The Capitalism Virus Is Back In a New Wave.

[ancianita]

Yes, the history of our societal and worker divisions is a bit long on this video, but the important point is to remind us just how long the capitalist divisive model has been around.

A new world is possible. Governor Cuomo and others are already explaining just how that new world can be re-imagined.

But the capitalist model will not change with the reality of our climate crisis and its attendant pandemics. The "we who are special are driven; we don't sit around; we get up and work" ads on TV are designed to drive us to do the reopeners' bidding. At any cost. And for "free" individuals' benefit. With no guarantees.

What the reopeners and their tool, bloody donnie, really mean:

"Austerity economics and no guarantees for thee, pandemic testing and patent controls for me."

The Virus's New Wave Call: Get Back Out There, Show All Corona Liars Who's Boss, Or The Commie Socialists Win

"We are all in this together" is the opposite of what capitalists and their political tools want. Therefore, they call all attempts to fight a pandemic together fake, lies, evil lies.

(excerpt of the final 3 minutes)

Acknowledging that the mainstream media, scientists, academics, and apolitical government institutions that taxpayers fund are all right this time would seriously damage years and years of their own talking points that have attacked those institutions.

Politicians are already beginning to reopen the non-essential businesses amid the pandemic... Their rich donors are demanding that they do this in spite of the danger it will cause. so that corporations can rake in more money. Who do you think is telling the Las Vegas mayor to reopen the casinos -- the casino owners themselves. The capitalists...

... Anything to avoid acknowledging that capitalism puts business interests over human lives.

It's especially important for capitalists to obfuscate the harm capitalism causes in a time when people are finally starting to recognize this. After all, when right wing politicians and pundits told people they should sacrifice themselves for the economy, that may have opened some minds about the true cost of capitalism.

Bear in mind that none of this excuses the behavior of anyone causing genuine harm.

We have to protect ourselves from Individuals, because Individuals are the ones who will adopt misinformation into practice in dangerous ways.

This is particularly important in this case because some of the people protesting are not simply misinformed, but are actively recruiting for dangerous causes.

Nobody is congratulating anybody for their ignorance on an issue. It's simply important to recognize where this is all coming from.

It's not enough to just say COVIDIOTS. It's critical to recognize entities with more power and influence that are creating these divisions among the workers so that we can correct the public record when possible.

So that we can see them for what they are, and potentially dismantle them.

Only on The Capitalist Plantation are workers
-- fed misinformation,
-- told to fight for the scaps they have, and
-- told to get back to work
with no guarantee of any protection but for the Owners.

[safeinOhio]

1. Work hard

and eat hay and some day
there will be pie in the
sky when you die.


Just toss in a little old time religion to go with it.

[ancianita]

2. Yes, that's what Bad Capitalists' rhetoric has really said. And this IS about Bad Capitalists.

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Good capitalists are really about supporting good economics that aren't plantation economics.

[Dustlawyer]

3. Is there any surprise at this when we gauge how well the candidates are doing

by how much in legal (and illegal) donations/bribes they have raised?

Until we change how we elect our leaders we will be along for the ride eating shite sandwiches.

[ancianita]

4. I hear you.

How the model works is still obfuscated for many, so it needs as regular a reference as "lock her up," imo.

I hope I'm not guilty of simply preaching to the converted.

The way I see it, the more ways that this situation is clarified, the more clear and convincing we on the Democratic side are when we talk with those who keep believing that the only way out of this is the Republican way.