08-01-2021, 09:33 AM
(08-01-2021, 02:20 AM)Einzige Wrote: You bourgeois socialists absolutely despise the proletariat.
The ill-educated white people did vote heavily for the sociopath Donald Trump. The majority of addicts of meth and opiates in America is the white working class. I'm not going to excuse tycoons and bureaucratic elitists for oppression of workers.
Something is perverse in the upbringing of working-class white people. I can't see any virtue that the K-12 educational system offers future toilers except deference toward economic elites that one can describe easily with the word "oppressors". Maybe the white working class still is so naïve as to think that white Christian privilege still has some tangible value or moral virtue when it is nearly worthless. Non-white and non-Christian Americans have no such illusion.
The great divide in America on politics is "debtor" and "creditor"... and "creditor" makes an easy and obvious rhyme with "predator". Net ownership of large assets makes one a creditor (cash is itself public debt in America), and borrowing of any kind makes one a debtor. To be sure, small-scale creditors have a stake in a vibrant economy to ensure that they remain on the "creditor" side by not losing their shaky hold on savings, real property, and personal belongings. They want reliable income from work or the ownership of a small business (and small-scale entrepreneurs are not oppressors if they are largely getting paid for their toil. Their profit is their income, and divide the profits by time put in, and the economic reward is often little higher than that of assembly-line workers). Big creditors have always sought to put working people into debtto pay off under as harsh terms as is possible. Just think of sharecroppers in old Kukluxistan, serfs in medieval times, or (this is now practically unique to America) anyone who takes out large student loans to have a chance to be something other than a very-marginal member of the working class: farm laborer, retail clerk, domestic servant, or unskilled laborer. For unskilled workers in a plutocratic America, life really is nasty, short, and brutish.
The creditor-debtor relationship has typically been a relationship of predator and prey in most of human history; in neoliberal. plutocratic America it is particularly so. Not owning anything but being in debt makes one a lessee, which ensures that one will never be able to accumulate wealth. Do you not believe me? Then just visit some rent-to-own emporium in America and look at the gaudy, shoddy stuff available as furniture, appliances, or entertainment devices. Or buy a decrepit used car from a tote-the-note lot. Such looks completely irrational from a bourgeois standpoint, but the people who own and operate such places are getting their hooks into poor people who have no viable alternatives. To have no viable alternatives makes one a debt-bonded serf in all but name.
People who work in such places as salesmen are expected to make as many people as possible into abject debtors. The stuff being sold generally has a short life, so it is worth little... but the revenue stream is precious.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.