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[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago

So first: The ultra rich are still apart of the problem. That is not in contention.

I am disabled and on fixed income, I bring in less than 1200 a month. So yes the "upper middle" class looks very rich to me. And of course I'm envious of them, they can afford good food, amazing housing, cover and sudden expensive hiccups of living, they get to travel, they get to see more of the world, they get to do more. All things I dont get to do because I gut unlucky in the zip code and genetic lottery.

You want me to be kind and nice to a people who look at me as a leach in society and would like nothing more than to see me disappear?

Also, if you are really upset that I think rich white people don't deserve respect, these are the 2 faced people who would hire minority servants.

Also I can't uplift the poor if I'm part of the poor. In the civil rights movement, there were and still are smaller fish in the shit scale, but who's actions do still damage to the lower classes and minorities.

I'm the type of guy who would point out that Martin Luther King Jr. Had a connection to the Rockefellers.

If I had those 6 figures, I'd be putting it to making sure my husbands family had enough money to raise thier 3 children full time. If I had that kid of money, I'd make sure my cousins saverely autistic child receives the care and attention they need.

But I can't get those 6 figures because I was born in a body that dosent make enough energy for normal living.

I'm calling out the nonsocialist democrats who hold the old guard. I'm calling out those who don't listen to the poor because they are not in it.

But sure, the sole problem alone is 100 or so ultrarich mofos, surely ending them will solve All the problems... /s

You can kill the big weeds, but the smaller weeds will come back and haunt us once again. Civil rights movement to Regan, to now, it keeps repeating and it gets worse or is a different flavor of bad each time, this problem runs deep and has many roots. I don't have a solution, I'm identifying the problems. (note the plural, there are multiple problems all working to stop us from achieving our shared goals of lifting the poor and ending evil people)