Capitalism always reproduces a class of politically disenfranchised serfs to do the labor. The USA has typically maintained these serfs on the periphery - by forming partnerships w/ brutal regimes from China to Taiwan and Vietnam. [Research the condition of the labor forces who make Nike sneakers or Apple iPads]
However, the problem shifted from the periphery to homeland under Reagan who convinced the nation that we needed to lower the cost of production so that our capitalists would invest more and grow the economy. So we listened to him and we shrunk organized labor and we got rid of built-in cost of living wage increase ... and the Fed shifted from policies of full employment to austerity and... over time ... the wages of American workers shrunk and, through aggressive trade liberalization, jobs were increasingly shipped to freedom hating nations ... and, lo and behold, our capitalists somehow ended up with enough wealth to buy government . . . and our middle class died.
To make up for the middle class squeeze we created the most steroidal credit economy in history so that Americans could borrow enough money to survive. In short, we spent the last 30 years going deeper and deeper into debt to offset the prosperity that never trickled down. And now… the disenfranchised labor markets that once existed on the periphery have finally been reproduced in the homeland, which is what capitalism wants: cheap labor, a politically disenfranchised group of desperate serfs who will work for dog food.
Like a cloud of locusts, capital descended upon Washington and turned it into an ATM for the new plutocrats. How do they maintain their power? They pour money into think tanks and pop media in order to seduce under-educated voters with religion, patriotism, tradition, "family values", i.e., the culture war. Like the ordinary Germans who were seduced by Hitler's fabricated demons, the American right has created a block of paranoid revanchists who believe their country has been stolen by homosexual illegal alien islamofascist baby killing environmentalist multicultural atheists ... meanwhile the people who really fund our elections & staff government laugh all the way to the bank.
However, the problem shifted from the periphery to homeland under Reagan who convinced the nation that we needed to lower the cost of production so that our capitalists would invest more and grow the economy. So we listened to him and we shrunk organized labor and we got rid of built-in cost of living wage increase ... and the Fed shifted from policies of full employment to austerity and... over time ... the wages of American workers shrunk and, through aggressive trade liberalization, jobs were increasingly shipped to freedom hating nations ... and, lo and behold, our capitalists somehow ended up with enough wealth to buy government . . . and our middle class died.
To make up for the middle class squeeze we created the most steroidal credit economy in history so that Americans could borrow enough money to survive. In short, we spent the last 30 years going deeper and deeper into debt to offset the prosperity that never trickled down. And now… the disenfranchised labor markets that once existed on the periphery have finally been reproduced in the homeland, which is what capitalism wants: cheap labor, a politically disenfranchised group of desperate serfs who will work for dog food.
Like a cloud of locusts, capital descended upon Washington and turned it into an ATM for the new plutocrats. How do they maintain their power? They pour money into think tanks and pop media in order to seduce under-educated voters with religion, patriotism, tradition, "family values", i.e., the culture war. Like the ordinary Germans who were seduced by Hitler's fabricated demons, the American right has created a block of paranoid revanchists who believe their country has been stolen by homosexual illegal alien islamofascist baby killing environmentalist multicultural atheists ... meanwhile the people who really fund our elections & staff government laugh all the way to the bank.
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