"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara

r/uncapthehouse

Our representative democracy is failing the people because it's primary mechanics are broken

Better question: what other countries are like this?

I'm not saying anything new here but rich people have what they want, and for them, it's on you to not be in your circumstances. There's no nuance.

the US is not one country.

the bottom 60% live paycheck-to-paycheck. they tread water just waiting for the misery to end. they are "transparent" to the rest. they are kinda no different to people of a 3rd world country.

so when you say "a country so rich" you are really referring to the top 40%. actually the wealth is only in the top 20% .. the other 20% have the american dream that one day they will reach this club .. except only a small number will realize it.

Compound issue. Lack of social safety nets and at the same time widespread apathy, both on the people who have power and the communities you mentioned

Usually racism/classism. It starts off as icky black poors, let’s move. Then it just spirals downward because generational poverty worsens things, I.e. whole cities without a tax base to fund their infrastructure.

But now people take no responsibility for their fellow people by saying municipal mismanagement. Thanks conservative scholar shits!

Because the country isn’t rich, individuals are the ones that are rich. And their responses is “Fuck you, I got mine.”

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It’s my design friend. Hail Satan

Do you know how many advance surface to air missiles can be purchased for a billion dollars?

It’s ok we just need to give Ukraine another 80 billion dollars.