Protesting the Powerful

THE TWENTY WEALTHIEST COUNTRIES ON EARTH meet regularly to determine how to keep their wealth, cooperatively, if they can. If they can't, they'll find other means, probably war. The G20 is a billionaires club, a mutual admiration society of the exclusive, wealthy elite. They plot how to keep the teeming masses at bay. Their strategies, such as open markets lower taxes on the wealthy, invariably succeed, largely because most of the teeming masses do little other than teem and accept their master's decrees. Trump is merely the latest of America's corporate owned and controlled presidents. Trump and his Americans are simultaneously the dominant member, and the outcast. The dominant member by virtue of being largely the orchestrator of our current system of international corporate control. Outcast because Trump's complete lack of interest in protecting the environment and saving the world from climate change runs against every other nation on this planet, not to mention every sane person. Trump's protectionist nationalistic trade beliefs also run counter to the free trade beliefs of all other countries, and again, all sane people everywhere. Meanwhile, thousands of people, we the people, the workers of the world, gather outside the grand meeting hall of the billionaires club, and protest, usually chanting leftist slogans, sometimes resorting to violence, and engaging in clashes with police. As always, the protesters represent the correct position; human decency and equality, and as usual, the powers that be embody the evil viewpoint, that of greed, cut throat competition, and conflict. It is absolutely amazing that anybody could believe that people like Trump and Putin really care about anything other than their own wealth, power, and fame. Or that the world's cartels care about anything other than their own profits. May the world somebody be governed by the many, rather than the few, and may its wealth someday be distributed, if not fairly, at least sanely.