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zzambrosius_02Here is something I wrote a while ago, and originally posted in a very different forum. I'm putting up here because...WTB, why not?
OPINION ALERT: the following post consists almost entirely of unsupported assertions, which means it is an Opinion. This message is to remind you that, although I state these assertions as though they were facts, they constitute an Opinion, and all the evidence I have in support of this is Observation.
Democrats and Republicans? Conservatives and Liberals? All of that is distraction, Spectacle. It is meant to keep our eyes off the ball.
Here is the reality: Both major parties are actually “Corporatist”. Owned by, supported by, (and supporters of) what used to be called Big Business. The arguments between the parties that all the Media outlets (ALL owned by Big Business) publicize as liberal-conservative spatting are actually the tip of an iceberg: a disagreement between factions of the ruling class about how to keep poor people poor and powerless, (and ignorant) and themselves rich (and therefore powerful).
A great deal of what passes for Conservative vs. Liberal argument is actually the echoes of that factional disagreement: a disagreement about how best to transfer tax money into the pockets of large corporations and the owners and managers thereof _without letting us notice_.
The ACA [‘Obamacare’] is a means of transferring tax money to for-profit health insurance companies. It was thought up by Republican think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation. The individual mandate was a ‘conservative’ innovation, co-opted and made law by the ‘liberal’ wing of the corporatist oligarchy.
If the above is true, arguing about who is responsible for the current mess is more distraction. It serves the interests of the ruling class. We all ought to stop.
There are better ways to go, and a better world to build. We can’t even start to talk about that until we see thru the fog.
OPINION ALERT: the following post consists almost entirely of unsupported assertions, which means it is an Opinion. This message is to remind you that, although I state these assertions as though they were facts, they constitute an Opinion, and all the evidence I have in support of this is Observation.
Democrats and Republicans? Conservatives and Liberals? All of that is distraction, Spectacle. It is meant to keep our eyes off the ball.
Here is the reality: Both major parties are actually “Corporatist”. Owned by, supported by, (and supporters of) what used to be called Big Business. The arguments between the parties that all the Media outlets (ALL owned by Big Business) publicize as liberal-conservative spatting are actually the tip of an iceberg: a disagreement between factions of the ruling class about how to keep poor people poor and powerless, (and ignorant) and themselves rich (and therefore powerful).
A great deal of what passes for Conservative vs. Liberal argument is actually the echoes of that factional disagreement: a disagreement about how best to transfer tax money into the pockets of large corporations and the owners and managers thereof _without letting us notice_.
The ACA [‘Obamacare’] is a means of transferring tax money to for-profit health insurance companies. It was thought up by Republican think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation. The individual mandate was a ‘conservative’ innovation, co-opted and made law by the ‘liberal’ wing of the corporatist oligarchy.
If the above is true, arguing about who is responsible for the current mess is more distraction. It serves the interests of the ruling class. We all ought to stop.
There are better ways to go, and a better world to build. We can’t even start to talk about that until we see thru the fog.
