So you say you wanna Revolution? Just one problem, you know the 1%? Many of them are psychopaths.

This rant was inspired by a clip of the bridge collapse over the Skagit River in the USA.

IMHO, this bridge collapse represents in one small event, everything that is wrong with Modern America.
For example, the US Society of Civil Engineers thinks it would cost about $26 Billion USD to fix the USA's infrastructure by 2020. That is less than a third of the money that is given every month to large banks by the Federal Reserve. Repairing the ageing infrastructure of the USA would create thousands of much needed jobs, all across the country, but no, the powers that be have decided that only the rich can get the money.
Why? you may ask. Well, it's quite simple.
You see, the main thing that causes inflation is known as 'the velocity of money' in other words, how many times a dollar changes hands for goods and services. To put it another way, if they gave that $85 billion a month to the poor, then they would start spending it on goods and services and inflation would rise, which would be followed by a rise in wages, then more inflation. The USG is keeping the rate of inflation artificially depressed by deliberately slowing the velocity of money.
The main way that they do this is by giving money to the banks, who then leave it with the Fed on deposit, or use it to buy equities, thus propelling the DJIA to new heights. However, the other way that you can spend money while making sure that it doesn't get re-spent is by spending it on bombs and missiles. Those are the best, since they are destroyed upon use and thus the money that was used to make them is also destroyed. To a lesser extent though, all military equipment takes money out of the hands of the public, since the military is not allowed to sell the equipment to the public, thus decreasing the velocity of money.
With real US inflation hovering at something like 10%, this is a very real danger. If they just started giving money to the poor, the dollar would inflate rapidly. However, there is one more problem with giving money to the poor.
See, if you give money to the poor, then they are no longer poor, which negates many of the advantages of being rich, such as the ability to make a waiter fawn over you for a $5 tip, or the ability to pick up a child prostitute who will let you fuck her for $10 so she can score her heroin.
The difference between rich and poor is not about money, it is about power and it always has been. The framers of the American constitution imagined the abolition of slavery, but alas, slavery is all too alive and well in the world today. If you don't believe me, consider this. It costs only $1 million USD to buy a congressman and only $5 million to buy a president. See, it works on all levels. In the same way that the fat stockbroker wants poor people at his beck and call, constantly hungry for the pittance that he gives them, the politicians are also hungry for what they see as the pittance that they are given by the Billionaires of the world. It's a cycle as old as humanity itself and as history teaches us, it eventually unwinds. When, no one can say, only that it does eventually unwind, since those at the top surround themselves with yes men. As many of the powerful can brook no opposition to their genius, they eventually fall foul of either the anger of those they oppress, or another powerful figure looking for a meal. Either way, you can bet that their paid advisers will still be telling them what they want to hear, right up until their destruction, because the toady knows that if he disagrees with his master, he is in danger. It is this fervent impulse to please, driven by the threat of punishment or death, that is, in truth, the greatest enemy of any holder of power. Since there is no way that the powerful can run their empire entirely by themselves and since they inevitably eliminate any voices who dare speak to them the truth, they wind up surrounded by a chorus of people telling them how wonderful they are, how well things are going and how every problem will soon be dealt with.
The irony, of course, is that the more aggressive, narcissistic and psychopathic the leader is, the more quickly he exterminates any people who would dare tell him the desperately important truth that could actually save them. A quick look through history at the world's greatest tyrants will bear this observation out. However, IMHO,  what people fail to realise is that for every Hitler, there are a hundred semi-Hitlers and for every one of them, a hundred demi-semi-hitlers, every one of them focused on their own power and nothing else. It seems to me that this is a plague that has stalked humanity for it's entire existence and not one I see ending any time soon.



You can watch the video that inspired this rant [ here ]