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Really, we're at a serious point in history here. Twenty years of conservative economic policies have resulted in the wealthiest country in the world going completely bankrupt. The richest 0.001 percent of the population now control a higher percentage of wealth than during any other period, and there have been a lot of really unjust eras throughout history. What was formally the largest and wealthiest middle class the world had ever seen will be fighting over food scraps in ten years, killing over them in 30.

Now, it's obvious to anyone who takes five minutes to think about it what is to blame. Conservative economics. De-regulation, what they describe as free trade, and an unfair tax system has predictably caused the disaster we are in now. The main economic principle that we have been following for the past two decades is designed to put as much money as possible in to the hands of the richest among us, and I'm not talking about Lensman or Oprah, I'm talking about the controlling class, who do not show their faces in public often. Not only is this depression we are entering the predictable result of their policies, enriching the richest was for a long time something they openly admitted was their goal (until everyone realized "trickle down" really was voodoo... about two months ago).

There is something we all have to admit. I know it's hard, because everyone has that conservative friend or family member they love, myself included. But it's gut check time. Conservatism is not a legitimate political ideology, it is a mental disorder. You wonder why all the conservatives on TV are crazy (Coulter, Hannity, Limbaugh, Malkin, etc etc etc), it's because anyone who isn't a multi-billionaire who would understand and yet advocate conservative economic policies is crazy. Some people are simply better at hiding it than others, but once you pay close enough attention to one of them, it becomes obvious. These are people who have been abused, beaten up constantly in childhood, or otherwise feel that they have not had a fair life... and they do not want anyone else to have one. Quite simply, they hate their fellow man. These people are against our society, whether consciously or subconsciously. They are anathema to social justice, peace, and prosperity. Throughout history they have fought constantly against freedom, equality, science, and anything and everything else that has the potential to improve human life. The world will never be anything resembling a decent place until these sociopaths are denied the right to be involved in government, science, finance, and every other important aspect of our society.

I am not in any way advocated Mao-like purges involving executions. What I am suggesting as the only possible way for western civilization to rid itself of this plague, is a serious purge of right wing people from any position of power, and the removal of their right to vote. Yes, I am advocating McCarthyism and the end of universal suffrage. On a side note, we don't have anything resembling universal suffrage now, history class propaganda aside, there are millions of ex-cons in the US alone who have had their right to vote taken away, and they're not the only ones.

This would have to be done on a national, state, city, and community level.

Every private bank on earth should be immediately shut down, their assets distributed between governments and populations. The leaders of said companies should be jailed for life, as should every one of their political enablers (almost every elected official in the United States, including Barack Obailout). Businesses run by current or recent supporters of conservative economics should be sized and either handed over to employees who have not also been purged, or closed. Every person who ever propagandized for these policies should also be jailed for live. Every other conservative who can be proven to have supported these policies should simply have their right to vote removed, and be barred from holding any kind of a decision making job or running any business.

Yes, these are drastic measures and no, they are not going to happen. But we are heading for desperate times. There is going to be widespread poverty, rioting, dying. The entire way of life we got used to, thanks mostly to the new deal policies which were passed the last time the population lost it and gained one iota of control over the government, is over. In the words of Ani Defranco, take away our playstations, and we are a third world nation. They won't actually come take away your playstation, but in five years, there just won't be any electricity coming in to your house to power it. Remember who to thank. And don't ever say no one ever suggested a solution that would end this kind of financial tyranny. Getting rid of those among us who actively work to harm society. One day, maybe in 20 years, maybe in 2000, mandkind will get in to such a desperate situation, such a horrible place, that rational thinking people will remove any influence of people who would prefer to see others harmed, namely conservatives. That day, society will begin to make serious progress towards social justice, equality, and sustainability. Until then, we're fucked. Grab your balls and get ready to take it up the ass folks, because what we're seeing now is not the hard part. It's the precursor.

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