Don’t tell us it’s not a class war
Source: The Globe and Mail
The entire world seems to be one huge advertisement for The Shock Doctrine. Naomi Klein showed in her revelatory book how the corporate-political-military-media complex exploits crises to further impose their harsh right-wing agenda even when they themselves created the crisis. In a sane world, the economic meltdown and deep recession of the past four years would have led at minimum to stringent regulation of financiers and speculators plus programs to assist their victims. But in this world, you have to be nuts to believe in a sane world.
In reality, everything thats happened in the past several years has gone to further empower and enrich the 1 per cent (or maybe the 5 per cent) at the expense of the rest of us. Look anywhere you want. What else does the universal demand for austerity programs mean? What else does the sudden concerted attack on public sector workers mean? What else does the intransigent line taken by multinational corporations against their unions mean? What else does the demand for right-to-work laws mean? What else does the widespread attack on seniors pensions mean?
Look at poor Greece. Ms. Klein could have invented it as a pure case study for her thesis. Big economic problems, its true. So how do you fix them? As a Greek journalist wrote matter-of-factly in The New York Times, the latest bailout program imposed by the IMF, the European Union and the European Central Bank almost guarantees recession. And this will be on top of the punishment that had already been inflicted on the 99 per cent, including deep cuts to private-sector wages, layoffs in the civil service and significant reductions in health and social security.
... How exactly ordinary Greeks and Spaniards and Brits will endure, get by, pay for their rent or groceries or transportation, or offer their kids a hopeful life this has become the greatest question of the early 21st century.
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rfranklin
(13,200 posts)with that in mind. There will be shortages of food, water, and other resources and there will be hungry, angry people clamoring for a share. It is a bunker mentality amongst the very wealthy which is no different than what we saw among the less affluent in recent years with the stockpiling of food, guns and ammo, preparing for the onslaught.
It always seemed crazy but I heard today that the prediction is for the population to reach 8 billion by 2024. So the struggle for food and water doesn't seem that far off.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)izquierdista
(11,689 posts)Ended with the right-wingers huddled in their bunkers, shooting themselves in the head.
NBachers
(17,080 posts)which continues to morph, murder, and multiply