privatization fueled feudalism

Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther and his friend and compatriot Philip Melanchthon in the development of a reformation community established a community chest for the purpose of collecting funds from the businesses and well to do in order to provide for a public education for all children in their town and vicinity. It was seen as carrying out God’s call for the establishment of a just society as well as caring for the least among us. In addition to public education they promoted and helped develop safe drinking water and sanitation, free medical care for all in the community and some of the first environmental laws in Europe. It is inconceivable to me that some five hundred years later people who stand in this tradition of protestant faith could support in any way any candidate whose policies are in direct contrast to these reformation practices of the establishment of a just society, and who in the process seek only to drive us back to an age of privatization fueled feudalism. Whether we call the benefactors of this movement master or lord, CEO or chairman of the board matters little. The goal is the same, the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few and the vassal servant hood, whether through law or economic subjugation, of the majority who serve them.