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Cassandra posting
Posted over on the New York Times, waiting for approval.
Barack Obama, Phone Home
Obama is going to sit back while the "bipartisan" commission (which is entirely made up of people who will absolutely NOT be dependent on Social Security when they retire, and will certainly NOT have to delay their retirements one day later than they wish) guts Social Security. And the Democratic leadership will join the Republican leadership in letting it happen, with perhaps some faux howls of rage to fuel fundraising efforts.
And then in twenty years, when being old is synonymous with being desperately poor (as it was back before Social Security was implemented), most Americans will follow FOX News' lead in blaming the poor themselves for their poverty, rather than the obscenely wealthy monied class and corporations whose greed destroyed America.
Just as only Nixon could visit China, only the Democrats can destroy the New Deal and the Great Society. It's political suicide for them, but nonetheless they're doing it, piece by piece. Why? It's either sheer stupidity, or (more likely) they've decided to throw in with the winners in our long class war: the owner class, the billionaires and large corporations.
And after all, What is the public going to do? Revolt? The most any of them will think to do is vote for a third party, which is why billionaires like the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch have thoughtfully provided them with an ersatz third ("Tea") party to divert and defuse any real possibility of change.
We're witnessing a tragic experiment. The American working class is being tested to destruction. Will the complicit media manage to confuse and bamboozle an uneducated and ignorant public into internicene warfare? Or will the public, in the end, finally wake up and turn on the plutocrats and media moguls who have decided that the middle class and poor are expendable? I wish I knew. Either way, the results will be very ugly indeed.
George Carlin said it best. It's called the American "Dream", because you have to be asleep to believe it.
Barack Obama, Phone Home
Obama is going to sit back while the "bipartisan" commission (which is entirely made up of people who will absolutely NOT be dependent on Social Security when they retire, and will certainly NOT have to delay their retirements one day later than they wish) guts Social Security. And the Democratic leadership will join the Republican leadership in letting it happen, with perhaps some faux howls of rage to fuel fundraising efforts.
And then in twenty years, when being old is synonymous with being desperately poor (as it was back before Social Security was implemented), most Americans will follow FOX News' lead in blaming the poor themselves for their poverty, rather than the obscenely wealthy monied class and corporations whose greed destroyed America.
Just as only Nixon could visit China, only the Democrats can destroy the New Deal and the Great Society. It's political suicide for them, but nonetheless they're doing it, piece by piece. Why? It's either sheer stupidity, or (more likely) they've decided to throw in with the winners in our long class war: the owner class, the billionaires and large corporations.
And after all, What is the public going to do? Revolt? The most any of them will think to do is vote for a third party, which is why billionaires like the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch have thoughtfully provided them with an ersatz third ("Tea") party to divert and defuse any real possibility of change.
We're witnessing a tragic experiment. The American working class is being tested to destruction. Will the complicit media manage to confuse and bamboozle an uneducated and ignorant public into internicene warfare? Or will the public, in the end, finally wake up and turn on the plutocrats and media moguls who have decided that the middle class and poor are expendable? I wish I knew. Either way, the results will be very ugly indeed.
George Carlin said it best. It's called the American "Dream", because you have to be asleep to believe it.
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Violent revolution, hmm, the problem is when the people who've been fed conspiracy notions by Glenn Beck and others decide that elected officials of either party are Evil Traitors and decide to do what Sharon Angle called "Second Amendment Solutions." And if the Tea Party is setting up for anything with its extremist rhetoric it is for that scenario, although the Secret Masters probably aren't allotting for that, thinking that the Masses are Asses and would just continue to be led by the nose. People not much farther afield than the Tea Party have engaged in violence in the not so distant past after all.