Re: the meme here, there are a couple of caveats:

• Yes, but billionaires pay their employees slave wages, forcing them to have 2 – 3 jobs, sometimes meaning that they are on food stamps and living in their cars.

• Yes, but people, often war veterans, can’t afford health insurance and die agonizing deaths from treatable diseases.

• Yes, but white supremacy dominates huge swaths of the United States.

• Yes, but teachers are paid so poorly that they’re leaving their professions, and our population is becoming more ignorant every year.

• Yes, but our planet is baking because the billionaires in the fossil fuel industry couldn’t care less about the wellbeing of anyone but themselves.

• Yes, but the wars caused by greed and nationalism are killing our children.

Outside of this, capitalism is wonderful.

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Capitalism Is Great, But Does It Have Drawbacks?

As shown at left, there is a huge correlation between poverty (and lousy education) and support for Donald Trump.

With raises the question: why don’t the people who live in, say, Mississippi want to elect someone who will make their lives less miserable?

My belief is that the folks in these dirt-poor states don’t aspire to have more money.  All they really want is white nationalism, which Trump delivers to them in great abundance.

The Thought Process Surrounding Poverty in America

As most high school-educated people know, the values of the Democrats and the Republicans flip-flopped in the 1920s, as Democratic Party took on the mantle of unions for the working class, human rights, immigration reform, and rights for women and blacks, while the Republicans stood for racial segregation and a growing chasm between rich and poor.

So, we need to ask: It is more likely that a person with a medical degree doesn’t know that, or that he’s a liar who’s hoping that you don’t that.

Is Ben Carson Simply a Liar?