The PEASANTS Are About To REVOLT And The 1% Is Already Plotting To Stop It

[Segami]

The Guardian has a fascinating article about how the Masters of the Universe are starting to realize that screwing 99% of the Earth’s population will lead to a populist uprising. In other words, the peasants are about to revolt and the aristocracy is getting worried. So will they amend their ways? Will they put a check on their enormous greed? Will they stop rigging the system and stealing millions billions trillions from the people that do all the work?


HELLLLLL NO!

"...Far from acknowledging the predatory and unequalising impact of neoliberal capitalism, the document shows that the inclusive capitalism project is concerned with PR to promote “a more nuanced view of society,” without which “there is a risk that… we will be led down a policy path of increased regulation and greater state control of institutions, businesses and the people at the heart of them, which will fatally cripple the very system that has been responsible for economic prosperity.”

The project is thus designed “to influence political and business opinion” and to target public opinion through a “media campaign that seeks to engage major outlets....”

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/28/inclusive-capitalism-trojan-horse-global-revolt-henry-jackson-society-pr-growth

By “nuanced”, of course, they mean “shovel copious amounts of bullshit.” Because if there’s one thing the rich despise more than anything else, it’s a well-informed populace capable of rationally discussing the issue of income inequality and corporate greed. But the sentence really sums up the 1%’s resistance to government regulation is the one in bold above: “We will be led down a policy path of increased regulation and greater state control of institutions, businesses and the people at the heart of them, which will fatally cripple the very system that has been responsible for economic prosperity.” This is absolutely correct! Increased government control would fatally cripple that system. What the 1% neglects to mention is that the economic prosperity they’re so protective of only exists for them. More specifically, it only exists for them at the expense of everyone else.


Under the old system of tighter regulations and higher taxes, the rich still got richer but so did the people that provided the labor. Banks still made money but they couldn’t rob people blind or risk the entire economy. The 1% got rid of that system because they just weren’t getting richer fast enough. The current system lets them destroy the economy and still accumulate mass amounts of wealth in the process. What’s not to love about that? If you’re already rich, that is.




cont'


http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/05/29/peasant-revolt/

[The Traveler]

1. Now, be honest

This reaction comes as no surprise to you, does it? We all knew this "inclusive capitalism" crap was, indeed, the rank feces of diseased bulls.

Thanks for posting this. But ... I can't say I am surprised.

Trav

[Shandris]

2. Nah. If I were the 1%, I wouldn't be concerned.

We can't rationally discuss how to treat each other without two/four/six/eight partisan sides ready to shed each other's blood over who has it worse under the almighty hetero white man, let alone a rational economic policy.

Sadly enough, the peasant mob has more to fear from each other than the 1% do. Which is just the way the 1% want it.

[defacto7]

4. You just uncovered the true clandestine plan...

"the peasant mob has more to fear from each other"

And that is the real game.

[dreamnightwind]

13. +1

[sabrina 1]

24. I agree that's how they want it, all of us, fighting amongst ourselves. But the reason they are

WORRIED is that the young are not so invested in that. The Left and Right and everything in between is joining forces AGAINST THEM. THAT is why they are worried.

OWS was the warning sign that people will no longer remain blind to what is really going on. People of all political affiliations were able to join forces on issues that affect ALL OF US.

See how desperate they are to try to discredit anyone who speaks out about the corruption that is destroying democratic principles all over the world. See how they try to label people, for the Right, it is 'Liberals are EVIL', and for the Left it is 'Libertarians are EVIL'. But the younger generation are ignoring their formerly successful divisive tactics. THEY are immune to the 'labels'. Which is why they cracked down so hard on that peaceful movement.

It won't work, because young people are not invested in the OLD WAYS, and so far they have not come with a way to use partisanship to control the dissatisfaction with the 'way things are' other than the use of violence against them, which only unites people, now across the globe.

The old ways are no longer working. You can see how desperate they are when they resort to the old 'commie' talking points, which has zero impact on today's generation.

They ARE afraid, and they should be. They are dinosaurs in a world that views their 'policies' as harmful to children and all living things and a world that is rejecting their divisive tactics, once effective but not any more.

[defacto7]

3. Read it and weep...

It's going to be a long century.

[Tsiyu]

5. If the 1% is so myopic and self-involved

they think a slick advertising campaign will make people's hunger, frustration and distress magically seem an illusion, they need a new marketing team.

People see through the slick pharmco adverts, they saw through Rmoney's crap, and they certainly aren't going to be fooled nto thinking everything is peachy keen when they can't even afford to buy their kids new shoes for school or get that bad tire replaced on the car.

They won't be fooled into not seeing the inmates tortured and beaten to death ( by policies that promote hiring the lowest common denominator guards to increase profits,) they are not going to be manipulated into pretending half the people they know aren't felons or in prisons or on parole, they will not go merrily down the primrose path that tells them making shit wages and killing themselves for those shit wages is all an illusion.

The French aristocrats never saw it coming, and neither will any of us. You just never know which outrage, which horror, which beating or draconian law or business closing will be the tipping point.

If the 1% want to really forestall their own beheadings, they need to pay their far share of taxes, pay workers a living wage and bring jobs back to the US. They need to free up money for the common man.

No slick advert is going to forestall their demise if they don't end the suffering of the masses. It's a story as old as time.

Any attempt to bullshit the public in this manner will backfire, and may itself be the tipping point.




TL;DR: You can't take away a man's hunger by showing him a glossy centerfold of a pork chop. But in doing same, you may enrage him to the point he turns you into a "chop."

[nxylas]

6. How is that different from what they already do?

They've been pushing the myth that "anyone can be a millionaire if they just work hard enough" for about 150 years now. And people are just now starting to wake up to the fact that it's bullshit. How exactly do they propose to push the genie back into the bottle?

[blkmusclmachine]

7. I always wondered if Obama's 30,000 Drones were going to be in the protection of the 1% from the 99%

[KansDem]

8. "...with PR to promote 'a more nuanced view of society'..."

Hmmm... Couldn't be the reason net neutrality is "on the table," could it?

As someone who hasn't had cable since 1996, I glean all my news and information from various sources on the internet. But now that its free and open status is being threatened more and more by the oligarchs, I wonder if the plan is to control all of our thinking. After all, just how much news and information can you get on a dirt road?

[quaker bill]

9. The real question on their minds

is not how to fix the problem but just how many bones need to be thrown. I imagine they think that there is a point where they are still very very rich, but revolution is avoided.

[Enthusiast]

10. Two wars + tax cuts = a greater share of wealth for the 1%.

Veteran's needs unfunded. Infrastructure crumbling.

WTF?!

How's that trickle down stuff working out for you? Did Democrats take the Norquist pledge?

Then there is the issue of wholesale outsourcing of good paying American manufacturing jobs.

There are hundreds of paid internet sockpuppets on hand to tell you how trade deals have benefited lower wage Americans, "Now you can afford so many products." Seriously, this is their argument. And a Democratic President is at the forefront of pushing yet another destructive trade deal! It is unfuckingbelievable! Anything and everything for the 1%!

[dreamnightwind]

14. And the preordained 2016 nominee helped write the TPP n/t

[sendero]

11. "which will fatally cripple the very system that has been responsible for economic prosperity"

..... don't look now idiots, but your "prosperity" has already died for the 99.9%.

You'll have to do better than this, this shit is lame.

[Earth_First]

12. What they need is 12 hours of new reality-based network television programming..

STAT!

[starroute]

15. The difference now is peak oil and global warming

As long as there was cheap energy, they were able to buy off the 99% with a few crumbs from the surplus and not really notice. But in an era of inevitable belt-tightening, there's going to be less for everyone. And much of the 1% would rather return to neo-feudalism than give up one penny of what they think is theirs.

[TBF]

16. I was speaking w/a comrade about this -

"Under the old system of tighter regulations and higher taxes, the rich still got richer but so did the people that provided the labor. Banks still made money but they couldn’t rob people blind or risk the entire economy. The 1% got rid of that system because they just weren’t getting richer fast enough. The current system lets them destroy the economy and still accumulate mass amounts of wealth in the process. What’s not to love about that? If you’re already rich, that is."

The piece I was missing and I think others miss too is that after WWII our rivals were in shambles. It wasn't difficult for the US to tax and regulate because there was not as much competition. By the time a few decades had passed and Reagan was entering office companies were facing much stiffer competition (our rivals had rebounded). Capitalism forces companies to work at the highest production possible in order to bring in greater and greater profits. There is no such thing as an "inclusive capitalism" - the system mandates you go for broke. Reagan responded to their pleas of lowering capital gains so they could more effectively compete. Of course it didn't help the workers of this country because NAFTA had been passed and jobs were sent overseas for cheaper labor. And, of course, capitalism marched on. "Reigning it in" now is going to be a tall order.

[bemildred]

17. Dog eat dog capitalism makes a dog eat dog world. nt

[polly7]

18. Great articles, Segami. nt.

[Puzzledtraveller]

19. The 99% is not the peasantry!

There is no 99%. In fact the idea of there even being a 99% benefits an upper crust who does not want any attention to heir largess. Perhaps the lower 40 is the peasantry, the impoverished and working poor who cling to what middle class lives they have left while that upper crusts tries to mix in as if they struggle like the rest of us.

[Ikonoklast]

20. And what will they do when they destroy the system that made them wealthy?

And their ones and zeroes become worthless?

[Mnemosyne]

21. K&R nt

[pinboy3niner]

22. If they really get worried, they'll just throw a few sops to take steam out of the movement

Instead of real reform, they'll satisfice with a few concessions.

[Eleanors38]

23. All this is well under way now. The corporate state's

Best tac is to trade on the cheapest slogan of worldly hepdom permeating our celebrity culture: You can't do anything about it.

Their biggest fear: They depend on a dying mass media model that can no longer serve (as it once did) to legitimize its actions.