Here's the problem, as I see it. All of the pro-working class policies sound like big giveaways, and to a certain extent they are. Touting them is appealing, but the bigger issue, in my mind, is that the real giveaways have been to shareholders and CEOs, as Sanders has pointed out. Those corporate giveaways obtained through market manipu…
Here's the problem, as I see it. All of the pro-working class policies sound like big giveaways, and to a certain extent they are. Touting them is appealing, but the bigger issue, in my mind, is that the real giveaways have been to shareholders and CEOs, as Sanders has pointed out. Those corporate giveaways obtained through market manipulations and price-gouging were the corporate world's response to aid the Biden Administration gave struggling citizens to weather the pandemic and its fallout. These guys always muscle their way to the dining table because it's never enough to fill themselves up at their chef-run kitchens. Bailouts, subsidies, tax breaks, bankruptcy relief, and government contracts are never enough for them if there's any box of cash set aside for working Americans. No, working folks get pushed aside just like Trump pushed aside Montenegro's prime minister at that NATO meeting lest anyone forget who the big cheeses are. I think that's what's been happening, and the message that needs the most reinforcing is that the investor class wants guaranteed profits while the workers are not even guaranteed minimum wage paydays. Say it loud and say it louder. Let them whine about "unseemly" class wars. Let them wave their rags to riches stories. But be quick to point out that in a world of risks, one seldom hears riches to rags stories because the investor class always knows how to protect their wealth. "Capital loss carry forward loophole, anybody?"
Ever wonder why the U.S. doesn't have a real socialist or social democratic party? Why even labor unions -- no, make that *especially* labor unions bend over backwards to avoid the "taint" of socialism? Ever wonder why the FBI has for many decades cracked down hard on the left of center -- especially when it's Black -- and totally ignored dangers from the right, right up to the point where right-wingers tried to overturn a presidential election? Since at least the late 19th century, Big Money (corporations, uber-wealthy individuals, etc.) has devoted considerable time and expense to busting unions and electing its friends to high offices. It's also done a brilliant job of co-opting much of the white working class by convincing it that people of color are the real enemy.
Here's the problem, as I see it. All of the pro-working class policies sound like big giveaways, and to a certain extent they are. Touting them is appealing, but the bigger issue, in my mind, is that the real giveaways have been to shareholders and CEOs, as Sanders has pointed out. Those corporate giveaways obtained through market manipulations and price-gouging were the corporate world's response to aid the Biden Administration gave struggling citizens to weather the pandemic and its fallout. These guys always muscle their way to the dining table because it's never enough to fill themselves up at their chef-run kitchens. Bailouts, subsidies, tax breaks, bankruptcy relief, and government contracts are never enough for them if there's any box of cash set aside for working Americans. No, working folks get pushed aside just like Trump pushed aside Montenegro's prime minister at that NATO meeting lest anyone forget who the big cheeses are. I think that's what's been happening, and the message that needs the most reinforcing is that the investor class wants guaranteed profits while the workers are not even guaranteed minimum wage paydays. Say it loud and say it louder. Let them whine about "unseemly" class wars. Let them wave their rags to riches stories. But be quick to point out that in a world of risks, one seldom hears riches to rags stories because the investor class always knows how to protect their wealth. "Capital loss carry forward loophole, anybody?"
Ever wonder why the U.S. doesn't have a real socialist or social democratic party? Why even labor unions -- no, make that *especially* labor unions bend over backwards to avoid the "taint" of socialism? Ever wonder why the FBI has for many decades cracked down hard on the left of center -- especially when it's Black -- and totally ignored dangers from the right, right up to the point where right-wingers tried to overturn a presidential election? Since at least the late 19th century, Big Money (corporations, uber-wealthy individuals, etc.) has devoted considerable time and expense to busting unions and electing its friends to high offices. It's also done a brilliant job of co-opting much of the white working class by convincing it that people of color are the real enemy.