Serving In The Military Is No Longer About Protecting Democracy. It Is About Protecting Billionaires

[TheMastersNemesis]

right to exploit workers and suppress their right to a decent wage. So why bother. We have become a country not worth serving until there is economic justice.

[Earth_First]

1. Haven't you heard about Loyalty Day?!

Disclaimer:

[Scuba]

2. This is not new, except the billionaires used to be "only" multi-millionaires.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. The Only Thing Our Soldiers Are Protecting Now Is The Freedom To Work For Starvation

The condition of labor and employment in the US today is as bad as it was in 1900. When the trend is that 80% of the population will be working for dirt wages, something is wrong. The only thing that is not happening to pro labor organizers is the are not being murdered yet.

[malthaussen]

4. "No longer?" Where have you been?

Hell, Smedley Butler wrote a book about that 80 years ago...

-- Mal

[FarCenter]

5. "Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)(1964)

These actually are not just Communist truths: they are universal truths about how political power works.