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By Phil Rockstroh
Regardless of the dissembling of
corporate state propagandists, free market capitalism has always been a
government subsidized, bubble-inflating, swindlers' game, in which,
psychopathic personalities (not “job creators” but con job perpetrators)
thrive. By the exploitation of the many, a ruthless few have amassed
large amounts of capital by which they dominate mainstream narratives
and compromise elected and governmental officials, thereby gaming the
system for their benefit.
Historically,
the system has proven so demeaning to the majority of the population
that the elite, from time to time, have, as a last resort, due to fear
of a popular uprising, introduced a bit of socialism into the system,
allowing a modicum of swag to funnel downward, and, as a result, the
ranks of the middle class have been expanded. For a time, the
bourgeoisie are bamboozled by the sales pitch that one day they will be
affluent enough to be freed from the taxing obligations of a dismal,
debt-beholden existence, when, in fact, they sowed their fate (like
those swindled by opening their bank accounts after receiving email from
parties claiming to be momentarily cash-strapped Nigerian royalty) by
their own greed i.e. by their self-imprisonment within their own narrow,
self-serving view of existence.
These
stultifying circumstances will level an atmosphere of restiveness and
nebulous rage. In general, the middle class can be counted on to detest
the poor…blaming those born devoid of societal advantage and political
influence for the impoverished circumstances that were in place long
before the happenstance of their birth. Moreover, in a bit of noxious
casuistry, as despicable as it is delusional, all too many members of
the middle class have been induced by grift artists, employed by the
ruling elite, to blame their own declining social status and attendant
beleaguered existence on the poor.
"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail." --John Donne
This has
proven to be an effective, time-tested grift: Because as long as the
animus of the middle class remains fixated on the poor, the criminal
cartels known as the economic elite can continue to ply their trade. Of
course, in reality, by their greed and complicity, what the middle class
has gained is this: trustee status in the capitalist workhouse.
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