World Peace Issues and Social Wellness- Class Questions and the US Presidential Elections

Social Wellness and World Peace Issues - Barack Obama, the US Presidential Elections and Questions of Class

Hi,

I found an excellent Huffington Post article that perfectly complemented a discussion I had with my sister in the US last night and this morning.

The article is entitled "The Election Seen Through a Class Prism: Why Obama Will be Our Next President" by Joe Lauria.

I found the following passages relevant to the transformation of how life will be organised on Earth within the next couple of generations:

There have been two extreme economic systems in the past century--Soviet-style socialism in which the government owns everything in a command economy and laissez faire or market fundamentalism where government has almost no role, which is what the Bush administration gave us. Both were utter disasters.

The middle ground combines both systems, mixing free enterprise with heavy government regulation to create the successful Social Democracy of Scandinavia and Western Europe, where average people have more freedoms than we do. It is not utopian. It exists and it has brought social peace and prosperity. They let you run a business too, but government corrals you with needed regulations, lest you get too greedy and threaten universal health care, free universities, long-term unemployment and other benefits for all citizens. Curbing greed puts a check on the army occupying foreign countries too. Some wealthy Europeans wanted to break free of this corral to be as rich as their counterparts across the Atlantic. But the collapse has turned even free-marketers like Nicolas Sarkozy back to Social Democracy.

And the ending question is a central theme:

Every 80 years or so these economic cataclysms occur, vindicating the Left who carp on the sidelines during soaring markets, waiting for a collapse since wealth and power are never voluntarily given up. This is a rare moment to rearrange priorities, to make the system fairer for more Americans. After all, isn't democracy the widest possible diffusion of wealth and power?

Here was the comment that I added:

Excellent article and comment.

I was a late teen during Michael Manley's socialist period here in Jamaica and that's when free education and steps toward free health care were established. We could talk forever about the problems of that era, but that is always the case in all periods of change.

Jamaica has a long and very proud history of trade union activity that protects workers rights. Women here can walk into any pharmacy WITHOUT a doctor's prescription, and buy birth control. Women also have free access to birth control at public health centers. Although not perfect by a veryyyy long shot, health care access is almost free here. All of these, and more, are required as a foundation for establishing true equality and access to power and wealth worldwide.

I wrote an email to my sister in the US just last night with a follow-up earlier this morning and the theme of our discussion was class issues in America and the world. I never understood why the US presidential candidates didn't really speak about poverty issues in this campaign until Obama started being lambasted for being socialist because he wants to cut taxes for persons earning less than $250,000. My sister says that figure is changing daily but whatever the figure, the idea is a start.

I thank Life Itself that Americans are now poised to be led by someone who will help to heal a few of these issues about access to power and resources so that the process of creating equality in basic ways can move forward. There will always be a 'rich' class but it has to eventually be in the context of everyone having the basics of good food, clothing, shelter, health care, education, money supply and full self expression.

Wherever we hail from, we are all citizens of the same world and we all have to 'live and play well together'. There is more than enough to go around, to share and to additionally provide much wealth to those who choose to create wealth for themselves and their families.

The what's missing is the will to collectively co-create use the resources we have been blessed with in a way that benefits everyone so that life on the planet works for everyone.

Again, I wish President Obama and Vice President Biden much love and support from all of us to carry out their mandate for the good of America and the entire planet.

Read the full article along with the comments left by HuffPost readers at HuffingtonPost and HuffPost news about Barack Obama.



Social Wellness and World Peace Issues - Barack Obama, the US Presidential Elections and Questions of Class

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