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While a demosocialist nation may not be 100% homogenous, the minorities know their place. As a result, those countries do not have to deal with racism as it is practiced in the United States. Case in point. The overwhelming majority of the population is White. Just like within families, infighting among the same groups of people happens everywhere. Australia has an interesting history. The Europeans jacked the whole d8mn country from the indigenous people and relegated them to 2nd class citizens. White folks have been running the country for over 400 years. Then, there was the Stolen Generation where they took mixed race kids from their parents and raised them in orphanages. Since 1998, the Australians have been celebrating National Sorry Day for their mistreatment of indigenous people. Demosocialism definitely works in countries where over 90% of the population is homogenous and the majority rule it. 😎

I like the term @Michel Montvert uses...Demosocialist. It seems to work in Nordic countries. But, it also ties back to a homogeneous society. Capitalism and socialism can peacefully coexist. There will always be people who are more industrious and driven than others. They deserve to make as much money as they can generate. OTOH, there will always be people who need help in one way or another. Unfortunately, American capitalism was built on it's original sin and it has has been corrupted by greed. Then, the United States isn't homogenous either. A lot of moving parts in this country. 😎

When welfare was established back in the 1930s, it wasn't intended for poverty maintenance. Initially, welfare provided assistance to widows and working class folks to ease the burden of providing for their families. Welfare didn't become a way of life or poverty maintenance until the 1960s. Another by-product of that watershed time period. Fewer job training programs and shipping jobs overseas insured that under-educated and unskilled people would have a harder time finding work. This reality also insures despair, poverty, crime and addiction. A powder keg of negative forces. There's a reason a college education is so expensive and folks are pushing back against free community colleges and trade/technical schools. Colleges and universities have become big business. They pay tenured professors a hefty salary. They pay football coaches millions of dollars. The American job market caters to certain people. There's a finite number of slots. Meanwhile, welfare has gone from a hand up to someone working for a better life to an ankle weight especially for those who either don't want more and/or who don't feel like doing better. 😎

I wonder why White folks aren't complaining about their socioeconomic conditions instead of trying to overturn elections and worrying non-white folks stealing their stolen country. The system is designed to keep the poor, disenfranchised and marginalized separate. If all of these folks realized they shared similar interests and struggles and united, they could be a major force. Instead, the majority of poor and/or disenfranchised White people will gladly accept their station in life because they're still better off than non-whites. A homeless white person could clean up tonight and have a job, food, clothing and shelter in less than 72 hours. There was a video around here a couple months ago showing what it meant to be White in America. One unemployed White couple got a $100k line of credit. They told the bank about their situation and inability to pay the bill. Didn't matter to the bank. They were good for it. Meanwhile, a credit score of less than 750, an outstanding student loan and one jaywalking ticket will keep a Black couple bringing in $250k per year from being able to buy a condo because a bank won't give them a mortgage. Otherwise, I think it would be awesome if people united and started a movement to truly make America great...for the first time.😎

Yes. In many areas, cops treat white people badly. I used to live in L.A. I learned that if I needed to talk to an LAPD cop, find a black one, because the white and Mexican ones were obnoxious and hostile. I mentioned this to a black friend, and he said, "Oh sure, you're white! The black cops are nice to you! They treat other blacks like dogs!" I came to find out that this was true, that often the black cops were brutalizing black people to impress their white colleagues. If they split the stats for "whites" by socioeconomic level, they would find that the poorer strata have a LOT in common with oppressed non-white groups. In Albuquerque a while back there was a syndrome of cops shooting white homeless people. Very often it is no picnic being white. However, it is in most ways even worse for non-whites, which is why we pale-butts don't get much attention, and why those of us who are aware of this stuff don't push the issue, because we know that blacks, chicanos, etc., have bigger problems to worry about than abused white people. Of course, as always, my opinion is that we ought to all unite around all of this injustice. Many fingers, one fist, and all that... but I'm a naive idealist, apparently.

In order to accept and fear what so many people attribute America's turmoil to, one has to believe that there is an organized effort conceived and executed by a nucleus of individuals who are successfully manipulating the behavior of the population in collusion with the Government. Believing this means that you also accept the idea that if this was not the case, people would simply go about their lives, accommodating and interacting with their fellow citizens, practicing no racism, harboring no greed or desire for status, no hunger for power, and that the blame for this not being the case falls solely on the shoulders of the "they" who are routinely coordinating the actions of the many. You'd have to believe that human beings, if left to their own devices, would all get along and there would be no clash of values or culture, no dislike for the unlike. You'd have to admit that you resist taking the overview, or looking at the big picture, have to ignore that Earth's civilization is doing what it always does - mirroring the organized chaos of the Universe. You'd also have to ignore the idea that what you imagine sounds like the plot of a movie instead of the nature of this thing called Life. The Ancients experienced this, too. That is why they created mythology and religion, - why the heroes of these tales were those who followed their own star. When it comes to social media, I have always contended that its critics take it so much more seriously than they do and that, by now, its participants know enough to consider the source when it comes to the output of these outlets. FaceBook is not considered an authority on anything. Twitter is recognized as being politicized. These 2 and all of the others are forms of escapism. All but the most nave realize this and that they convey subliminal messages and can't be trusted.

Africa has always been rich from human capital (slave trade) to natural resources including diamonds, gold, oil, natural gas, uranium, platinum, copper, cobalt, iron, bauxite and cocoa beans just to name a few things. As a result, other countries waltz into and out of Africa taking whatever they want and leaving the African people with proverbial crumbs. Sure, a handful of Africans become wealthy in the process but overall, the entire continent of Africa has been carved up by outsiders. Unfortunately, for a thousand years and counting, Africans haven't been overly interested in closing its borders to foreigners.😎

Yep, Book Review: Guiou: The Other Blacks, Second Edition The latter group, known as Garifuna, arrived from Nigeria by way of St. Vincent where they blended with Carib Indians beginning in 1635 before migrating to Guatemala. By contrast, the former group was brought there to work the fields only about a hundred years ago by the United Fruit Company, settling in an area called Colonia.