Do You Hear The People Sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
DJT ( and Santayana) are correct. "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it". But there is a difference between remembering and glorifying.
The protests since the end of May have an echo in history. In happens whenever one group tries to enrich
itself by enslaving another. The
shackles may be iron, as they were before the US Civil War, or economic, as they
were in France at the time of Les Misérables. Neither set of shackles should be glorified. In recent times in the United States, the shackles have
also been economic. While total wealth
and income has been increasing, it has been concentrated in just a few, while
the majority has seen their income and
wealth stagnant or falling.
It is not an imagined inequality. It can be shown that inequality has been
increasing in America both by income and by wealth. This is in contrast to the conditions in the rest
of the world, including places where inequality has long endured. The gap between rich and poor is decreasing
within most other countries. The gap in the United States has been increasing and arguably has reached a critical
point. Those of us who are invested in this system, must hope that the angry men will be satisfied with a reform of that
system which we will make by remembering and addressing our wrongs, and not that the angry men will demand the destruction of that system.
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