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ProfessorPlum

(11,253 posts)
2. It's because capitalism, left to its own devices, creates the society that the Republicans' masters
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 09:40 AM
Mar 2017

want.

With no government to re-distribute money - to essentially move money from the top back to the workers so that the whole cycle of people buying things and other people providing goods and services can keep going continually - the money flows to the top and then just stays there. It creates a world of a few people with all of the money, and a vast underclass that have no choice but to exchange all of their labor for mere existence, if that.

This is the dream of the wealthy elite - slave or unpaid labor - minimal operating costs, and a world where all of their scads of money just sit offshore or in accounts, doing nothing, and where they can feel superior to all of those struggling clods who have to work for them, for crumbs.

And to create that, the GOP essentially has to do nothing - just destroy the government that saves us from trading our labor for nothing, from con men, from fraud and from being poisoned or robbed or otherwise destroyed by the rich. Just let minimum wage float away, social security dry up, collective bargaining die . . . and they win.

They don't have to govern because not governing lets all of their benefactors get what they want or keep what they already have by default.

Democrats, on the other hand, have to think of palatable ways to separate the wealthy from just some of their money, so that it can flow through the proles hands for a few moments before they trade back again for housing, food, warmth, education, goods, or transportation. At which point it is right back in the hands of the elite. That's governance, and something the lackeys of the wealthy never have to worry about.

Good observations roscoeroscoe Mar 2017 #1
It's because capitalism, left to its own devices, creates the society that the Republicans' masters ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #2
I have but one word to offer to your description of the future Friend or Foe Mar 2017 #10
Thank you so much for that concise explanation, I wish disalitervisum Mar 2017 #11
It's why GHWBush called Reagan's tax structure ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #16
Absolutely. My first thought on waking this a.m. was "are we just going to let them kill everything JudyM Mar 2017 #13
More concise terms you're saying that is no actual effective party working for the common person? nolabels Mar 2017 #15
I suppose it depends on your definition of "effective" ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #17
I agree but would also say.... nolabels Mar 2017 #18
What happens when there's no one left to buy Crunchy Frog Mar 2017 #19
on that day, my dear Frog, the sky will open up, ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #20
n/t babylonsister Mar 2017 #3
Amen to that! kentuck Mar 2017 #4
I don't believe they even want to govern Victor_c3 Mar 2017 #6
K & R SunSeeker Mar 2017 #5
It began a long time ago mountain grammy Mar 2017 #7
They've gone from greedy unscrupulous bastards to raving meth-addled sadists. lagomorph777 Mar 2017 #8
Wow! Paul Krugman is right on the money! Nitram Mar 2017 #9
The Gang that Could Not Shoot Straight Scarsdale Mar 2017 #12
The authoritarian mindset that comprises a republican Nac Mac Feegle Mar 2017 #14
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