Breaking News! Cory Booker is filibustering the Senate right now about the Trump/Musk demolition (Dept of Grotesque oligarchic inEfficiencies) and desecration (taking down Jackie Robinson public commemorations, really?!) of the US government, and lots of clever protest signs supporting the Tesla Takedown this past weekend.
Try to remember this, the illegal destruction of government services, the idiot trade war economics, the attack on free speech and the persecution of minorities, all of this has been brought on by the Captain of Industry, Tech Bro, Leon, and The Boss (on reality TV, anyway) and WWE idol, Grump, 8 out of 10, and the top 7, donor class Billionaires, and voters who trust the republicans more on the economy. They're doing this. This is their economy and it is NOT a pro growth and working class living wages economy.
This is a desperate bid by Billionaires to go on destroying the environment with impunity, evade paying their fair share in taxes for essential public infrastructure, and avoid the antitrust prosecution of their monopolizing asses. This is a sick neoliberal fantasy that government should be stripped down to the studs, leaving nothing but a police and military that protects the absolute private property rights of the billionaire oligarchy. And then riding on top this big shambolic wrecking ball is a sadistic orange clown bully who thinks mafioso-like shakedowns and extortion are winning art-of-the-deal economics.
Any other kind of government spending, social security, health care, scientific research, public education, national parks, consumer protections, foreign aid helping poor people, anything other than military spending and Musk's contracts and tax cuts: Total waste, feed it into the woodchipper. If turns out we needed it, we'll add it back later. Maybe, just maybe, this is a good way to tinker with a production process or stress test a lab experiment but this is no way to support human communities. And, as should be obvious, this is no way to run a government or an economy.
Grump & Leon's response: Anybody that doesn't like it gets police state crackdowns. Musk claimed recently that a problem with Western Civilization is too much empathy. I'm assuming 2/3's of the global population living through the legacies of colonialism and imperialism would beg to differ. And such a person should not be in a position of authority in government, reviewing programs and services helping workers, consumers, woman, scientists, health care patients, discriminated against groups; because we know, he told us, he doesn't think they deserve the government's empathy.
At any rate, buying elections and suppressing opposition at this scale is costly and, bottom line, this is not growth economics and it's hard to see how they sustain their assault going like this.
What this is is market fundamentalist shock doctrine at a scale never been tried before, and not coincidentally just when it has become increasingly clear that such policies squeeze and impoverish the many and obstruct democratic government. They don't promote general prosperity but promote billionaire hoarding and, actually, protect industrial activities that are destroying the planet.
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