Over at Sadly, No!, A Simple, Non-Desultory, Non-Verbal Philippic

With interpolated "Shorter" translations.

Cerberus on systemic oppressions in the United States. A short excerpt:

But more seriously. On the moocher point… the right wing is actually on to something. This nation has genuinely been hit by an epidemic of moochers, people who have stolen great big chunks out of the economy and production in order to serve no real purpose or make any real difference in their lives other than to compete in a game of randomly increasing numbers with other asshole moochers.

All over the country, the hard-work of millions of Americans is stolen and abused by fear of unemployment and death in order for all the production that it creates to go to a handful of assholes who sit in a chair and pretend like they fucking matter. And those same people are in turn are marks for a group of even bigger moochers who just convince everyone to put their money in a great big casino they have rigged in their favor, when they aren’t straight up bribing congresscritters to make them richer.

These moochers steal the bread out of the mouths of children and do not even remotely give back an equivalent amount of value.

Which is the real reason why the right-wing is so loud about various forms of moochers, including literally everyone else.

Read the whole thing.  It's well written and takes to task corporations, conservatives, and the system.

Hat tip to Simon & Garfunkel for the idea for the title.