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The thing that was always so perplexing and maddening about this whole horrific Reagan/Republican/corporate era, was why it took so long, so long, almost 30 years, to really start the large-scale, organized, popular fight against it, and rejection of it, even when there was evidence of widespread hatred of it, and that Reagan was not popular with the majority of the American people even at the time. Why did highest-level Democrats remain so flummoxed, so duped, that they thought Republicans were "brilliant," "popular," and "so powerful that we could never win against them," and why did they stumble onto and stay on this disastrous "game-plan" of only acting like Republicans/conservatives, and only agreeing with whatever they did, every time, no matter how much evidence there was that the American people wanted them to fight? Why did they think that the anger of Americans telling them to fight Republicans, came from "a small group," when really it was the growing majority, and why were they so completely cut off for so long, even as they pretended to be "framing masters"?
This merciless destruction of Government and all that it can do to help, killing of whole categories of law and regulation, laughing at all the victims it caused, and replacing every single public system, forum or way, with an unregulated profit-making corporate opportunity, allowed this horror to develop so far, so badly, needlessly--if it had only been faced and fought as soon as it was clear what it was. There has now been at least one generation exposed to nothing but commercial propaganda that Government is bad, incompetant, that taxes are bad, Government is the enemy, anyone who proposes programs to help people solve their problems is "making people dependant on Government," "corporations are fun, exciting, new, it is where all the good/fun comes from," regulations are just keeping us back, we would be flying in a Heaven on Earth if "we" just cleared away all the laws. Everything is competition, we need to remain competitive, "we need to lower our standards to remain competitive," "we" need to outsource "our" jobs to remain "competitive" (?), everyone is your competitor, a bizarre new attitude, everything everywhere is competition, competition. A total corporate-Communist style "re-education camp," learning only the corporate way. Deregulate everything, "privatize" (commercialize) everything, lower taxes to nothing, so nothing can be funded--why? I don't know; "it works," yes, "it works," even though there is only evidence going the other way, that it only destroys.
All Government programs should now be shifted, to only give money to corporations--subsidies, tax cuts, bailouts--because they are now the focus of all; but people are unemployed, hungry, unable to pay bills... Give it to the corporations, and they will just hire people, even though they don't. How will that help people? "Dependant on Government for handouts..."--but you give handouts to corporations.. "No, that is an 'investment'..." Corporate management "creates jobs," like saints; but don't the employees create wealth by doing all the work? "No, employees are a drain, an expense.." We are ALWAYS "BAD," they are ALWAYS "GOOD." "We neutrally, and unbiased, support the markets when they fail"--no you don't, you bail out individual corporations you have ties to. Floating in an unending sea of mind-numbing corporate propaganda, turning to mush everything you know. "Corporations Fun--Fun! Don't oppose us, or we'll make you pay like you never imagined..." "There are no 'crimes'; there is only competitive advantage. The only question is whether it works or not."
Started under Reagan--"Greed is Good"--continued under Clinton, who got advice from "D"LC consultants, and sent us down a tragic course we might have avoided, and now to the most horrific, but completely inevitable consequences, where the rich capitalist pricks do not even care if they kill people by the thousands, just to "increase their markets" (euphemism), and now finally, finally, cutting so many people out of the process, hurting so many millions so badly, that now at last, people understand what the argument against it is, by their bitter experience. Why were these things so hard to answer--anything!--by the top-level Democrats, up until this very moment, when the Reagan Republican attitude is so stupid, and so easily dismissed?
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