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

submitted by BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you from rogerboyd.substack.com

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[–]3andfro 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 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.