This is why we should all be as angry as our conservative and Tea Party brothers and sisters. To be clear their outrage is misinformed but not unwarranted. Perhaps a better example would be the outrage channeled by Black Lives Matter and formerly the Occupy Movement. But please be understanding of our fellow slaves, they are told regularly by "their" media they might be really really rich someday. That they could own a plantation even as every indication shows the plantation owners have no more affinity for one skin color than another. Causing some to view these poor angry whites as in a poor light, but I think they are just neo-slaves like me and you. The plantation owners have just done a masterful job of keeping us separate. Keeping us from standing up together. Our African American and Latino brothers and sisters must think we poor white folks foolish. As they have known all along what the reality is. It was what Martin Luther was talking about in the days before he was assassinated. So For us to believe we have more in common with billionaires than our neighbors down the street is not only tragic but also a testament to how well manufactured our divisions are, as to have become systemic.
Today's "high yellow" is defined not by skin color but by economics. Your "chains" are your debts or even a lack thereof is just another division among the slaves. We can all see what's going on. The 20 richest robber barons control more of the nation's assets than the one hundred and fifty million Americans trapped on the bottom of our economy. It may be that it's the next 9/10ths of 1% that make it possible, and indeed the top 10% make it work. They are put in the position of the favored slave, the house n--gs, the field bosses. Giving the plantation owners the power to keep all of us in economic chains. The facts are not in question. Just what you have been conditioned to feel about them.
So while I apologize for the inflammatory language, I don't know how else to explain how dire the situation in this country is today. I know we are the best fed, best entertained slaves in the world, but we are still just slaves to the economic elite. In this economy the top 1% are often described as the engine of our economy. Maybe that was true once. Today they are more like carjackers. Driving our economy like they stole it, stripping it, selling the parts and keeping all the money for themselves.
So how can my outrageous assertions be true? How have they turned us to slaves? Willie Lynch taught em in "How to make a slave". The evidence is obvious. Our factory jobs are overseas now in China, India and other places. The image of the great American bread winner was first tarred and feathered. "Unions have destroyed this country." "Unions have driven the cost of manufacturing too high." "We can't afford their pensions." (Keep in mind this was all for profits for about 20 people). Then they, lit him on fire, pulled the image of the figure head of the American provider to pieces by destroying unions and the factories themselves. With all the jobs gone he couldn't support his family anymore. He was pulled to pieces and the rest of the slaves watched in fear. Farmers and ranchers were introduced to corporate agriculture. When the tech community got a little uppity, we sent their jobs to India and voila the tech bubble burst. This didn't just represent males, it was a message to any neoslave provider who got too full of themselves and cut into the profits of the one percent even a little. Your jobs will go away too. Get back in line. For profits are what matter.
The message. You get payed what the "Massa" says you'll get paid. Step out of line and we'll light you on fire, tear you apart and send the jobs elsewhere. So while we aren't all farmers, factory or tech workers, we all got the message. Furthermore that money is gone from our economy, funneled into the pockets of the Robber Barons. Sent to Ireland or Switzerland or the Cayman Islands, never to be seen again, devastating our economy. Because if the destruction of the middle class didn't prove that trickledown economics don't work, ask the guy who designed it. David Stockman, one of Reagan's top economic advisors, has been voting Democratic since '92, when he voted for Bill Clinton. He has said publicly"a lot, it should have ended in '88. Besides to most of us the decline of the middle class, all the money in the hands of the rich and an almost $19 trillion dollar national debt, proves it never worked. Even if we didn't know how to explain it.
Income inequality in America is worse than any other industrialized country in the world; as is the rate of upward mobility. If you are born poor in America you will die poor. You can't work hard enough anymore to get ahead. You gotta get lucky or have a one in 360,000,000 idea. Or maybe win Powerball, the retirement account that requires six matching numbers.
So we have been separated by race, age, income, region, religion, sexual preference and "political persuasion". With a precision Willie Lynch would applaud on a scope he could never have dreamed. We have been told it's not the case by people who far exceed Joseph Goebbles, the Nazi administer of propaganda, in talent and accomplishments. Because you see the salesman for the 1% are the guys who made Madison Ave famous. They were the intelligence officers who helped the Allies defeat Nazi Germany and the other countries of the Axis. They invented psychological warfare. It was effective then and is used in our military operations to this day. Now K Street carries on their work. "Winning the hearts and minds," everyone, "winning the hearts and minds."
They turned their focus on making capitalism the answer to every problem. Demonizing any social program out of the fear it might lead to dictatorship and cut into profits. When the opposite is equally likely. Hitler's Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy were fascist countries, they were a mix of capitalism and authoritarian rule so successful that Senator Prescott Bush (George's Granddaddy) wanted the US to enter WWII on the side of the Germans. Socialism like what is found in Russia and China is rare. More common are countries like Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, or the other countries we may be more familiar with France, England and our neighbor Canada, all Democratic Socialist. These are fine countries not known for dictators at all. In fact many arguments could be made to say they are more free, equal and fair than the US today.
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