Thinkers who are unafraid to say the unorthodox like Slavoj Zizek are correct. People wanted drastic change away from neoliberal politics, and they got exactly what they wanted, but they don’t like the results. Although to be fair, the Democrats has been blocking progressives from being a viable and effective alternative against fascists. The Democratic party would rather lose democracy than lose their economic privileges. I don’t really look up to Noam Chomsky anymore but he said along the lines that the American institution was explicitly founded to protect the capital and keep the ordinary people as far away as possible from actual decision making. I didn’t consider that position until we got to where we are now. Both parties’ first and foremost priority is to protect the wealthy and powerful. Yes, I know the Democrats are still the lesser evil, but they act as good cop pig while the Republicans act as bad cop pig. And we all know what we say about cops, they are there to protect the capital first, not the people, no matter if they are good or bad.
Yep. The issue is nobody wants to hear this, because everyone wants to be part of the economically privledged class and thinks they can do no wrong.
part of the reason all this is happeneing is because working class has become so economically deprived and it’s considered shameful to be one of them, on either side of the politican spectrum. all of the politicians and their infrastructure is from the economic elite and their sole interest, no matter their party, is enhancing their own wealth at all costs as quickly as possible.
personally i’m hovering at the top end of the pie, and most of my peers basically think i’m a weirdo/asshole for not chasing corporate stocks to maximimize my gains, and for not trying to get a corpo job to maximize my income. these are the same folks who preach leftism, but only do so by living off investments that come from the labor of their working-class they totally despise.
they are 100% on board with exploitation as long as it means they get their vacations, their expensive cars, their education and housing that costs 6-7 figures. our university system is totally on board with it too, as long as the big fat research grants keep coming they could care who is thrown under the bus, and they don’t want filfthy working class poors on their campuses that require financail aid. they want the nice shiny children of the upper economic pie.
Thinkers who are unafraid to say the unorthodox like Slavoj Zizek are correct. People wanted drastic change away from neoliberal politics, and they got exactly what they wanted, but they don’t like the results. Although to be fair, the Democrats has been blocking progressives from being a viable and effective alternative against fascists. The Democratic party would rather lose democracy than lose their economic privileges. I don’t really look up to Noam Chomsky anymore but he said along the lines that the American institution was explicitly founded to protect the capital and keep the ordinary people as far away as possible from actual decision making. I didn’t consider that position until we got to where we are now. Both parties’ first and foremost priority is to protect the wealthy and powerful. Yes, I know the Democrats are still the lesser evil, but they act as good cop
pigwhile the Republicans act as bad coppig. And we all know what we say about cops, they are there to protect the capital first, not the people, no matter if they are good or bad.Yep. The issue is nobody wants to hear this, because everyone wants to be part of the economically privledged class and thinks they can do no wrong.
part of the reason all this is happeneing is because working class has become so economically deprived and it’s considered shameful to be one of them, on either side of the politican spectrum. all of the politicians and their infrastructure is from the economic elite and their sole interest, no matter their party, is enhancing their own wealth at all costs as quickly as possible.
personally i’m hovering at the top end of the pie, and most of my peers basically think i’m a weirdo/asshole for not chasing corporate stocks to maximimize my gains, and for not trying to get a corpo job to maximize my income. these are the same folks who preach leftism, but only do so by living off investments that come from the labor of their working-class they totally despise.
they are 100% on board with exploitation as long as it means they get their vacations, their expensive cars, their education and housing that costs 6-7 figures. our university system is totally on board with it too, as long as the big fat research grants keep coming they could care who is thrown under the bus, and they don’t want filfthy working class poors on their campuses that require financail aid. they want the nice shiny children of the upper economic pie.