Excellent! Great breakdown. One comment to add. You mention US elites should perhaps revisit their actions after WW2 when they shared a bit of wealth with the general populace to defuse the situation. I certainly agree. However, the circumstances after WW2 were somewhat different. The problem elites faced was that they had had to mobilize the population to fight the war and thereby imbued in them consciousness of their united power. Thus 1946 and 1947 saw an explosion of strikes and union power. The most in US history. The horse had escaped from the barn. They desperately tried to reharness it with the Taft-Hartley Act, which effectively bogged unions down in a morass of rules and turned them into bureaucracies embroiled in legalisms. But even with that measure, union power and massive strikes continued through the fifties into the sixties before it was finally worn down from exhaustion. Lesson: never mobilize and unite the population. The wars that followed--Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, etc--were very consciously "Guns and butter" wars. The population was not asked to sacrifice and even that vestige of mass mobilization, conscription, was eventually abandoned. The tried and true method of "divide and rule" has thus been the norm. Keep everyone fighting about race, gender, religion and "values" issues and decapitate potential leadership by smearing anyone who mentions economic or class issues as a godless communist. This prevents the kind of unity necessary for a coherent mass movement that could challenge elites. That's where we in the U.S. are now--and it's a very tough nut to crack.
Unfortunately, as soon as I read a sentence that suggests somebody is gullible enough to believe in the climate change lie I lose the will to read the rest, even though you are right about the West screwing everything up.
Excellent! Great breakdown. One comment to add. You mention US elites should perhaps revisit their actions after WW2 when they shared a bit of wealth with the general populace to defuse the situation. I certainly agree. However, the circumstances after WW2 were somewhat different. The problem elites faced was that they had had to mobilize the population to fight the war and thereby imbued in them consciousness of their united power. Thus 1946 and 1947 saw an explosion of strikes and union power. The most in US history. The horse had escaped from the barn. They desperately tried to reharness it with the Taft-Hartley Act, which effectively bogged unions down in a morass of rules and turned them into bureaucracies embroiled in legalisms. But even with that measure, union power and massive strikes continued through the fifties into the sixties before it was finally worn down from exhaustion. Lesson: never mobilize and unite the population. The wars that followed--Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, etc--were very consciously "Guns and butter" wars. The population was not asked to sacrifice and even that vestige of mass mobilization, conscription, was eventually abandoned. The tried and true method of "divide and rule" has thus been the norm. Keep everyone fighting about race, gender, religion and "values" issues and decapitate potential leadership by smearing anyone who mentions economic or class issues as a godless communist. This prevents the kind of unity necessary for a coherent mass movement that could challenge elites. That's where we in the U.S. are now--and it's a very tough nut to crack.
What can be done?:/
As always Roger, a good read. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Truth. Thanks for posting, Roger.
Unfortunately, as soon as I read a sentence that suggests somebody is gullible enough to believe in the climate change lie I lose the will to read the rest, even though you are right about the West screwing everything up.