Condescension is the right word. Our replacements are at the border fence in El Paso. They no longer want us. They intend to publicly finance our replacements.
The parable of boiling a frog comes to mind.
Leftists complain about Third World “sweat shops”. But working in a factory results in a reliable income to buy food with, unlike doing subsistence farming, where a drought means your family dies of starvation.
The middle class is unsuitable for politics.
The experiment has failed. To prevent genocide we need a Sulla, or a Pinochet.
This oped may be the best history and economic lesson of this decade.
We either help President Trump turn back the daily attacks on the Deplorable/us, or our children and grandkids if there are any will live terrible life styles.
The left wants a country featuring 2% “Elite”,25% “Middle Class” and 73% “Welfare Parasite”.
US Decline - bump for later....
Communism’s greatest enemy is not the capitalist, rather it is the bourgeiosie, the fat, happy middle-class wage drone or shopkeeper who has little concern beyond his creature comforts. That group is most likely to resist change simply because of inertia.
Should be posted in “Bloggers”, not “News”, per FR rules.
I don’t know... Who are all of the people around me buying 4 to 5 hundred thousand dollar homes, 75 thousand dollar trucks plus a 35 thousand dollar wifes car and going on vacation twice yearly? Damn near everyone in my solidly middle class burg is burning money like they can print it.
When will a frog jump out of the slowly boiling pot?
” How Much Longer Will The Middle Class Politely Tolerate Its Own Destruction?”
Obama did all he could to destroy the Middle Class. The Democrats are continuing that effort because they know a country with a strong Middle Class is very difficult to overthrow. Pres. Trump is trying to rebuild it.
” How Much Longer Will The Middle Class Politely Tolerate Its Own Destruction?”
Obama did all he could to destroy the Middle Class. The Democrats are continuing that effort because they know a country with a strong Middle Class is very difficult to overthrow. Pres. Trump is trying to rebuild it.
Ahhhh...does Venezuela ring a bell? They waited too damn long to make their move to get their country back...TOO DAMN LATE!! WE ARE LOOKING AT OUR FUTURE folks!! ....becoming toooo damn late!!
Taxes in the big cities are a problem, and globalism.
But also honestly people vote against their own economic best interest for other social reasons. They vote to give tax breaks to the richest few and don’t support raising minimum wages at the same time and don’t like unions. They forget the reasons things got better in the 1900s was from workers rebellions that people died for. Jeff Bezos is basically the Carnegie or Vanderbilt of his day. Its that thing where southern working class whites were Democrats until LBJ signed civil rights and ended jim crow and they all went republican and it has never been corrected
“Millions of people braved the dangers of travel, the uncertainties of life in a new land, the difficulties of learning a new language, the prejudice and hostility they knew they would encounter, the daunting challenges of starting at the bottom, and the absence of government giveaways and freely chose to immigrate to the United States.”
Heck, that was the easy part. They also had to deal with engines ready to take their heads off if they left the East Coast.
Good blog post.
Even now, with virulent vitriol and hatred on full display, much of it is minimized or rationalized by people who should know better. The corruption of the “middle-grounders” may run deeper than the statists and the collectivists, who at least no longer try to hide their agenda and acknowledge that freedom cannot coexist with the unlimited governmental power they covet.
Someone has a clue... and pray tell, where do we go from here?
Good article. Thanks for posting!
My how the left does hate the middle class.
When the rat word games don’t effect us anymore and the tiger is tired of getting poked and is let out of his cage