The Real (Secret) Political and Economic War Being Waged Today

[Mr Kobayashi]

I would argue an overwhelming majority of people know that not being able to see a GP is a failure of the small state. They know its because of cuts, they see their welfare shrinking, their spending power decreasing, their libraries closing, sure start gone, schools falling apart, housing scarce, homeless increasing. Some were encouraged to blame immigration for those failings, yet the vast majority who have grown up with the social safety net and the NHS, with council housing and police on the beat see the state is failing and want a return to the days of the much derided "nanny state" where things were very different.

Have a look at the work of Prof Danny Dorling, you can find videos on you tube or read his book "Rule Britannia" its eye opening,

So why didn't they vote for the nanny state party offering nanny state policies?

Do people always blame the small state first, have a look in the GP appointments thread, many in there blame their GP as lazy and workshy.

There's plenty of people who like having a social security net for themselves but deride others as benefit cheats and scroungers and not being prepared to pay any more taxes in themselves.

I'm sure you have heard brexit voters who blame the Germany and the EU for our lower pensions, another one who blamed scroungers on universal credit for his lack of a payrise working for a local authority.

Believing the Big Bus lie wasn't really a big state endorsement, seems like admitting that they were hoodwinked by austerity as the only way.

 

[Rascal]

So why didn't they vote for the nanny state party offering nanny state policies?

Do people always blame the small state first, have a look in the GP appointments thread, many in there blame their GP as lazy and workshy.

There's plenty of people who like having a social security net for themselves but deride others as benefit cheats and scroungers and not being prepared to pay any more taxes in themselves.

I'm sure you have heard brexit voters who blame the Germany and the EU for our lower pensions, another one who blamed scroungers on universal credit for his lack of a payrise working for a local authority.

Believing the Big Bus lie wasn't really a big state endorsement, seems like admitting that they were hoodwinked by austerity as the only way.

Takes us back to the premise of the thread, their is a secret political and economic war being waged today.

In effect we are being gaslit.

 

[inchy14]

I actually agree that most people contributing to the various campaigns aren’t doing it with conscious malice. As you said, it is just the natural progression of wanting to protect wealth (just as feudal lords and aristocrats did in previous eras). And, in the case of those non-elites that regularly defend and shill for billionaires, it comes from the misguided belief (partially fostered and encouraged by said billionaires) that they will one day be a member of the wealthy elite and so need to protect their future wealth and ability to enjoy it.

But the Koch brothers, their varied offshoots, and a few like-minded entities definitely are doing with intention (and conscious malice in some cases). They are largely attempting to direct and manipulating the other wealthy elite and the non-elite alike to their common goal.

There is too much empirical evidence to dismiss that long-running programme. MacLean (and a few others) has done an excellent job exposing their efforts via personal correspondence, public statements, and related organisational documentation.

A new American and British oligarchy (the latter to be exploited by the new American oligarchical class, with some intentional irony) has been their dreams for quite some time.

And they are getting closer and closer to realising it, tragically.

As you said, we need a (as peaceful as possible) revolution to avoid fully becoming new age serfs.

Fuck peaceful…. Times up for some of these cunts, we’re having the puss took out of us on an unprecedented scale, see todays Shell figures for proof of that. Peaceful demonstrations get us nowhere, it’s time to take to the streets and I need a new 55” TV as well!!!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Takes us back to the premise of the thread, their is a secret political and economic war being waged today.

In effect we are being gaslit.

Perhaps they were gaslighted, but it is hard to make the case they were both well informed and so easily misled.

 

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