07-01-2016, 07:01 AM
Quote:Capitalists recognized at a certain point that they were better off getting smaller margins of profit on larger volumes of sales than gigantic margins on small numbers of sales. That required that capitalists transform workers into consumers. If one lives in barracks-like accommodations, sees one's children die of hunger and disease to which the economic elites seem exempt, and lives in crowding and filth so that elites of any kind can live in opulent splendor, then one might see almost any radical change in the political order as a cure to one's distress. But workers who have cars, furniture, and electronic entertainments and who see their kids attending school might have something to lose in the event of a revolution in the name of the proletariat.
But in recent decades the conservatives have gotten so greedy as to try and recreate these conditions. Which is why the "hardhats" recruited into the Republican Party during the Great Backlash against the Consciousness Revolution (and their Baby Buster and Post-Buster children) were no longer willing to play second fiddle to the Overclass, and overthrew them and took over the party for themselves. This is how Donald Trump was "created" - not by anything Barack Obama has done, as per the Overclass' preferred narrative.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892