The major Republican contenders pound their chest and proclaim they "want to take their country back". Back to what? Where? To include slavery or destroy the middle class? When they hear that the masses want a livable wage, they cringe and think :would I need to sell one of my 10 homes"?
I have finished one fiction book "A Place Called Freedom" and nearly through a history book "White Cargo, the forgotten history of white slaves". In a nut shell, A Place Called Freedom is about a coal mining town in Scotland. The "law" was understood that on the Christening day of a male or female the English Lord of the Land gives money to the family to bind the child to the mine for life. Families were always desperate for money, and they believed it was the Lords right. They believe they are born slaves to the Lord of the Land when in fact they were not and never were. In "White Cargo", in 1600 the King of England and the Gentry become overwhelmed and lost patience with the poor, unemployed and the orphan children who overwhelmed London. They started to sweep them up and send them to Barbados and the Americas as indentured servants and slaves. They were English Citizens, but unwanted by the wealthy. Most were sent without process of law. Around 1635 the Crown wanted Ireland for farming, and sent tens of thousands of Irish to the Americas because they wanted the land for farming and the land given to the Gentry. Something like our Govt giving land to oil and gas Barons.
Rand Paul, Presidential contender told a Senate Committee hearing on Primary Health and Aging that the elderly should look to charities instead of funding the Older Americans Act of 1965. All of the seniors will either no longer receive SS or Medicare or fend for themselves in the marketplace under Sen. Paul. He is blazing a more extreme Right attitude of "I have mine, You're on your Own" and added "I'm also taking what was promised to you". Why dump them into the Stock Market and commercial Medical Insurance plans? Simple: dump hundreds of Billions into the Stock Market and once again the Market will reach new inflated highs and our Gentry stocks go up too.
Do you see the parallel here? Citizens who worked and contributed to this Country, paid taxes and SS, and who through no fault of their own must look to the Federal Government for a peaceful end of their days. Paul and others ignore them and connive to steal their last hope of survival, Social Security and Medicare.
They're probably disappointed that our last 30 years of senseless wars did not produce the colonization of a country he and his brand could send these people like the King: out of sight, out of mind.
Look deeper into the rationale of these actions of both then England and today. It's harder to execute someone now because they want what little is yours, but it can be stolen with a simple signature of a State Governor or our new Federal Government of Corporate America.
Love your parents today, they will be kicked to the curb soon.