Marianne Williamson Instagram – The idea that corporate profits should be society’s bottom line is America’s fundamental moral flaw.
It is not just an economic or political wrong, undercutting as it does the idea of a just democratic society. It is also a moral wrong, paving the way for a few to achieve at the expense of the many. It infuses our society with the inevitability of suffering among millions and millions of people – those without healthcare, without economic or educational opportunity, without safety standards at their work, without safe communities and so forth.
Today’s corporatism is simply the latest iteration of the streak of moral darkness that has been with us from the beginning. Since the days of slavery there has been the impulse among us to put property rights before humanitarian or democratic values. The struggle between those who propagate and allow that, and those who oppose it mightily, is our national story.
Every generation has embodied that struggle, some more dramatically than others. Yet over time the moral arc of our history has indeed bent towards justice. Our ancestors responded to slavery with Abolition, to the institutional suppression of women with the Women’s Suffragist movement, to the Gilded Age with the establishment of organized labor, and to segregation with the Civil Rights movement. We’ve never manifest perfectly our own ideals, but millions have struggled and sacrificed so we could get closer.
It’s our turn now. | Posted on 02/Aug/2024 01:31:08
