No winners here!

The American Empire's Media garbles World Events to a degree that
even the most astute can be confused or distracted. But whether he is
a good guy or a bad guy, President Nicolás Maduro is as much the
peoples choice as Hilary Clinton's aborted victory was the choice of
the majority of voters in the USA.
What we are witnessing is an all out power grab by a power hungry
cartel stretching around the planet. This is the beginning of a
massive power shift, not from the current Masters, but the passing of
control from National Governments, to the newly forming Mega
Corporations.
In my simplistic view, we have the Ruling Class and the rest of us. I
call us the Working Class for lack of a better term. But this Class
is far and away the majority of human beings. The Working Class
divides itself, both through misunderstanding of who it is and by the
encouragement by the Ruling Class.
We have been subjected to capitalism for such a long period of time
that we appear to be unable to think "outside of the box". The Ruling
Class moves among us, bribing some, threatening others and encouraging
dissension among various factions. It's a giant mind game, and the
Working Class are presently losing.
We, the Working Class, are fooled by the appearance that some of us
can rise to the level of Ruling Class membership. Few make the
transition. But many are rewarded by their Masters, giving the
appearance that they are "better" than the rest of us. In fact they
are in a far more precarious position than the rank and file. They
stand to lose their favored position in event of an uprising. So they
and their sons and daughters storm to the defense of their Masters.
They become the advance guard, the front line of defense for the
Ruling Class.
Anyway, so long as we lust after the material position and the
appearance of the better life afforded by it, we will continue to be
at the mercy of our Masters.
The only solution to our dilemma, other than extinction is the total
transformation from a Capitalistic base, to a pure form of Socialism.
Since we have proven that the two systems cannot live together, one or
the other must go.
Imagine such a world. Imagine it because I doubt we'll ever see it.
We have been too contaminated by the sly simpering of the Evil Serpent
urging Eve to bring the forbidden fruit to Adam.
We are about to be thrown out of our Garden of Eden, Planet Earth.
But none of us will remain to wander about in the Wilderness. Even
the Wilderness will be lost.
Ah, the sweet scent of that Forbidden Fruit, Wealth, Materialism,
money and the power and control it can buy...at the expense of,
Everything!

Carl Jarvis