Why does this wonderful egalitarian man, like billions of others, SAY he wants to remove the rich from power? That’s what this post is about. Go here to see 500+ photos of more wonderful egalitarians in my postal zip code.
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A commonly expressed (by activists) answer to the question, “What makes people SAY (not just think) they want to remove the rich from power?", is this. When people learn how evil the rich people in our ruling class are, when they learn about the secret and shockingly evil deeds of the rich that are covered up by the mass and alternative media, THEN they get so angry that they decide they want to remove the rich from power and start saying so.
If you want to read about some really sordid hidden evil facts about the U.S. ruling class, here’s a great book, that was featured on this excellent radio show.
Amazon says of it:
Political Assassinations in America aims to debunk this ahistorical record. It shows that the struggle to gain or preserve political power in America has resulted in conspiracies that led to targeted assassinations―just like in other countries―which in turn have resulted in major policy shifts that were usually negative. A pattern of intelligence agency engagement can be discerned in many of the assassinations while a dense network of interconnected players across a range of high-profile crimes emerges, exposing the dark, thorough and very intricate complexity of American secret operations.
This book provides a rich trove for sleuths tracking down FBI/CIA conspiracies. Its notes effectively provide an archive of the findings of a wide spectrum of investigative sources who, over the years have been probing the official narratives’ holes, with their findings appearing in books, newspaper articles, and videos, yet remaining unacknowledged by an insouciant public and complicit officialdom.
America will not look the same to you after reading this book. Think of it as a companion piece to the Epstein files.
No doubt some people who do not initially think we should remove the rich from power change their mind after reading a book like this and decide that, yes, we need to remove the rich from power, and say so. And three cheers for books like this that make that happen!
But unfortunately I don’t think enough people will read books like this to result in a substantial increase in the number of people SAYING they want to remove the rich from power. I wish that more people would read such books, but it seems not enough people do so.
The first part of the answer is to note that it is very rare for people who would love to remove the rich from power to SAY this out loud to other people, on their own initiative. What is the case, however, is that when somebody, such as myself, says to them, “Do you think it is a good idea or a bad idea to remove the rich from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor?” (a.k.a. egalitarian revolution) most people (as my above-linked post proves) say out loud that it’s a good—or a great!—idea. What explains this failure to say out loud what one already thinks privately unless prompted by somebody who agrees with one?
I think the explanation is this. People, today, don’t think explicitly about the idea of removing the rich from power. It’s not an idea that they ever hear or see expressed in any of the mass or alternative media or by any politician or any pundit or university or think tank, ever. So, while there are lots of things about our society that anger people, such as the unaffordability of everything and the extreme economic inequality and the persecution of people by ICE and the use of illegal immigrants to keep wages low and our government’s support for Israeli genocide and its waging of an unnecessary war against Iran and so on, and while people generally understand that the root cause of these bad things is that we live in a dictatorship of the rich (another concept that is never expressed explicitly by those who control public discourse in order to prevent people from thinking it), people nonetheless, despite wishing the rich were removed from power, very rarely respond to what angers them by SAYING “Let’s remove the rich from power.” The rich have worked very hard to make sure those revolutionary egalitarian words are never in people’s minds.
How do people respond to the bad things that anger them? The rich make sure that there are various ideas “in the air” about what to do about these things—tax the rich, elect Trump to “drain the swamp,” elect Democrats or DSAers to remove pro-Trump politicians from power, get money out of politics, enact rent control, elect anti-war congresspersons, help people avoid capture by ICE, etc. But the idea of solving these problems at the root by removing the rich from power is virtually never expressed. It literally never even occurs to most people that it would be a good idea to remove the rich from power. Only when people hear the egalitarian revolutionary goal explicitly expressed do they think, Yes, that’s a good (or a great!) idea, an obvious idea; why didn’t I think of that before?
I call this kind of agreement with the idea of removing the rich from power implicit agreement, in contrast to explicit agreement which takes the form of SAYING to other people, on one’s own initiative, “We need to remove the rich from power.”
In order for lots of people to be explicitly SAYING to other people on their own initiative, “We should remove the rich from power,” it is necessary that that egalitarian revolutionary idea be “in the air.” This means that people see it expressed and see their friends and neighbors responding positively to it. (Making this happen is a chief goal of an egalitarian revolutionary movement.) What’s needed is that when people feel angry about this or that aspect of our society (as they almost always do), that they ALSO are consciously aware of the egalitarian revolutionary alternative that solves the problem at the root, and are confident that they are not alone in this regard and hence not afraid to say out loud, “We need to remove the rich from power!”
Most people are not going to read a book about the secret and shockingly evil deeds of the rich, and even some who do may not be persuaded that what the author says is true. But millions of Americans (billions of people generally) already are very angry at things about our society that they know about for sure from personal experience. We need to make solving the problem at the root, with egalitarian revolution, become as well known and talked-about an idea as the non-revolutionary ideas currently in the air about what to do about the things that anger people. Then there will be millions of Americans (and billions generally) saying out loud, “We need to remove the rich from power.” Then these people will be thinking about how to actually do that (as I discuss here.)
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