Come to think of it, the message from both Charles Dickens and Karl Marx are indeed similar.  If one hasn’t read The Communist Manifesto, a reason may be the ongoing Red Scare warnings from Establishment.  Charles Dickens as yet has not been so vilified by capitalists.  

https://portside.org/2021-12-25/christmas-carol-and-communist-manifesto      –A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, and by the end of 1844 13 editions had been printed. It has not been out of print since and goodness knows how many theatrical, radio and film adaptations have been produced, including my favourite, Scrooge (1951) — the interplay between Alistair Sim as Scrooge and Kathleen Harris as Mrs Dilber, his charwoman, is a delight.There wasn’t long to wait for Marx’s bestseller, The Communist Manifesto, which was published a scant five years later, in 1848.It too has never been out of print. –end of portside info–
The day after Christmas the topic on C-Span is debt……the reason for the season?  How far from the exploitation in the time of Karl Marx and Charles Dickens have we traveled?https://www.c-span.org/video/?516898-4/washington-journal-news-headlines-viewer-calls    — DECEMBER 26, 2021 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 12/26/2021

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Viewers responded to the question, “What is your approach to personal debt?”–c-span info–
I heard Jen Psaki mention the public service loan forgiveness that feels like a reason to become employed by the government.https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service

Youngsters have been set up in our Pyramid-Scheme economy to feel helpless if they don’t earn a degree from an institution of higher learning.  With said degree in hand, too many regard themselves as instantly valuable employees which seems starkly false.  
Encouragement to take out student loans promotes a notion of superiority from capturing said degree, when training in a trade that may pay off better, provide needed professional skills that are salable in free markets, and provide autonomy for the individual.  In our local Upstate NY region, self-employed small business people with actual skills seem to be doing well.  They are also excellent people with whom to work.
Complication is the tool of authoritarianism.  Complication is where fraud can lurk.  As heard on a Rachel Maddow Show as she interviewed someone about something, she asked whether Democrats are playing checkers while Republicans are playing chess.  Her implication seemed to be the Democrats needed to Machiavelli-ize their “strategy” (my take rather than her words).  Thankfully the reply from the guest was, “we should all be playing checkers”.   (what fun would that be; where would we hide the corruption?)

And when the “seriousness” of civil society overwhelms, remember Mother Earth and nature—The FACTS are about man-made policy.  The joy is of the Creator in the form as imagined by each, whether Him, Her, It or Cause And Effect.  Nature is the manifestation.https://madmimi.com/p/77b0531?pact=25962-166016619-12747276216-108a0dfc9a74b9440e7976f85302c3957dadcbda        —

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We deserve better.      https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”

WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE–end of lwv info–Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!
Along with Climate Change, many people oppose the imperialism of the USA under control of the Republican/Democratic duopoly.  Use of the wealth of our nation should be to enhance quality of life for We The People rather than for imperialism.  Some people vote accordingly.I———————–That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.