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« on: March 09, 2025, 10:17:17 PM »

Note 1: Bold text indicates screaming, and italicized test indicates gestures

Note 2: This speech should be read in a loud, aggressive manner

I would like to thank the American people for giving me the opportunity to speak today. Without the labor of ordinary citizens like you, this country have been dead from day one. No civilization—not ancient Egypt, not Rome, not the Han Dynasty, not the Abbasids, not medieval Mali, not America—can survive without the blood, sweat, and tears of ordinary citizens such as you.

Some facts of life are undeniable: the inevitability of death and taxes, the second law of thermodynamics, celebrities being exposed as morally corrupt people. But one undeniable fact of life that many politicians—particularly many Republican politicians, but also a few Democratic politicians—would rather you ignore is the degredation of living standards while wealth accumulates amongst the billionaire class, with benefits that never trickle down to the working class.

Almost all of you have been a worker at some point in your lives. Do you think executives and business owners always have the best interests of you, the workers, or the consumers at heart? Do you think executives and business owners unyieldingly prioritize the well being of workers or the quality of their products? If not, you have seen in action how the four-decades-long scam of trickle-down economics has worked. I do not care if you are blue-collar, pink-collar, or white-collar; if you are a worker, you almost certainly had experiences along these lines. Do you know to whom corporations are beholdent?—their shareholders. Very knowledgeable people in the stock market will admit that the primary obligation of a company is to provide their shareholders profit. However, few politicians discusses this, and there is a very sinister reason for this: to keep the working class divided.

Throughout history, wealthy elites have collaborated to scapegoat minorities to distract the populace from the real threat to the public: the aristocrats themselves robbing the public of their fortunes. The Russian Tsar promoted the anti-Semitic bile titled "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", which contains every single modern anti-Semitic trope, from banking being a Jewish conspiracy to Jews plotting to assassinate world leaders, to distract the Russian public from the root of their improvrishment: Russian feudalism and the nobility who perpetuated it. The Ottomans propagated similar hatred against Armenains. Both instances of scapegoating led to genocide, so we, as a nation, cannot take the scapegoating done by the wealthy elites lightly.

Our own country is not immune to mass psychological manipulation at the hands of the wealthy to keep the working class blind. Many wealthy elites—especially conservative ones—scapegoat immigrants for supposedly "taking American jobs". If you talk to any immigrant, you will understand the difficulties they face in obtaining employment. The wealthy elites engage in this fearmonger to distract the public from a simple truth: wealthy business elites always look for ways to cut labor costs, at the expense of workers, products, and consumers. *Raises up fist and stomps* These greedy elites have millions or billions of dollars, and they somehow have to sacrifice worker benefits and product satisfaction? Give me a break! These trickle-down tax cuts are pointless! You are not using them to benefit the workers; you reckless greedy pigs are using them to harm the working class! *Raises up fist and stomps*

There are many more examples like this. Poor, qualified Whites not getting accepted to jobs and top colleges? Wealthy elites will paint this as the result of Affrimative Action and not wealthy elites using their connections to send their children to the best colleges and find them the best jobs. A Muslim commits a terrorist attack? These wealthy elites will try to paint every Muslim as a terrorist! An LGBT person does commits a crime? Suddenly, all of these wealthy elites will fan the flames of homophobia and transphobia and paint every LGBT person as a predator. A single Jew is involved in a scandal? Suddenly, wealthy elites masquerade as populists and try to blame a shaddowy cabal of Jews for all of the world's problems. A woman accomplishes anything? Wealthy elites will fan the flames of misogyny and engender divisions between the men and women of the working class. All of this is happening while the wealthy elites rob you from your rightful fortune.

Nowhere is this dynamic exemplified more than in the relationship between our most recent Republican President, billionaire Donald Trump and his senior advisor, billionaire Elon Musk. Nepo baby billionaire Donald Trump and strange multimillionaire J.D. Vance make incendiary comments towards groups of people: Muslim people, homosexual people, Black people, transgender people, Jewish people, women; and socially awkward billioniare Elon Musk—the richest person on the planet—has destroyed welfare programs upon which low-income people rely in the name of "efficiency". *Stomps* The two of them work together to enact their agenda of destroying the working class while scapegoating minorities, and all of you should be well-aware where scapegoating takes you! *Stomps*

We will force these billionaires to stop robbing the working class! We will put leashes around their necks to stop them from harming workers and consumers in the name of efficiency! We will put leashes around their necks to stop them from ruining our environment! We will put leashes around their necks to stop them from using their connections to get their relatives into elite universities and jobs! The American people are waking up to an obvious reality. The enemies of humanity are not Jews, gays, Blacks, Muslims, women, Romani, or any minority; the enemies of humanity are the despots who rob the working class.

We, the people, will make the Republicans pay a hefty electoral price for supporting these billionaires through tax cuts and deregulation. *Raises up first and stomps* Wealthy billionaire business owners, you will pay for robbing the working class, and wealthy billionaire political operatives, you will pay for inciting racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic rhetoric that distracts the working class from the real enemy: you. *Raises up first and stomps*
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2025, 10:26:20 PM »
« Edited: March 10, 2025, 01:58:11 AM by Progressive Pessimist »

This is definitely the time to seize on "class warfare" as overtly as ever. This wouldn't have been possible with Trump alone, but his asinine decision to tow Musk along, as well as the capitulation of big tech to him-makes this an opportune time to promote class conciousness and resentment towards the business elite.
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2025, 11:22:09 PM »

I don't think any Democrat giving that speech will be going to any $10,000-a-plate dinners... which makes it a non-starter for the current Democratic Party.
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2025, 11:41:54 PM »

Maybe just maybe it could work with the right messenger, but right now it sounds like the kickoff speech of some communist college club event that gets record low turnout.
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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2025, 08:13:36 AM »

I’m pessimistic that any speech could win as long as things look good. The only reason that  the Dems have been relevant for the last 30 years at the national level is because their GOP predecessors crashed the economy.
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