This a response to Pellice's diary
The goal IS to reduce the standard of living , the main thrust of which is that the standing oligarchy is trying to reduce the workforce of the United States to a condition of near poverty in order to better compete with the rising third world economically and also to produce an unlimited supply of cannon fodder for their economic imperialist wars.
Here is my answer to that:
YES!!!
Precisely where they are coming from.
But it will NOT work.
Why?
Because there is going to come a time...quite soon, I'll betcha...where "cannon fodder" will be as outmoded a concept as cannons.
Terrorism is the war of the future.
The war of the PRESENT, really.
The first real "terrorist" war?
W.W.II, to a large extent.
The Blitz, concentration camps and genocide, the firebombing of German cities, the use of the atom bomb to bring Japan to its knees...in terror, bet on it...
Terrorist war.
Vietnam? The bombing of Cambodia and N. Vietnam? The deforestation?
Terrorism.
"We may 'lose'...but we WILL fuck you up in the meantime. And then we'll go home and eat steak."
Terror.
The secret wars in South + Central America? People just "disappearing"?
Terror.
The Permanent Government supported drug scourge that ravaged our inner cities and completely disarmed a rising black political resistance?
Terror.
Desert Storm?
Shock and awe?
Terror.
Why not? It makes sense, in these people's nasty, ego-ridden minds.
It's "economically feasible".
Cost effective.
Like WalMart, only bloodier.
And now it comes home.
The Third World has figured out how the game works.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. It's economically even MORE feasible to use the involuntary reaction of the developed world's mass media to terror..."The sky is falling!!!" multiplied literally a million times by all the news broadcasts and articles...to amgnify every terrorist action out of all proportion to its actual significance.
One terrorist action every...what, every few months, worldwide? And the terror wheel keeps right on spinning out of control in the United States.
"We don't NEED no steenking cannons!!!"
As they force the society to implode due to its own panicked reaction to the implied threats.
So, no...this will NOT work, this "third world-ization" of the middle class here. This attempt to create a Sparta or some sort of standing rich oligarchy/poor workers system.
Because there is no longer any NEED of "Spartas".
Something new this way comes.
THIS system will fall apart first.
If we do not adjust, and do so soon.
The fall of the neocons is the first step that must be taken.
And Fitzgerald is the first OFFICIAL step in that direction.
This is and has been a very resilient country. It has changed with the times precisely because that is the way it was originally set UP to function.
One more time?
We shall see.
It's either one more one more time once or the beginning of the last inning for the overpaid Yankees and their felonious owners.
We shall see...
Charles