Bitch, please. Do you even realize how short-term your thinking is? Wealth accumulation at the top has locked out the rest of the population from achieving any meaningful wealth accumulation. Eventually this top-heavy plutocracy will lead to an inevitable overthrow of the quasi-aristocracy. Do you think the poor will be content being virtual serfs to the investor class while the likes of Paris Hilton do nothing but live off the largess of her predecessors?
Furthermore, the trickle-down economics of the last 30 years have led to nothing but massive waste, debt, and a going nowhere economy.
I agree with most of what LK has posted in this thread; however, I disagree that this will lead to any sort of 'revolution' that fixes much of anything.
We're on the road to a long-term (read: as far as the eye can see) return to the human race's norm of extreme concentration of wealth to which the Western strong middle class was an interesting exception, and which we took for granted, but which is all too vulnerable to ending to the forces of concentrated wealth.
When was the Soviet Union going to fall without outside pressures? When will China's community government fall without outside pressures?
One side in the class war - the only side fighting it, the top - is well prepared for coming 'backlash' against the resentment. The tea party is one small taste of how 'backlash' can be pointed right back against the public interest. The side who has the money, the media, the propaganda infrastructure and more has little to worry about.
Today I glanced at a reminder of the history of South Africa - how they used the demons of the 'communist threat' to justify their extreme authoritarian claims to power.
It had nothing to do with communists, and everything to do with how well blaming communists let them keep the public under control. It worked for decades (finally undermined by outside pressures, such as the US sanctions the Democrats passed over President Reagan's veto).
They 'blame the Democrats', blame socialism, even still throw the Communist word around regularly, to keep the people's resentment away from the real culprits.
And that's just one of all kinds of things that prevent any 'revolution'.
And the massive draining of wealth from the middle class weakens the middle class's ability to do anything about this.
The consolidation of the media from hundreds and thousands of more diverse owners to IIRC 90% owned by five main mega corporations, the development of right-wing propaganda organizations whose messages dominate the 'discussion' fed to the American people and have shifted opinion away from the public interest, the increase in lobbyists from under a thousand when Reagan took office to over 35,000, and more are some of the problems shown by the changes.
There is no 'outside' to fix the US, other than repressive regimes like China.
People need to embrace the only major political group for the public interest, the progressives, but instead the pendulum didn't even go to the middle from the last Republican disaster since 2001 and is already headed to the right again, back to more disaster.
When did all this get a lot worse? The last time the country rejected far better policies under Carter for the disaster of Ronald Reagan.
Before that, the real end of the 'liberal decades' that strengthened our nation, when they picked Nixon over Humphrey.
Do you think the poor will be content being virtual serfs to the investor class while the likes of Paris Hilton do nothing but live off the largess of her predecessors?
The larger problem is, it won't matter how content they are about it. LK isn't so manipulated by the propaganda, but he might forget how much most are.
He should look at the rise of Sarah Palin and her ilk, and realize how much it contradicts how he thinks America should work, and how difficult fixes are.
The election of a business-ruining ignoramus corporate whore of nepotism named George W. Bush over Clinton's chosen successor who was the key congressional leader in America's greatest advancement of the previous decade, the internet, wasn't enough about how bad the problem with the American people's politics is?
We need money reduced in our system, to defend democracy. That is its biggest threat, and oaths against 'enemies domestic' ring hollow without that war.
On the revolution LK mentions - the right began winning the revolution with organizing - mailing lists, channeling money from right-wing tycoons, organizing media control and content ('the media is liberal' being one of their many attacks to make it more right-wing) and so on, and it's worked well at causing harm. People need to organize more for the public interest in opposition - to change course from our downward trend. Read 'liberal media' (see my sig), donate to good causes, talk to your 'non-political' family members to not vote for the 'guy they want a beer with' as presented by the well-financed advertisers.
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