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In reply to the discussion: Making $7.75 an Hour, and Figuring There’s Little to Lose by Speaking Out [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)the New Deal was evolution.
but if those in power continue to seek to undo the New Deal - and if legislation and judicial action continues to favor the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class...
if politicians do not respond to the suffering of the majority and they have gerrymandered districts to make it impossible to vote into power those who would change things...
you have the conditions for a revolution.
of course I would prefer evolution.
But conditions create the climate for what happens, and I was just noting the conditions are there. The political class in the U.S. seems just as blind to the conditions they are creating as the French aristocracy.
Emmanuel Todd, a French demographer who predicted the fall of the Soviet Union back when Reagan was selling Star Wars snake oil, also talked about conditions in the U.S. for the fall of the American empire.
Conditions here are similar to conditions in the USSR, in terms of an entrenched political oligarchy, totalitarian oversight and intimidation, and a lack of options for educated young people (and women - women are important in this equation in and of themselves, as far as backlash against pigs like the ones in power in the current Republican Party.)
Anyway, I read his work back in the mid-2000s. Pretty interesting.
He predicted the fall of the Soviet Union in a book published in 1976, but the work was done even before publication, of course.