I'd agree with almost all of that. The problem though is not with politicians, or with big business, but with the ill-informed public. Few people these days seem to want to pull their heads away from Jersey Shore or Real Housewives long enough to actually understand anything about our economy.
Unless that changes, the Republican/Big Business unholy alliance will continue to drag the country down hill. The very rich don't care, because their real source of wealth isn't linked to how well the economy does; neither is the survival of the huge multi-national corporations. They are all driven by one thing; making money at the lowest possible cost. Social programs and realistic wages do not figure into their calculations.
The problem then is how to get turkeys to stop voting for Thanksgiving? Simple. You stop people who already have nothing from being envious, self-centered, and prejudiced. These are the key traits that the ultra-rich, through the Republican propaganda machine, target.
Just don't expect the schools to help them lift up their eyes and recognize the truth; by systematically attacking all education programs, or (like the Koch brothers, buying the right to appoint the faculty at universities), the general population will be kept ignorant and stuck in their hatred of everyone else; except, oddly, the very rich who actually are responsible for their misery.
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Date: 2011-08-09 05:23 pm (UTC)Unless that changes, the Republican/Big Business unholy alliance will continue to drag the country down hill. The very rich don't care, because their real source of wealth isn't linked to how well the economy does; neither is the survival of the huge multi-national corporations. They are all driven by one thing; making money at the lowest possible cost. Social programs and realistic wages do not figure into their calculations.
The problem then is how to get turkeys to stop voting for Thanksgiving? Simple. You stop people who already have nothing from being envious, self-centered, and prejudiced. These are the key traits that the ultra-rich, through the Republican propaganda machine, target.
Just don't expect the schools to help them lift up their eyes and recognize the truth; by systematically attacking all education programs, or (like the Koch brothers, buying the right to appoint the faculty at universities), the general population will be kept ignorant and stuck in their hatred of everyone else; except, oddly, the very rich who actually are responsible for their misery.