Unstainable, huh?

I keep reading stories about how the current level of income inequality, the current level of wealth inequality, the total inequity of it all and the immense privilege of the upper classes is not sustainable.

Bah, nothing last forever but I don’t see this changing for a long, long, very long time.

I mean it is a nice thought, good political slogan. That does not mean that the rich can’t stay rich for as long as they live. There will be no guillotines, no lynching of the rich, I doubt that we can even tax them punitively.

The neo-liberal conservative plutocratic oligarchic elites are secure both in body and in wealth.

You may have heard “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” While this might be, probably is, true, you have to read the fine print, “long” and “bends toward.” You see, things might be getting better but very very slowly and “toward” not “to” justice. Justice will not be achieved on any time scale not even in multiple millennia.

Don’t get you hopes up but don’t give up some important small things can be achieved in your lifetime. Hey, Donald Trump might lose this election and tax breaks for the rich might go away.

It might take decades, but it is about time to do something about the electoral college so that my vote in a presidential election might mean something. The votes of people who vote in deep red or deep blue states should matter. When I go to the polls it should be for more than collecting the “I voted” sticker.

TEK