On this day in 1967 Revolutionary Che Guevara was captured by the Bolivian Army and executed the next day. In December of 1951, pre-revolutionary, he was an affluent, Argentinian medical student, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. He began a motorcycle trip throughout South American that took him from The Amazon to the Andes where he witnessed the horrors of poverty and social injustice. He made this comment about the residents of a leper colony in Peru: “The psychological lift it gives to these poor people—treating them as normal human beings instead of animals, as they are used to—is incalculable,” He dedicated his life to seeking justice for the poor and working class. You may disagree with his methods but hopefully you understand the goal.
So if we could arrange a motorcycle trip around the country for the elitist sociopaths that represent us, perhaps they can learn to understand the plight of those on the lower socio-economic rungs of life’s ladder. They would learn empathy and show some compassion for less fortunate humans and actually provide help rather than turning their back.
But billionaires may have to start paying taxes and we wouldn’t want to suffer that injustice so, never mind.