Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Best Trick of the Ruling Class

By Dan Hagen

Remember that "class warfare" that the rich constantly assure us they are not waging against us in America? Can you hear the detonations now?
The ruling class's absolute best trick is to create the illusion of a "classless society."
Unpunished torture, unpunished trillion-dollar financial fraud, unpunished spying on ordinary citizens, unpunished election fraud, unpunished ocean-poisoning, unpunished war-making based on lies — the so-called "rule of law" is something that the ruling class has risen above. That's what it MEANS to be ruling class in 21st century America. Law and ethics are for the peasants, to keep them in line, out of the way and ripe for further exploitation.
And no, rich people don't “give” anybody jobs. What gives people jobs is consumer demand created by decent middle-class wages. What rich people do is ship the economically illiterate right wingers’ jobs overseas while they applaud.
Actually, Republicans LOVE class warfare. They just don’t like it when the middle class and the working class fight back.
And when the Republicans have succeeded in destroying the social safety net and all American unions, and reducing the American standard of living to third-world subsistence with no benefits, just who will drive America's "consumer economy?" No one. It will be dead, along with the great American middle class. And without a broad middle class, no democratic republic can survive. PERIOD. End of the American story.
Despotism has been the rule for most of human history. It was 20th century America — with its broad, comfortable, public-school educated and accessible middle class — that was the exception, not the rule. And we've let the despots kill it by permitting them to bamboozle the boobs.

"If we were herded like cattle, there was a certain rough poetry to that. Wall Street has never needed less from ordinary people to generate its wealth, which is why corporate profits are so high during a period of massive unemployment and a decaying middle class. But it still needs us a little. Our labors and debts are still the raw material that Wall Street slices, layers, bundles, and sells for its financial instruments. Our household finances are to Wall Street derivatives what cows are to hamburgers."
— RJ Eskow


2 comments:

  1. The elite's government FEARS you!!!!!!

    Their fear is manifested in the laws they pass. Here is a law banning what MANY of the Founders wrote is a RIGHT of citizens when a government no longer represents them:

    Section 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

    Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises,
    o teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of
    overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or
    the government of any state,territory,district or possession
    thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by
    force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of
    any such government; or Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or
    destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues,
    circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or
    printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty,necessity,
    desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any
    government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts
    to do so; or Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society,
    group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the
    overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with,any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the
    purposes thereof -

    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
    twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by
    the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five
    years next following his conviction.

    If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this
    section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty
    years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any
    department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

    As used in this section, the terms ''organizes'' and ''organize'', with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes,
    and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.


    Corporate America is becoming increasingly more powerful and
    influential. Yet, according to the government of for and by the elites YOU,
    a citizen, have to accept whatever the government does with NO recourse other than voting...... and there is sufficient proof that shows to me voting is worthless since the entrenched power structure ensures that the emplaced elite class can not be removed.

    The Founders specifically wrote of the people's right to abolish a government when it no longer represents them.

    Tyranny is upon is!!!

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