The Great Big Boat

Think of America as an enormous boat. In the front are 813 oligarchs, and in the rear 340 million working men and women. In the middle are more than 20 million millionaires who want to be billionaires. The people would like to move forward, but they can’t.

The problem appeared to be the enormous difference in the numbers. So many people in the back who wanted to move towards the front. However, after the super-rich brought their billions of dollars in gold onto the boat, the weight began to shift. As the riches grew, the bow began to slide deeper into the sea, and the stern began to rise. The working parts of the boat had been forgotten, and were no longer able to function as designed. The boat lost its ability to move forward. The balance of power had changed as its most necessary section rose above the sea.

This is what is happening in America today and worse. The working class is moving backwards, while our country’s oligarchs are paying fewer and fewer taxes and moving their outrageous wealth into offshore accounts. However, most billionaires are just plain stupid. If consumers can no longer afford to purchase their overpriced commodities, their beloved stocks will crash.

Elon Musk’s need to be in front of the television cameras has proven that great wealth and intelligence do not always exist in one man. He may be a good engineer, but he knows nothing about how to run a country, especially a country which once encouraged freedom and liberty for all as the most diverse nation in the world.

The truth is that both Trump and Musk were raised by fathers who were racists and bigots. Fred Trump instructed his rental agents to place a big, red, “C” at the top of applications offered by Black men and women. He approved or disapproved applications based on this mark.

Musk grew up in South Africa when apartheid was in control of his nation. As an adult he left his home, now ruled by Black men, and was allowed to immigrate to the United States. Now that he has used America’s tax laws to make a fortune, he is opposed to immigration by anyone who is not pure white.

Trump and Musk are at the very front of the boat. Trump for his position of power, and Musk because he was known as the richest man in the world. I, and millions of other Americans are at the very back of the boat because we are old and struggle to survive in a nation which is the richest in the world, but only for a few.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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