This is quite a long article, but I hope you all will read it.

[Farmer-Rick]

46. Yeah, I think one thing is missing

From the essay. It's that filthy-rich Americans are funding the end of democracy.

I kept thinking why have Trump voters given up on liberty and democracy. Why was slavery so hard to be rid of in a country whose government is founded on equality? Why aren't we teaching a love of democracy in schools?

Because equality and democracy are the opposite of capitalism. Capitalism is based on inequality.

Your hard work and talents don't really count unless you can capitalize on them. You can be the smartest most talented person in the world but if you can't gain some amount of capital from your abilities, you will go hungry in a ditch somewhere under capitalism.

In capitalism, wealth builds wealth. Wealth isn't evenly distributed. It's hoarded, inherited and fought over by everyone.
Those born into wealth can grab up all the resources and push their political agendas. The lucky few who stumble blindly into a new technology, a new food, a new product can gain capital then hoard it from everyone else.

Eventually in capitalism, there will be just one or a small handful of filthy-rich people, while everyone else is poor and starving. Uncontrolled capitalism always ends up concentrating wealth on a few lucky people. That is the opposite of equality and democracy.

And the filthy-rich use all sorts of manipulation and cons to convince us all that democracy and equality are bad, And capitalism is good.

They have convinced a lot of voters that hoarding money and concentrating it in just a few people's hands is freedom, when it's just the opposite.