The purpose of a government is to serve its people - not thwart, punish, and disregard the needs of all but a few of them.

Jan 27, 2022 · 12:16 PM UTC

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Elitists do not speak for the working people/class. IMO your wealth-position are first and foremost a signal that you do will not support the working class in their struggle to get from under the noose of Capitalism
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The US government plunders its people’s wealth to fund conflicts that allow for the theft of even more wealth. It’s an absurd cycle of civic embezzlement and death.
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The purpose of a capitalist government is to maintain & expand capitalism. If you want something different, fight for socialism. youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyU…

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If we've got a new conception of 'people' since those days, maybe we need a new conception of government too?
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I watched The Third Man the other night. Graeme Greene. Orson Wells at one point has Joseph Cotton up top on the ferris wheel and says "Look at all those people down there. They're just dots to the governments."
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The purpose of Marianne Williamson is to tweet aspirational bullshit when it isn’t important but fall in line at election time.
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Then stop telling us to vote for either party (Team Blue, in your case) because both parties don't ascribe to that definition of government purpose.
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The purpose of government is to be a monopoly of violence against predators so we don’t form posses and round them up ourselves. I don’t need anything else in the way service.
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