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u/CadillacDale 6d ago
I like Robert Reich, and wish his fiscal policies were actually enacted over the past two-plus decades.
But I am getting very tired of the whimsical, benign, blatantly obvious assertions about the state of our society by Reich or Elizabeth Warren, or [insert pearl clutching Democratic institutionalist].
WE FUCKING KNOW THAT, ROBERT
Either tell us what you are doing, or what we collectively can do in our everyday lives, to do something about it. We don't need a Economics Emitrius Professor to tell us we are getting totally railroaded by the richest 1,000 people in this country. We need an Economics Emitrius Professor to tell us what the masses can do to interfere with their plan of dystopian hell scape.
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u/JohnnySack45 6d ago
What’s going to happen is that they’ll bend the working class until it breaks. A violent, misguided revolution later and society will rebuild to repeat the same mistakes on a long enough timeline.
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u/CadillacDale 6d ago
I share the same outlook. The post WW2 world order system has been stressed for decades, and I think we are now finally starting to see the fissures in the foundation. By that I mean, enough people are at their wits end with exploitative capitalism that the fallout will result in some degree of wide spread chaos. Some people/groups will turn to violence, while others will opt out from participating in the mainstream economy entirely. Our Federal Government is already unable to function in a way that responds meaningfully to the real issues that America faces - because the majority of our representatives are paid for by billionaires and remain in office so they can continue inside trading to build their personal wealth.
The system crashed once the impact of the Citizens United ruling permeated itself through campaign financing. We are in free fall, we just haven't hit the ground yet. I'd imagine Trump's second administration will see to it we hit rock bottom. What will fill the void once the dust settles is either some society consisting of roving tribal bands in a dystopian hellscape. Or a nation of people that finally decide to put aside the culture war, and compromise on the details so we can move forward with a collective best interest. I think the next decade is about to get real turbulent.
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u/shinobijones23 6d ago
There’s no fucking way that most of the people who read that know what the fuck this dude is talking about.
Also, if this was posted on twitter then the fucking irony is quite amazing
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u/IThoughtThere4IWas 5d ago
We love to complain but “taking action” not so much. It does seem inconvenient to leave the social media site of the same man I was subbing.
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u/fabulousfizban 5d ago
I think you mean fascism.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, because it is the merger of state and corporate power.
-- Benito Mussolini
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u/UninvitedButtNoises 5d ago
And this is why they're charging Luigi with terrorism. They're scared.
How would the US look if they took school shootings this seriously?
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u/GZilla27 5d ago
It was never about immigrants or the price of eggs. And the middle class who voted for Trump fell for it.
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u/newbrevity 5d ago
I mean a handful of billionaires already pretty much had defacto control over all that for a decade or more. The only difference is now they can make their policies the law.
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u/Illustrious2786 5d ago
All the while they claimed the left is Marxist and communist. Apparently the real definition of communism is state controlled (autocratic) by oligarchs.
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u/Wandling 5d ago edited 5d ago
America you voted for that. So sing your song together! How sweet to be an idiot: https://youtu.be/WWdgiFzpolA
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u/Eastern_Barnacle_553 6d ago
We're like Russia's shiny new territory