Bernie Sanders says that corporations should be taxed for the AI they use to replace workers, and that the tax money be used to re-train workers, as reported by FOX NEWS here.
The above table comes from a U.S. Senate report (PDF) by a committee led by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The Senate report includes this graph below, which shows what happens when—as is the case today—real power is held by a billionaire ruling class:
What happens is that the rich treat the have-nots like dirt, routinely day in and day out, as illustrated by 25 concrete examples in my article here.
This is what happens when the rich remain in power.
This is what happens when the rich are, as Bernie Sanders calls for, “taxed more,” which means they are made to pay a modest fee for the right to keep on treating the have-nots like dirt.
This is what happens when the have-nots get “retrained” for who-knows-what-jobs and remain powerless in our fake democracy that is really a dictatorship of the rich.
This is what happens when we follow a mis-leader such as Bernie Sanders who REFUSES TO CALL FOR REMOVING THE RICH FROM POWER even though the vast majority of people would love to do exactly that, as I prove here.1
This is what happens when we fail to see that mis-leaders (who clearly want to keep the rich in power) use rhetoric (and Senate reports, etc.) to make it seem that they are on the side of the have-nots so that they can get the have-nots to follow them and make ONLY reform demands that leave the rich in power.
This is what happened when FDR used the New Deal reforms to keep the rich in power, as I discuss in detail here.
This is what happened when Nelson Mandela used the abolition of apartheid to keep the rich in power and make life for the have-nots in South Africa WORSE, not better, after the end of apartheid as I discuss in detail here and also here.
This is what happens when the vision of a GOOD society—an egalitarian society—is suppressed and censored in order to make us think that our class inequality society of some rich and some poor is the way it must always be because the only supposed alternative—Communism—is worse.
This is what happens when our mis-leaders never talk about how working class people in the past did in fact remove the rich from power, such as they did in a quarter of Spain in 1936-9, as you can read about here.
Let us remove the rich from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor. Here is how we CAN do it.
The point is this. The reason Bernie Sanders never calls for removing the rich from power is NOT because he fears losing votes if he did that; he’d actually get more votes. No. The reason Sanders never calls for removing the rich from power is because he fears what the rich would do to him if he did so, namely remove him from his senate seat (by hook or by crook) at the very least. We will never have a ‘Big Leader’ for a truly egalitarian revolutionary movement, as I discuss here.
While reading some politics the other day I bumped into yet another person who described various groups of people as “lazy.” Should a person wish to be taken seriously in any political discourse, they need to remove the word “lazy” from their political lexicon. The word lazy is a smelly old political trope of a word that is used to persuade a person, to stop a person from looking further into an issue, to quell any feelings of suspicion one might have when pondering the state of the world. Half the world’s population resides on an arc that goes from abject poverty at one end to living (if you want to call it that) paycheque to paycheque at the other. These four billion people are not lazy. These are people whose lives are being impacted by forces beyond their control and, when you investigate further, these forces, which are always profit-motivated, begin to show themselves as it’s impossible to hide from those who take even a cursory second look. As well, these profit-motivated forces are huge, bloated and slow-moving, too big to hide so they don’t bother trying. Only those who conclude their inquiry at “lazy,” which is exactly the point at which these forces want you to stop thinking, it’s these people who will never see the cause of humanity’s despair. Or rather, they see the cause as laziness.