Preface: I'm sure I'm speaking to the choir here at C99.

Think for a moment, when our “founding father's” wrote the first constitution, only white property owners could participate (vote / run for office) in the “political” process. Chattel slavery and indentured servitude, were normal and legal in the colonies. (most anyway)

So, in a nutshell, you had to have money, to buy property, in order to participate, in the “political process”. So, the very foundation of American politics, IS, based economics. You must have money to participate.

We can even go back further, and clearly one can see the “economic” opportunity of a country with few indigenous inhabitants, and abundant resources to “plunder”, ie that is to say acquire with little or no cost. At that time in history, one of the most “valuable” resources a one could own, was land, and then slaves to work that land, for little cost.

While our founding fathers have been exalted through out history as wise, noble, intelligent (and a heck of a lot more adjectives), yet for all their positive attributes, they failed badly to live up to the integrity of their ideas, and at the root of their integrity's fail, was the “economic consequences”, of the “purity” of their ideas, most especially the idea, that all men are created equal.

Think for a moment, if all men were created equal, then that would imply it would be wrong to buy and sell other people, and wrong to plunder (theft) another people's land without just compensation. For all our founding father's brilliance, they couldn't deal with the economics of their “idea”, that all men were created equal.

If our founding father's eliminated the slave trade and indentured servitude, and compensated the indigenous people fairly for the plunder of their land, the slaves for their enslavement, the economic foundation of the colonies would have collapsed and America might not have never existed.

Now, fast forward to today, and think about the SC debate. Only people that could “afford” a $1,750.00 or more “ticket” could attend the event. The general public, well fuck you.

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Think about Healthcare, if you can't pay, you die. That's the Mafia's business model, is it not, pay or die?

While we have laws now against several forms of discrimination, racial, sexual, gender, etc, but economic discrimination is perfectly legal. Economic discrimination is what is used to make laws against homelessness. Economic discrimination is at the heart of a criminal justice system, ie cash bail, cost of an attorney or expert witnesses etc...

Economic discrimination is what our “elected” representatives utilize when deciding how to regulate business and corporations, based on the negative “economic” impact to the volume of economic activity from business / corporations, generated by the implementation of safety regulations, however the negative impact on human lives barely ever registers as a “concern” by our elected representatives.

Economic discrimination is what is utilized to run oil and gas pipelines across / through indigenous people's land in violation of their “sovereign rights”. Economic discrimination is what allows a president to bail out criminal bankers that trashed our economy.

Higher Education is a form of economic discrimination. Student debt, which can not be discharged in any bankruptcy, is economic discrimination. Charging money for an education is economic discrimination.

Think for a moment, during the early years of our country, salve owners would kill slaves that showed signs of intelligence. Raising the price of “education” to a level most “poor” people can not afford, and you accomplish a similar result. Keep the population ignorant.

For many, even the simple act of voting is economic discrimination, since voting is usually performed during the work week, interrupting, and even negatively impacting, our “economic” abilities. Not all of us get compensated for time off to vote. Many have to try and vote during their lunch hour, at a “economic” cost to the individual. What happens if the voting booth location has moved, and one has to wait several hours, but is under threat of losing one's job if one takes too long to cast their vote?

Do you “economically qualify?”

If one doesn't earn enough money, one can not “qualify” to live in an apartment. Want to keep the riff raft out, just raise your rental rates. Our “target market” is the more affluent.

Gee, the more affluent, who get away with killing 4 people while driving drunk, and afflicted with Affluenza , ie your parents are so rich, they never taught you right from wrong, so the judge lets you off with probation, for manslaughter.

Why do the rich always tell us, work gives a person “dignity”, yet they do everything in their power to generate enough wealth so their children will never have to work? The result of which, produces off spring like this Affulenza kid, or any one of Trump's off spring, heck, Chelsea Clinton or Hunter Biden. Their only moral compass comes loaded with dollar signs.

Gee, no one is talking about what is going to happen to our credit scores, which, is an "economic" indicator of the ruling class's definition of "credit worthiness". Gee, who decided that it's ok, for a hospital to charge a patient 47K dollars, for a problem that was no fault of their own, and force them to pay it off in 30 days, OR, they will ruin your credit and send you into financial purgatory for the next 7 years. Who decided that it's ok to ruin someone's credit for 7 years? Why 7 years?

Gee, just try and talk to your creditors, they don't give a shit. It was the "government" who gave the shelter in place / stay at home / close all non-essential businesses. But that won't be a "valid reason" your late on your payments and most creditors will still ding your credit score, to move you down the economic ladder, so everyone else knows they can economically discriminate against you.

Gee, while everyone is freaking out about the "social scores" China uses to discriminate against their population, credit scores in the US, are the same fucking thing.

The boom bust cycle of American capitalism cleans out the poor and allows the rich to pick assets up cheap. The 2008 financial crisis was no different. The current crisis is no different. The "majority" of Americans still haven't figured this out.

Just remember this, America was founded by white supremacist thieves and murderers, so it should be no surprise to anyone, that the normal activity of the ruling class is to steal and murder people. That, IS, the America way...

And now since our "people's champion" has moved to the dark side, I really don't see any hope there will be any escape from the continuing economic discrimination at the heart and soul of this country.

Until the 1% feel the heat of death or poverty, nothing will change. America will continue to economically discriminate and destroy the lives of millions of our fellow citizens.