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In reply to the discussion: Someday it will be crystal clear to all just what a terrible president Ronald Reagan was- [View all]Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)From what I have read, prior to Regan the uppity nature of the kind of response the government and big business was dealing with from a more stable and prosperous middle-class was not going to fly. They made a point not to let that happen again and here it is.
I have always seen the Raygun Era as the deliberate and carefully planned decision by those at the top of the MIC to bring us to where we are at now. My prognostications have not been incorrect, it seems.
It is easy for people to attribute the end of the middle-class as we knew it, safety nets, along with a rapidly increasing wealth inequity that is sucking us dry, as based more on current events, global issues and such. They are a factor, but our internal degradation, (now approaching 3rd-World in some cases) has been a long, slow effort to bring us to our knees. It has been successful.
If that point is going to be collectively ignored or dismissed, this downfall for the vast majority who are not in the winner's club will continue unabated and an oligarchy/theocracy/fascist/Neo-Feudal United States is the outcome, all controlled and directed by the next wave of AI/Automation that is primarily and tightly controlled by techno-monopolies, (Google, Apple, et al) who are among the wealthiest entities on the planet. They represent the elite and they have primary access to and control of new and powerful technologies that they can leverage to achieve this goal.
Our current debacle is not new or a cyclic outcome, it is a direct and obvious result of the hubris of the wealthy in this country and how dare we try to oppose or stop it. Simple.