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Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
5. If the 1% is so myopic and self-involved
Fri May 30, 2014, 03:52 AM
May 2014

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."



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Now, be honest The Traveler May 2014 #1
Nah. If I were the 1%, I wouldn't be concerned. Shandris May 2014 #2
You just uncovered the true clandestine plan... defacto7 May 2014 #4
+1 dreamnightwind May 2014 #13
I agree that's how they want it, all of us, fighting amongst ourselves. But the reason they are sabrina 1 May 2014 #24
Read it and weep... defacto7 May 2014 #3
If the 1% is so myopic and self-involved Tsiyu May 2014 #5
How is that different from what they already do? nxylas May 2014 #6
I always wondered if Obama's 30,000 Drones were going to be in the protection of the 1% from the 99% blkmusclmachine May 2014 #7
"...with PR to promote 'a more nuanced view of society'..." KansDem May 2014 #8
The real question on their minds quaker bill May 2014 #9
Two wars + tax cuts = a greater share of wealth for the 1%. Enthusiast May 2014 #10
And the preordained 2016 nominee helped write the TPP n/t dreamnightwind May 2014 #14
"which will fatally cripple the very system that has been responsible for economic prosperity" sendero May 2014 #11
What they need is 12 hours of new reality-based network television programming.. Earth_First May 2014 #12
The difference now is peak oil and global warming starroute May 2014 #15
I was speaking w/a comrade about this - TBF May 2014 #16
Dog eat dog capitalism makes a dog eat dog world. nt bemildred May 2014 #17
Great articles, Segami. nt. polly7 May 2014 #18
The 99% is not the peasantry! Puzzledtraveller May 2014 #19
And what will they do when they destroy the system that made them wealthy? Ikonoklast May 2014 #20
K&R nt Mnemosyne May 2014 #21
If they really get worried, they'll just throw a few sops to take steam out of the movement pinboy3niner May 2014 #22
All this is well under way now. The corporate state's Eleanors38 May 2014 #23
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