A lot of people will not see things differently unless something life changing happens to them. Or if they witness something in real life that does not compute. Not saying that I want anything bad to happen to your mom, but that's just the way it is. If anything, I would ask her why she trusts corporations and billionaires to tell her what to think.
Here's something that usually trips up the NPC programming: Trump's efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and end endless wars. All the anti-war protests ended when Obama came into office. They were frothing at the mouth and calling Bush chimp-hitler for years before that. More soldiers died in the Middle East during Obama's term and nobody batted an eye. And we got involved in Syria and killed Gaddafi, droned villages and killed kids, and who knows what else went on. Now we have news that info was withheld from Trump so we could stay at war in Syria. When Trump announced the pulling of troops in Syria, I thought it was strange how the libs and conservatives were uniformly wailing about it. And none of their doomsday scenarios played out. It's cause they were all in on it, our ruling class profits from war.
Might be an interesting subject to bring up with your Mom.
Yes.. economies profit from war. How do you think the US got out of the great depression.. and even came with the Marshall plan to help Europe? Where did the money come from?
Do economies really profit from war?If there is bounty, then a country would benefit but the money spent on war always overweighs the money gotten from war.
No. Economies do not grow from war. Certain people make a lot of money, but that money comes from somewhere, whether it be taxes or a devaluation of currency via over-borrowing, or a lack of equivalent spending on other goods or services..
A lot of people will not see things differently unless something life changing happens to them. Or if they witness something in real life that does not compute. Not saying that I want anything bad to happen to your mom, but that's just the way it is. If anything, I would ask her why she trusts corporations and billionaires to tell her what to think.
Here's something that usually trips up the NPC programming: Trump's efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and end endless wars. All the anti-war protests ended when Obama came into office. They were frothing at the mouth and calling Bush chimp-hitler for years before that. More soldiers died in the Middle East during Obama's term and nobody batted an eye. And we got involved in Syria and killed Gaddafi, droned villages and killed kids, and who knows what else went on. Now we have news that info was withheld from Trump so we could stay at war in Syria. When Trump announced the pulling of troops in Syria, I thought it was strange how the libs and conservatives were uniformly wailing about it. And none of their doomsday scenarios played out. It's cause they were all in on it, our ruling class profits from war.
Might be an interesting subject to bring up with your Mom.
Yes.. economies profit from war. How do you think the US got out of the great depression.. and even came with the Marshall plan to help Europe? Where did the money come from?
Do economies really profit from war?If there is bounty, then a country would benefit but the money spent on war always overweighs the money gotten from war.
No. Economies do not grow from war. Certain people make a lot of money, but that money comes from somewhere, whether it be taxes or a devaluation of currency via over-borrowing, or a lack of equivalent spending on other goods or services..
It's called the Broken Window fallacy.