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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: What's Wrong With America Looking More Like Scandinavia? [View all]whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)lives. Here's how this works...
A cop pulls you over for broken tail light.
When you protest, he punches you in the head, shocks you with taser and adds resisting arrest, etc etc
Then you have 1000s of dollars in fees, fines and most likely a prison term.
Then you rack up more charges because u can't pay the fines.
When you finally get released, you still have the fines and a mark on your permanent record.
As a young adult you literally have no hope, no future.
Should you start a family with our justice system handing you a lifetime of poverty?
What do you do?
Now, if you decide to start a family it will be complete hell with no job and no chance to help your own kids get ahead.
How will you earn money for rent, food, etc? The options are bleak. So, you join the underground economy.
What's the lesson to be learned here?
And if there is a child in this family, he/she grows up seeing how perverted and cruel the justice system is when applied to poor people.
Even worse, they watch how our public officials get down on their knees and kiss the asses of the rich.
But it gets even worse.
Now as bad as employment situation is for the poor, Obama is pushing to send even more jobs to Asia.
And Hillary? You have got to be fucking joking. Her $300,000 a speech bullshit is the problem not the solution.
This country is seriously, irreparably sick.
I suspect there will be more protest actions in years ahead and they won't get anymore polite than they are today.
The rich cannot keep taking and taking and taking from the middle class and below.
And at some point we will run out of cages to house poor people.
History has proven, without exception, that there is only one eventuality.
Police are militarizing for war. NSA and CIA are spying on us for "our safety".
Things are going to get worse for most of us. Much worse.