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In reply to the discussion: Why Republicans Are Opposed to Supporting the Poor - An Open Secret [View all]Texin
(2,851 posts)There will continue to be population growth with rapid die-off that the oligarch-kleptocrats can exploit for bare subsistence wages up to a point, but their other so-called polices exploit the Earth's natural resources and endanger, hell, they essentially doom the Earth to climate destruction and it's rapidly approaching. I am not certain that all the reassurances that the climate is not in jeopardy is not a delusion they are trying to maintain for themselves as much as for the rest of the masses they are hoping to delude. At some very near point in future they will be seeing the ultimate results of their economic agenda gone mad. There will be epic crop failures and famines. The first people to die off as a result of food crop collapse will be the poorest and most physically challenged individuals. When the working serfs that are supposed to support food production are no longer able to pay for their own physical sustenance, there won't be workers to man the machines or hand-pick what the crops that are still producing have to be plucked. There won't be food enough left to feed the bloated rich unless they plan to resort to cannibalism. Which I wouldn't rule out, actually. However, the planet will be in such a dire condition that they won't be able to draw air on it. How many retrofitted nuclear missile silos or new underground bunkers are there in the world anyway? And how long would say the Kochs or the tRumps or any of their ilk be able to live in those conditions?
If they think they're ultimately going to escape the same fate that the underclasses are, they are more deluded that even the most profoundly ill mental patient.