On Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 5:20:08 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
> For a long time to come, the middle class would do well, to retain the > current status of the US, as a nation-state, rather than some alternative, > that is never explained, by the progressives. They just know what they > hate, and what they hate is the rest of us, those who identify as Americans > as opposed to citizens of the world. The middle class is increasingly > oppressed by the globalists, the ruling class that fund both parties, in an > exchange of campaign donations, for favorable treatment, regulations, and > laws from the paying corporations. This is a class war unlike what Engel's > and Marx dreamed of. > The class terminology you employ was essentially forged by Marx and no, he actually did see the paradox of a class of owners that would constantly be incentivized to push down real labor costs/salaries in the face of relatively stable production costs in the name of holy profits. The constant increasing robbery and the myriads of crises that this state of affairs entails, which all end up benefiting upper classes; each and every time... that's their basic argument. > I would say that the trend of human history is now, not in favor of > globalism, because of its predatory treatment of the middle class, thus, > making it on the wrong side of history. For example, Sony's funding of BLM > seems disingenuous to the extreme, and the board of directors, Sony, > definitively, have zero to do, much, with their paying customers. So what > is really going on here? Whatever it is, the result will never be a redress > of legitimate grievances, but rather the exacerbation of extremist actions. > As long as working and middle classes stay focused on blame games, listen to authoritarians, dabble in racism, stumbling from one crises into the next... the "globalists" as you call them, will keep winning. Part of my generation by now has grown adaptive enough to swim along with whatever everybody seems to want. Want racism and authoritarians? Fine, we'll adapt. Want UBI and working class empowerment? We can do that too... but we're not betting y'all have the balls. We don't have the balls to agree on pandemic survival without falling for the sirens of transparent disinformation, so tackling class seems quite the tall order and on the verge of laughable. PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1a8db629-8f77-436c-bfb5-070572a8c249n%40googlegroups.com.
