What The American People Are Beginning To Understand About The Lies They're Told

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[–]3andfro 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Thoughtful piece; ty for the post.

After the success of the Occupy Wall Street protests, that focused on class struggle, the “woke” thermostat was turned up to boiling by the elite-controlled media, the elite-controlled state and the elite-controlled corporations; the classic divide and conquer tactics that had always worked in the past, this time on the basis of “identity”. But this let rip the toxic post-materialist, post-modernist brew throughout a society where so many were damaged by nearly four decades of neoliberalism, stripped of their identities as well-paid competent workers with futures, or even stripped of the hope of that for the younger generations. Desperately competing with any weapons available for the few remaining “good” jobs. ...

At home, the US really only had a period of economic dominance in the post-WW2 period which quickly faded as other countries rebuilt their economies. The US elite may have become significantly worse in the past few decades, but they were never the best. It’s easy to appear to be brilliant when you have a gun in your pocket and your opponent has a plastic fork. The US elite have never needed to be brilliant because they have been so lucky; that time is now gone. The Russian, Chinese and Iranian elites have certainly not been lucky, and therefore their competence level is far, far higher.

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

After the success of the Occupy Wall Street protests, that focused on class struggle, the “woke” thermostat was turned up to boiling by the elite-controlled media, the elite-controlled state and the elite-controlled corporations; the classic divide and conquer tactics that had always worked in the past, this time on the basis of “identity”. But this let rip the toxic post-materialist, post-modernist brew throughout a society where so many were damaged by nearly four decades of neoliberalism, stripped of their identities as well-paid competent workers with futures, or even stripped of the hope of that for the younger generations. Desperately competing with any weapons available for the few remaining “good” jobs. ...

My bolding emphasizes what many of the people I talk to realize about their country, and the government that betrayed their good faith in order that they may harvest the "trickle down" wealth associated with serving their corporate masters at the peoples expense.

Our futures were sold as commodities on a trading floor, and replaced with the "ideas" of a more prosperous future, working in the jobs of tomorrow that never materialized to the extent that could support the majority, who struggle to survive the rentier class burden put upon them by the lucky few who won the birth lottery in the greatest demockracy the world's ever been the victim of.

[–]3andfro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup. Our society has changed, as has the economy. Those who run things no longer need to value what large numbers of folks have to offer--and destroyed public schools as venues that reward independent thought and teach civics to dumb down entire generations in an attempt to quell unacceptable insubordination defiance like "hell no, we won't go!" And STILL those badly served younger cohorts can see what's going on and, in many cases, where the blame lies, unlike their (formally) better educated peers.

Even David Stockman came to repudiate trickle-down economics.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And now all Russia et al has to do is sit back and wait for the US to make yet another bad move.

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The real “diversity” problem stems from the post-Occupy Wall Street identity politics mayhem that has now invaded so many institutions. Deep down the US elite has now ruled nearly effortlessly for so long it cannot comprehend of a real competitor, as Russia will be soon be “rubble” and China will “inevitably” collapse. So, no problem with letting loose an extremely disruptive identity politics as long as the ownership class keep owning. The owners are slowly waking up to the fact that Russia and China (and Iran) are not following the script, and therefore we may see a rapid reversal of the worst aspects of identity politics. The departments whose name is an anagram for DIE may be doing just that over the next few years. As Aurelien has noted though, there are now legions of PMCs who have happily failed upwards as their failures have served the owners (messed up foreign nations can be very profitable for example), but they are not so useful when the homeland needs to be rebuilt and allies strengthened. They are the troops of the last war of the US on easy street, but now the street has gotten rough and a much tougher breed are required. But they are generally not available, and any that are may want to go back to their own nations given the increasing racism and state-aggression toward Asians.

Huh...

Me and /u/BlackHalo were just talking about this over on Reddit...

[–]3andfro 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Spouse and I were just talking about Werner Erhard [edit: of EST fame] and the role of salesmanship in creating a pyramid scheme of profiteering for the few at the top. It's been a model for the commodification of everything since Reagan's era celebratingf material excess. The bulk of people today are valued more as consumers than workers [edit: or as having intrinsic value at all]. Communications across media platforms from govt, academia, and business are marketing messages; we're being sold daily, on ideas more than products. The marketing of ideas and "realities" is the same as for material goods, and the techniques are being refined by the day.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Good riddance to that awful harpy. Once upon a time it was cool to be a girl gamer; now it's a contemptuous trope.

Feminists invariably make things worse for actual females.

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh gods, the fact is that harpy was the prelude to the deluge of identity politics.

8headeddragon showed me how that was connected and it was just like this post pointed out where it made everything worse as people fought over disappearing jobs.

But the subs dedicated to identity attacks, cancel culture, harassment and everything else was insane. They've dried up now but it was crazy how they showed so much disdain when you disagreed and them being on the losing side of an argument really infuriated them.

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you talk to anyone at all about what you see happening around you, it's not at all uncommon that people recognize that they have no power to affect change for the betterment of society with a government that's been bought out from the city council to the state department.

Despite what our owners media would like the majority of us to believe, an ever growing number of citizens are beginning to understand why the rest of the world is eager to disconnect from the U.S. and it's rules based order.

What happens to us as a nation in the near future is anybody's guess, but I fear the Great Depression of the last century will be looked upon as a cake walk compared to what appears to be on the horizon for us... Assuming our idiots don't decide they can win a nuclear war.