"Wealth redistribution" is very much the wrong term. That means forcefully seizing what belongs to others and giving it away for free. If things get much more desperate than they are now, then with the tens of millions who would be starving in the United States, that would be called for. The elite have made sure to keep our heads just far enough above water that we don't need anything that drastic.

Unfortunately, they have only kept our heads enough above water that we don't need anything that drastic. Economic growth and social advancement in the United States are slowed to the bare minimum that won't lead to manors in flames.

What we need is not redistribution of wealth, but a revival of realistic opportunity. I don't mean having people beat the streets for years on end being told, "No," by every burger-flipping employer while their kids rarely eat, they hope CPS never discovers that they're homeless, and they're incessantly barraged with insults for failing to succeed where the narcissist Boomers have. I mean realistic opportunity.

That's all we need. It's all we're missing.

Globalization as an argument against it is a joke. Manufacturing isn't off-shored to lift people out of poverty. It's off-shored because that's cheaper, otherwise more than a trillion dollars wouldn't be hoarded where it does nobody and no society any good just for the sake of hoarding. And while capitalism does improve standards of living, manufacturing laborers in China are beginning to get supplants by new sweat shops in the Philippines, thus leading them into what will become their own crisis of opportunity.

And those off-shored workers? They do not have a good quality of life. Better than literally living in the wilderness, sure, but they're living hard, miserable lives. They're barely paid, mistreated, and are only lucky if they actually benefit from any of the economic growth in their countries. When the factories close, they'll be back to having nothing because all the gains go up in their society too. And the factories will close, for one reason or another, inevitably.

If we're going to improve anything, we need to end the utter deception that is globalization and bring manufacturing back home. We need to stop betraying our own people to "save" people on the other side of the globe. None of us agreed to that deal, and none of us were raised for it. We were raised to be a part of our society; not to be excluded while being threatened, condescended to, and insulted by the same people who exclude us. "Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself."

We don't need this to happen by force unless the caviar-fed robber-barons do not take heed and correct course. And if you count the mass shootings, firefights, riots, and protests over each of the most recent four year period, then you'll see that what I'm saying isn't a threat and isn't hyperbole. It's a warning.

Please don't reduce that to the tired, ridiculously worn out McCarthyism "redistribution" politican mindfuck con. It's not only a bad choice of wording; it's the exact baloney the establishment has used to frighten ignorant people as part of their engineering to get us in this mess.