh how it helped China! If the world accepts capitalist autocracy with just enough socialist programs and benefits to keep workers slaving away for their capitalist masters as an economic model then the world is making a big mistake. I can't see how The world's working people will be better off with autocratic countries leading the gobalized world economy. I can't see how I as an American working class woman am going to have an easier life if China succeeds in breaking the American economy and also the American hegemony and democracy becomes an obsolete idea worldwide. As for Russia selling oil, I just recently read that despite India's membership in BRICS they just recently refused to pay for oil in Chinese currency and instead preferred to pay for it in American dollars. Was that report incorrect? I don't think so. Given that American corporations have used cheap foreign labor and incidentally have been abusing foreign workers just as they routinely abuse American workers. They use Chinese capitalists to do it for them. I don't see how my fellow Chinese workers are advancing socialism in China. In China, just as in the United States, workers do not own the profit from their labor. Workers work for wages just like American workers do. There are two kinds of people there; bosses and workers. All the decisions about what to make and where to make it, how much to sell it for and under what conditions workers work are not made by the worker. The bosses make those decisions. I learned that from Professor Wolff. Workers don't keep the enterprise's profits among themselves either. Just like right here in Capitalist America rich industrialists, the military and, politicians are getting rich while workers are tools to be used by that special class for their power and pleasure. But the biggest difference between American capitalism with absolutely no socialist sector, if the bosses have anything to say about it, and Chinese capitalism, which does offer some socialist programs sometimes as long as workers shut up and work like robots, is that here our Constitution does include the Bill of Rights and the First Ammendment in particular. We maintain at least a theory of democracy and we don't have a Supreme Leader for life. We do not have total autocracy here YET. China seems to be working very hard as a society to accept autocracy and to refine it. Political disappearances, citizen punishment for dissent, arrests and poisonings are all used to force compliance in China and Russia too. Autocracy is a nasty idea that seems to be having a worldwide resurgence and even here we are in serious danger of losing the remnants of the Democratic ideal. Even here we are getting too close to it but there is still hope for true democracy in government and hope for unionization which is a step toward workers having rights. In China there is a huge trend for young couples to have fewer or no children. This isn't an only American phenomenon. Most advanced industrialized countries are experiencing demographic decline. The populations of many nations are aging. China's autocratic government is offering financial rewards for families to have more children reversing previous demands for fewer children during the one child drive. It does not seem to be working among working age adults. These decisions and the propaganda surrounding the autocratic decisions about family planning are made top down in China, not among people according to their abilities to support children, to raise and educate them and still be worked hard by the society in which they live. By that, I mean by their bosses who are the privileged Chinese people and who are so hard for government to control. Usually the capitalist class, the rich and privileged, end up controlling the politicians by buying them lock, stock and barrel. Xi is concerned when he sees the inevitable corruption and class privilege emerging as it must under capitalism. But he can't control China's capitalists and their growing rich industrialists, even as he cracks his big autocratic whip. They are going to do what capitalists do. They speculate, they accumulate and they become a force that is uncontrollable and because of that the economy becomes unstable. Politicians become the tools of the rich in China just like here in America. China is not corruption free, though this is never discussed by lovers of the Chinese style of capitalism with a few socialist characteristics. All of you who listen to these true believers of Chinese success must recognize that though China has developed very fast, the direction of that development is toward dictatorship with capitalism as the main force propelling the economy. I'm hoping for something far more socialist with much more worker autonomy. I think the workers should own the means of production and they should own the profits therefrom. They should be more independent and use democratic processes to govern themselves. Democracy and socialism is what I hope for, instead of capitalism, with socialist talk but capitalist practice with its boom and bust cycles.

[@markusseah6803]

Thanks!

[@peterjol]

Almost all problems could be solved by making it financially worthwhile for people to SHARE the jobs we would agree we NEED people to do and working much LESS....People worked to meet their needs BEFORE money was invented and even if it's still using money it would take us back to primarily working to meet our needs, the true reason we have to work. instead of the way we are now all working and doing anything we can think of FOR money.

[@floundermüther]

Exactly what I’ve come to realize lately… and especially true in the context of AI. I feel like we get to a spot where AI will replace so many jobs that there wont be enough to go around. What we should do is take the existing jobs at that point and like u say share the workload, but 0 shot that happens. It will be all of the skilled/tenured workers with the jobs, and everyone else is literally screwed

[@anthuanramani7672]

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[@lisayoder5686]

Could not agree more! As much output for employers in half the time should allow for full employment at good wages, for most everyone! If only the money people would realize that in the circle of life, their money contributions are the LEAST important aspects in most people’s lives. It kills the drivers of hope for the future, it kills creatively which, not only got the arts, but for ideas to blossom into intelligent leaders of poorer countries’ brains’ to figure out new and better ways to enhance life in their own countries! Hoarding an individuals’ account worth the equivalent of a country’s gdp HELPS NO ONE and HURTS EVERYBODY! Even themselves. This idea that nothing would ever be invented again if there wasn’t the aspirational saga ending with being a billionaire’, has GOT to go! No one puts (or should go, anyhow) their ideas into motion for monetary sake, except for the demented (by design, on purpose) brains of the finance sector which has only destroyed, NOT improved, life on earth for everyone! But since they see themselves as the only worthy recipient of everyone’s money and labor for all of our economic health, I don’t know how anything can ever change. Since they surround themselves with only cutthroat yes-men who support that idea (for themselves, therefore brown nose their way to the inner-sanctums for purely selfish reasons) and law makers to help to force their selfishness onto the rest of us, who knows if realism can even burst thru that false, unnatural bubble

[@oldreprobate2748]

One of the precepts or tactics of unfettered capitalism is that there must be a level of unemployment to support corporate and investor profits. The presumption is 30%. Now the corporate and wall street lobbyist are calling for upwards of 50%. Theres a video documentary about 'How Japan Ate the Rich'. There are solutions,however they rely one us the voting public to drop all the corporate BS propaganda that has us decide between we and the other. If we could manage that, and vote in working class representation into public office who's first and only object is the peace and tranqility of all humans in the United states, and to that end, around the world; that just might end the practice of sending our children to foreign soil to fight the wars that the military industrial complex corporations insight for their profits. An interesting and informative read can be found on the internet that explains the unfettered capitalism that we have today 2023. It's the Lewis Powell Memo. A letter written by soon to become Associate Judge on the Supreme Court. The letter was intended for, and sent to the Chairman of the United States Chamber of Commerce. It essentially called for the corporate domination over United States democracy. When I examine it's content inline with our governments deregulation of corporations, wall street, and banks over the past 63 years, and the exorbitanttax cuts for them through legislation at all levels of government, federal, state,andlocal; I can determine that Citizens United was the second to last nail in democracys coffin. The final nail is being pounded in through gerrymandering, and the continuation of the unconstitutional Electoral College. Our ability to vote is the last visage of our hold on democracy,and we had better start using it more sanely towards our own best interest.

[@jflipkinkel8189]

People were also enslaved to provide for there needs if that. Humanity has been enslaving each other since at least Egypt which is close to one of the first ancient civilizations

[@Celis.C]

5:13 I'm going to nitpick here, but there are no 'winners' in a war, only survivors and opportunists. War, by definition, is a lose-lose situation. To say that there are 'winners' implies that it is somehow a competition, and I, for one, find that in very poor taste.

[@kevinschmidt2210]

The oligarchs win every war, regardless of which countries lose the wars.

[@Celis.C]

@@kevinschmidt2210 they aren't "winners", they're vultures

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@Celis.C Yes, the oligarchs who win at being vultures during times of war.

[@Celis.C]

@@kevinschmidt2210 what I'm referring to is those participating in a war, not those exploiting it from the sidelines for whatever insidious gain

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@Celis.C Then just say cannon fodder. Of course they lose. That is the point of starting a war and not personally fighting in a war.

[@sizzla123]

Appreciated. Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. ~Friedrich Engels

[@donluisguerra7286]

I often ponder about intellectuals and critics in this culture. There seems to be a number of assumptions that are never questioned and thus cloud their "criticism" or analysis of why we are where we are today. Too much reliance on "western indoctrination" systems. Lack of a much wider world view limits their analysis. There is also a "fear" of being labeled anti-(a)merikkkan that seems to make them practice a form of self-censure. The US of America from its founding was designed to be the Merikkkan Empire. Racist to its core, predatory in its economic outlook and practice. It has committed genocide fueled by its Judeo-Christian Calvinist religiosity. This understanding is often ignored by these critics because it may also point to their own personal religious and culture backgrounds as a cause to the existence of this empire.

[@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052]

Thank you Dr. Would you consider bringing on Gabor Mate? I feel like you two would have produce a very insightful conversation.

[@frizellruckerjr3968]

Dr Fraad, This is the Plain Truth. Painful, but What we need.

[@wer113]

Thank You!

[@earthsystem]

I'm so glad to hear from you again dear heart.

[@irinabass1655]

I presume the divorce rate got higher because women could afford it, unlike in the previous years, when she totally depeded on a man financially

[@bernardheathaway9146]

Thanks!!

[@julieweiner1623]

Thank you so very much for your videos.

[@Nine-Signs]

That cup is special.

[@rickyreynolds9902]

Oh boy I love her great information but damn that cup of hers would crack me up every time I looked toward it! 😂

[@tanujSE]

As marx said family realtion have turned into mere money realtion

[@Teddyclaws]

All empires fall. They seem to last shorter and shorter times these days.

[@bonitajanssen745]

🌟EXCELLENT VIDEO🌟

[@vivalaleta]

What if we had a system where every company was required to sell it to the employees before offering the sale eksewhere?

[@TennesseeJed]

I am glad you are back!!

[@picandvideo]

Thankyou ! 🙏

[@josephschaumberg4136]

Thanks for coming back and podcasting.

[@pfcwells522]

Wait am I misunderstanding what she saying? It's almost like she's inferencing the world has gone mad because only the US can be the dominate geopolitical power. And what the whole focus on rhe white male thing about and family structure? Is she intentionally ignoring the other part of the population?

[@helpanimals-]

The channel is very pro china and pro russia which is fucked up. Anyone with a brain understands the danger these 2 countries pose

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@helpanimals- What are the dangers? We're always up for another good chuckle from someone with a brain suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

[@drsmetal2747]

I'm laughing at the coffee behind her. 😂

[@avtarsingh8948]

Nice message on the cup, by the way.

[@oliversmith9200]

Yep.

[@serenevoice4765]

Love that cup!

[@georgesampson2228]

My son has health insurance and his two kids cost him 30,000 + dollars.

[@quantumgoddess7870]

😮wow

[@theopantzaris6939]

As it says in the good book, to those that have it shall be given!

[@Marxist2]

Great episode. Thank you.

[@vivalaleta]

Wow, the way you describe what wives used to do sounds almost poetic. I never considered much of it. You have a way with words.

[@nicka731]

That mug needs to be on the merch page ☀️

[@comradeinternet467]

I like the coffee mug, both for its message and its capacity.

[@shellb1633]

'Missed you ❤

[@Isisthered]

This might mean more if you talked about the difficulties men confronted as well. Men are and were a part of families and deserve fair coverage. All men didn't help around the house and raise the kids? How about talking about families that didn't have the advantages of a white male workers income? This just feels wildly disingenuous. More like its dealing with middle class white women's issues of the day and not seriously discussing families and why they are not staying together now.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

In general, take communists, feminists with a pinch of salt; and stay away from conservatives.

[@vg7985]

You just hear what you want to hear, not what was really told. She talks a lot about men problems mostly from economic perspective as she’s Marxist, and Marx theory is built on economic relationships between capital and labor. Men helping or not helping at home is secondary problem. You have to be financially viable man to have a healthy family, and it’s almost impossible for many men.

[@urimtefiki226]

You fight to have big yachts, I am fighting form my creative work to know who stole it?

[@MaryBeth551]

Yellow coffee mug🌞 ☕ 😅😂 love Dr. Fraad! She is right on!

[@marcseghatol6583]

Brilliant

[@marcseghatol6583]

Excellent

[@VultCult]

Great mug.

[@KimEKooMD]

You got it so wrong about China. You acted like USA made China powerful: that is such total nonsense and you need to correct your facts. China became powerful because it is run by a Communist Party and put people first. China’s power did not and cannot come from US largesse and investment. If that is the case, why didn’t other countries where they are US investments also become powerful???? You should use this podcast to contrast what socialism candi to bring about prosperity to its people vs capitalism and imperialism which have become moribund, and is the cause of US being a failed state now.

[@vchavez75]

The family is the lowest form of government...no family, no government.. thanks!!

[@kennethb4990]

Dr. Harriet Fraad is a ray of f×××ing sunshine!

[@francoisjackson]

Nice coffee mug

[@7hx89]

Professor and dear hosts at DaW - Recommending Abby Martin, a very resourceful opinion leader. Would you be able to put together an interview or a special edition of Abby Martin, an insightful and independent journalist? She is extremely vocal and articulate about the fallacy of MSM and the devastating US hegemony, and has been following the developments in Middle East since a few years ago with her feet on the ground.

[@bernadofelix]

Every day we encounter novel challenges that have become the new standard. Although we previously perceived it as a crisis, we now acknowledge it as the new normal and must adapt accordingly. Given the current economic difficulties that the country is experiencing in 2023, how can we enhance our earnings during this period of adjustment? I cannot let my $680,000 savings vanish after putting in so much effort to accumulate them.

[@hersdera]

It is advisable to steer clear of cons that appear improbable. Seeking guidance from a fiduciary advisor can be helpful as they are highly skilled in their field and can provide tailored advice based on an individual's risk appetite. While there may be unscrupulous individuals, there are also remarkable ones with a positive track record.

[@SandraDave.]

How can I reach this adviser of yours? because I'm seeking for a more effective investment approach on my savings

[@hersdera]

My advisor is Margaret Johnson Arndt; I found her on a CNBC interview where she was featured and reached out to her afterwards. she has since provided entry and exit points on the securities I focus on. I basically follow her trade pattern and haven’t regretted doing so

[@Goofy8907]

Can't you do a shorter video talking about the family structure and how and why its nonsensical If you made like a 10 min or less video on the key points, we could more easily share it and the knowledge surrounding that topic which unfortunately so many today are completely lacking

[@musiqtee]

Well, the description of our political economy (term most shy away from) is the same across OECD/Global North. After 40 years of telling each other that governments (and their institutions)are bad, and private corporations (and ditto institutions) are “effective” - we simply got what we asked (voted) for. Did we (age 35+) actually understand what we asked for? Did we really think that small B2C business could benefit from raging financialization? Did we believe that a massive financial growth and corporate ownership would “trickle down” on the majority of waged employees - blue or white collar? The answers are all “yes” - and we (majority of voters through 40 years) were obviously wrong. And, we still believe in the current liberal model of “free choice” and ditto global economics. That model doesn’t serve any majority of people in any “developed” country, just as it never (!) served those we looked down on - literally every region outside of north-west Europe and the US. And NOW we’re hoping to be rescued by nationalistic Ideals, with “strong men” leading us? When in history did that go well…? Just wondering… 🙄

[@1aikane]

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[@lukeolson5177]

Wages are indeed a factor for why nobody starts a family anymore but I think the bigger reason the family unit has collapsed is because of social media and specifically dating apps. I'm debating free and own my own house and I'm still very much an incel so money isn't the only answer to why American men are now obsolete.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Indeed, but I'd say it goes way further back than apps. The genders broke up awhile ago, only the few or the idiotic still pull it off.

[@kevinschmidt2210]

Speak for yourself, Incel boy. Your obsolescence is my gain.

[@lchaney]

I guess I'm the few or the idiotic, but I have nothing really to my name financially and have no problem dating. I do not use the apps, I do not go to bars. I meet people through hobbies and shared interests.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

@@lchaney Meeting people is not the biggest deal. But I'll say if you're the outdoorsy type, as opposed to people who just go outdoors now and then, that seems to simplify things. Let's say "extroversion".

[@urimtefiki226]

My family has failed since Apr 2020 now is very bad that is hurting you? Taste it and feel it but the same as me, fight for the food, paying electricity bills. Stay in the cold in the winter, Corona time no work no patients, just suffer and no one answers my concearns. I would be happy to see the same in your side now, not only that I will laugh.

[@urimtefiki226]

With the ruthless people be the same no compassion.

[@stickitupyourasteric]

Its called APAIC and Israel.

[@markmccormack1796]

I can only suggest more of a concise presentation. You repeated yourself which takes up time and folks lose interest.

[@davidevans6618]

Now I answered your question, and what do you have to say about it, nothing ?

[@jgalt308]

Sorry, no free questions are permitted by Democracy at Work...

[@davidevans6618]

@@jgalt308 well if they ain't free to question then their as good a fooked.

[@jgalt308]

@@davidevans6618 Oh, plenty of people ask a lot of questions here... but all of Democracy at Work sites are "recruitment site" for the pay-tree-on site...and if you pay, then you can ask a question. (but then it must be "chosen" and then Wolff gets to frame it to "fit" the answer that is "his narrative".) Mrs. Wollf doesn't get to play...but at least hubby managed to get her back on. Facts are never allowed to intrude upon the "fantasy" that is the narrative here.

[@davidevans6618]

@@jgalt308 the problem with 2 masters is you can have common sense and no COMMONS CENTS on Dictatorship ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY IN ANY SPHERE 🕛.

[@davidevans6618]

@@jgalt308 capitalanthropists, I had to make that word up myself thru observations.

[@Buckzoo2030]

Imagine capitalism without colonization. Could be as successive without colonialism or predatory behaviors?

[@joeburly]

Colonization is required to feed the infinite growth machine.

[@MendeMaria-ej8bf]

Didn't know that the US have been an Empire up to now!?

[@joeburly]

Really?

[@MendeMaria-ej8bf]

@@joeburly Really. Never heard of the United States as being an empire. Instead they are often referred to as the world's oldest democracy, which is the opposite of an empire.

[@joeburly]

@@MendeMaria-ej8bf yes. That’s is propaganda. The US is definitely and empire. Of note are the 750 military bases in 80 different countries.

[@yvonnem.langlois5197]

suggested reading or videos by late Chalmers Johnson, Alfred McCoy, Noam Chomsky, I could name many more, but that's a start. Chalmers predicted what would happen if the U.S. didn't dismantle its empire. 800+bases around the world, WTO, WHO, IMF....

[@hannahglenny6134]

❤

[@duggydugg3937]

national debt id the biggest danger ⚡ default on servicing the national debt will trash the econ , globally!!!!!!

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Thank goodness for those rare older feminists who can talk about a male crisis without saying, they did this to themselves, that they are the patriarchy etc. That sort of talk will only produce MORE crazed gun toting men.

[@ejazrasool7443]

The Law of Requital is working... when nations go against the laws, they decline and disappear ... the US is no different. Want to read more... What is Islam? By G A Parwez. Chapters 6 and 13... good for the mankind at large. We want peace ... warmongers must go...

[@lilypang7590]

A rear voice of America, a good lesson.

[@lilypang7590]

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[@davidevans6618]

Because your telling stories and not listening 🕛.

[@bluewater454]

To answer the question about China, you might ask another question - What made the difference between the Chinese economy that thrived, and the Cuban economy that stagnated? 🇺🇸

[@jeffmason2691]

The US is not able to sanction China like it did Cuba because China is too big and powerful.

[@yvonnem.langlois5197]

U.S. embargos.

[@bluewater454]

@@jeffmason2691 China became “big and powerful” because it opened up its markets to trading with the United States and other western nations under deng xiaoping.

[@bluewater454]

@@yvonnem.langlois5197 Exactly. The United States trades with one socialist country and embargos the other.

[@caseyczarnomski8054]

Sorry granny, but as a mid 40s white male I never expected a wife to stay home, watch the kids, clean the house , cook me dinner, and be ready for sex whenever I wanted. I expect a woman to be an equal, not a servant/slave. Your claim that women should be servants and slaves to make men happy is very much in error .

[@kevinschmidt2210]

You never expected to stay home either and do all that stuff. But when did she say women HAD to stay home? I can't find it in the video. Or is the error yours?

[@VampireTuesday]

The US hasn’t fallen lol

[@bonitajanssen745]

It has. You just refuse to see it.

[@VampireTuesday]

@@bonitajanssen745 Yes that’s me. Mr. Stubborn.

[@bonitajanssen745]

@@VampireTuesday No time to be stubborn any longer~ BOOK OF REVELATION IS COMING TO PASS

[@VampireTuesday]

@@bonitajanssen745 okey dokey

[@bonitajanssen745]

@@VampireTuesday Don’t believe it? Go to the top of the comments’, and read mine.

[@bluewater454]

Over simplified as usual, but that is something I have come to expect from marxists. Any societal problem is always blamed on one thing - capitalism. The decline of the family has accelerated in the United States and other western countries. And we can see a direct correlation between the decline of the family unit and the decline of American society. And not so coincidentally it has been leftist approved and promoted policies that have contributed directly to the decline of the American family. Leftists make no bones about their disdain of the traditional American family structure, so there are no surprises here.

[@bonitajanssen745]

GREED has caused our downfall, it it will get worse and worse ~ DONALD JOHANN DRUMPF 666 AMERICA IS MYSTERY BABYLON BOOK OF REVELATION IS COMING TO PASS

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

It certainly is GREED. Capitalism is its vehicle.

[@bluewater454]

@@Pallasathena-hv4kp Greed has been around since the dawn of time. The decline of the American family is a slightly newer phenomenon. The only way you can seriously connect the two is through Marxist ideology. Regardless, it’s always good to hear from the Wolff clones. Thanks for sharing. 🍻

[@bluewater454]

@@bonitajanssen745 Marxists remind me of Nazis. To a Marxist, every problem is blamed on capitalism and greed. To a Nazi, all problems are blamed on Jews. All extremist ideologies tend to oversimplify complex problems. The “cause-all” explanations will vary between the different ideologies, but the same simplistic mindset is used.

[@bonitajanssen745]

@@bluewater454 Nevertheless, it is written ~ THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL THE Holy Bible

[@whatsupcoolbrother]

Nice coffee mug