The Republicans have been setting the terms of the debate for the last 30 years because most of the Boomers and many GenXers believed the GOP rhetoric about neoliberal economics.
What the Boomers and GenXers didn’t understand was how much they were living off the residual benefits of the investments made in the New Deal and the Great Soci…
The Republicans have been setting the terms of the debate for the last 30 years because most of the Boomers and many GenXers believed the GOP rhetoric about neoliberal economics.
What the Boomers and GenXers didn’t understand was how much they were living off the residual benefits of the investments made in the New Deal and the Great Society.
Now that we have had nearly four decades of attenuated investment in the Public Good (infrastructure, healthcare, education) the younger generations are starting to see that neoliberalism is not all that great and that maybe we do need a more vigorous public sector.
And the Republicans and their donors are fighting it tooth and nail.
...which is why we need to fight back tooth and nail.
Not every rich person is an amoral sociopath, comforting as it is to think so—more to the point, not every rich person is willfully blind to what's going on around them. We're starting to hear talk about how the tax code and wages need to be more equitable from the 1%—not a LOT, mind, but some of the world's richest people are starting to say that a higher tax rate for them, along with higher wages and government-sponsored benefits for their workers, combined with real action on not turning the planet we're living on now into a hellscape, would not be the destruction of society that the Right alleges it to be.
I think it's less altruism than fear of starving mutant mobs with nothing to lose, if not for themselves than for their children and grandchildren—but I'll take fear if it helps the rest of us. 🤷♂️
I know that. And not every working class person is pro-union and pro-proletariat.
People are complex and often be contradictory.
Fundamentally we need to understand that we really are all in this together. There is no “escape” where the rich people can flee to. And frankly, they shouldn’t want to. We are all human beings and need to behave as such.
Tell that Elon Musk, who honestly thinks he can colonize Mars for the Superrich like him!
Frankly, I'd be amazed if he gets a low Earth orbit space station up that he and a handful of his deluded disciples can cram themselves into—which, given how life on space stations looks like? Is NO Paradise!
The Republicans have been setting the terms of the debate for the last 30 years because most of the Boomers and many GenXers believed the GOP rhetoric about neoliberal economics.
What the Boomers and GenXers didn’t understand was how much they were living off the residual benefits of the investments made in the New Deal and the Great Society.
Now that we have had nearly four decades of attenuated investment in the Public Good (infrastructure, healthcare, education) the younger generations are starting to see that neoliberalism is not all that great and that maybe we do need a more vigorous public sector.
And the Republicans and their donors are fighting it tooth and nail.
...which is why we need to fight back tooth and nail.
Not every rich person is an amoral sociopath, comforting as it is to think so—more to the point, not every rich person is willfully blind to what's going on around them. We're starting to hear talk about how the tax code and wages need to be more equitable from the 1%—not a LOT, mind, but some of the world's richest people are starting to say that a higher tax rate for them, along with higher wages and government-sponsored benefits for their workers, combined with real action on not turning the planet we're living on now into a hellscape, would not be the destruction of society that the Right alleges it to be.
I think it's less altruism than fear of starving mutant mobs with nothing to lose, if not for themselves than for their children and grandchildren—but I'll take fear if it helps the rest of us. 🤷♂️
I hope he does colonize Mars. And then he can take himself and his fanboys with him.
I know that. And not every working class person is pro-union and pro-proletariat.
People are complex and often be contradictory.
Fundamentally we need to understand that we really are all in this together. There is no “escape” where the rich people can flee to. And frankly, they shouldn’t want to. We are all human beings and need to behave as such.
Tell that Elon Musk, who honestly thinks he can colonize Mars for the Superrich like him!
Frankly, I'd be amazed if he gets a low Earth orbit space station up that he and a handful of his deluded disciples can cram themselves into—which, given how life on space stations looks like? Is NO Paradise!