Used to have a clipping of a Slick Willy cartoon affixed to my refrigerator....he was a fat cat squeezing a tiny mouse by the neck. The caption stated, "Wait, I'm a middle-class taxpayer!"
P.S. I'll bet the cat committed "suicide" too.
Posted on 01/20/2024 3:16:50 PM PST by TBP
The Western world is experiencing the most dramatic political realignment since the rise of socialism over a century ago. The driving force then was the rise of the working class, created by the Industrial Revolution. Today, it is the shift to an economy dominated by information industries, technology, finance and media. This new economic order, just like that which arose a century ago, is creating a highly disruptive political dynamic and a shift in historic class allegiances.
The wealthiest people today are no longer fans of the free market. Instead, they and their businesses are deeply tied to the progressive managerial state. Parties that once identified with working-class interests – like America’s Democrats, Canada’s Liberals, the Australian Labor Party and the UK Labour Party – all increasingly rely on well-educated professionals and the administrative class for support.
By contrast, many parties and movements that were once associated with the upper classes – such as the American Republicans, Canadian Conservatives and the British Tories – increasingly depend on working- and middle-class voters. These voters have been the force behind the rise of Donald Trump, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, France’s Marine Le Pen, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders and various right-wing parties in Sweden, Finland, Spain and Denmark.
Three issues are accelerating this realignment – climate policy, immigration and divisions over cultural attitudes. Support for Net Zero is almost universal among establishment institutions. Billionaires like Elon Musk, green capitalists in Silicon Valley and Wall Street investors all seek great opportunities in what US treasury secretary Janet Yellen has called ‘the greatest economic opportunity of our time’ – namely, addressing the so-called climate crisis.
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The elite can unilaterally raise prices to effectively bypass taxation, the middle class and working class can’t unilaterally raise the price of their labor.
Like we did in 2020 and 2022?
“US treasury secretary Janet Yellen has called ‘the greatest economic opportunity of our time’ – namely, addressing the so-called climate crisis.”
In which the middle and lower class is economically bleed white through taxation and inflation to enrich the upper class.
There are still a few of us left with common sense enough to understand what creating value means.
The rest devise methods to extract value without increasing standards of living.
What garbage is the author smoking?
Sure...”The era of big government is over.” ~ BJ Clinton 1996
It seems we hide it awfully well.
As long as the left keeps stealing elections it’s a moot point.
“Like we did in 2020 and 2022?”
No kidding. How much more of that winning can we take?
The left has always been a minority. but has been quite adept at inflating their numbers and convincing the gullible to accept their cheat as “legitimate”.
The low-information voter will always vote for “free” stuff, which the Left constantly offers them.
The article has it completely backwards. The left taxes the right to pay for their lunch which they eat and the right pays for its lunch with money they earn. Essentially the right pays for everyone’s lunch.
Used to have a clipping of a Slick Willy cartoon affixed to my refrigerator....he was a fat cat squeezing a tiny mouse by the neck. The caption stated, "Wait, I'm a middle-class taxpayer!"
P.S. I'll bet the cat committed "suicide" too.
Take away the tax subsidies and laws mandating solar installation. How many of those installation jobs would continue to exist? Then there’s ethanol mandates(Iowa). Why has Trump promised to keep them? Does he really believe ethanol is good?
Well, the voting machines and election employees lean (way) leftard. The public doesn’t count any more.
USA. Brazil. Poland. Lunchtime must be over.
The left are better opportunists when it comes to manipulating a stupid populace. The right does not understand the game. The left has no moral underpinnings, so they can lie with no contrition and with impunity.
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