Black, old & poor Americans: Would you feed or defend them?
I'm currently reading Sebastian Junger's book, Tribe,
and on page 110 he says that the difference between human beings and
other primates is that we humans systematically share our food and
"altruistic" defense -- whatever that is.
According to Junger, "The earliest and most basic definition of
community -- of tribe -- would be the group of people that you would
both help feed and help defend." Now where, exactly, does America lie
on that particular spectrum? Apparently, we've gots almost no community at
all! Apparently national unity is dead in America.
If we are ever going to make America great again then, according to Junger's
criteria we need to include feeding and defending our fellow Americans
in that equation. And, boy, is that never gonna happen! Just look at
Ferguson, Dallas, Katrina, Baltimore and Philando Castile. Just look at
all the cuts to food stamps and attempted cuts to Social Security.
Just look at all the starving and homeless people we Americans pass on the streets of our cities every day. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/14/dont-call-him-bernie-anymore-the-sanders-sell-out-and-the-clinton-wars-to-come/
Just look at how America spends its wealth "defending" people in
Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. but doesn't
spend hardly anything defending poor people or Black people or old
people who are living right here at home. http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-led-economic-war-not-socialism-tearing-venezuela-apart/218335/
Black people get attacked by police. Old people get attacked
economically. Poor people are being chased out of town. Only rich
people in America seem to belong to a tribe. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45092.htm
Junger goes on to warn us that "Modern society has gravely disrupted
the social bonds that have always characterized the human experience."
What? Now Americans aren't even human either? Apparently not.
PPS:
On a national level, voters in this election cycle are finally stepping
up to defend old, Black and poor Americans -- finally realizing that they could be next in the corporate cross-hairs.
Remember how traditional
conservative Establishment Republican candidates used to fear that angry Tea
Party candidates would steal their seats? Well, now traditional
conservative Establishment Democrat candidates are starting to fear
that grassroots movements like the Bernie Babies are going to steal
their corporate-owned seats too.
For instance, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who has sold out to Wall
Street and War Street on just about every level, is now being seriously
challenged by Tim Canova https://timcanova.com/.
And Alan Grayson, a friend of you and me (not Wall Street), has taken
on Dem kiss-ass Patrick Murphy -- and Grayson has tremendous grassroots
support from grateful Americans who still love their country more than
$$$. https://senatorwithguts.com/
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