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Richard Wolff | ELITES BLEED the MASSES DRY.... you mean like a pack of parasite lawyers???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7RuxYiSPc&t=2s
How California Destroyed its Middle Class (A Cautionary Tale) | Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r0m4UCPKHw&t=112s
WE WILL SEE THE REVOLUTION MARCH DOWN WALL STREET FIRST!
From the L Word to Cultural Marxism
During the 1988 presidential campaign, then vice-president George H.W. Bush labelled his counterpart Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts in pejorative fashion with the ‘L’ word, or ‘liberal.’ To be deemed a liberal during that era to many meant you would be perceived as being outside the mainstream, and one who was indecisive or deemed weak in foreign affairs, especially with the Soviet Union, and not a strong supporter of the military. You were most likely to support strict gun control, be seen as soft on crime, and support abortion, as Dukakis did. So negative was the connotation that most politicians of the era ran away from the moniker, with many describing themselves instead as centrists, as Bill Clinton did in 1992.
In the same fashion, throughout the 20th century in the United States, to be labelled a ‘Socialist’ would have been political suicide and would virtually automatically preclude such a candidate from winning any national office. That was the case until 2007, when Bernie Sanders won the Senate seat in Vermont as an avowed ‘Socialist.’ Sanders was not taken all that seriously by the majority in the early years of his service. However, in the democratic primaries of both the 2016 and 2020, it became plain to see that the label ‘Socialist’ was no longer considered derogatory to many Americans given the strength of his grassroots support. His voter base in both primaries revealed that much of his support were young people, aged 18-30, becoming strong contributors to his success.
Today, some sixteen years after Sanders’ election to the Senate, we have five members of Congress and over 150 state legislature officeholders nationally who describe their political delineation as that of ‘Democrat-Socialist,’ which is not a classic political party -- yet. Most contemporary democrats of any stripe do not appear to reflect the democrats of previous generations. Not too many democrats of today are espousing “Ask not what your country can do for you,” and likely advocate the opposite. But adding the term ‘Socialist’ to Democrat is not simply a play on words. It is arranged that way to soften the impact of the term ‘Socialist.’ The reality is, they are Socialists, plain and simple. From the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) website, under the page ‘What is Democratic-Socialism?’ The first line reads: ‘Capitalism is a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit.’ What tripe does that sound like? Further on it states: ‘We want to collectively own the key economic drivers that dominate our lives, such as energy production and transportation.’ One can only wonder what that really means.
Back to the Sanders surprise showing in 2016, and to a lesser extent in 2020. How did that happen? As mentioned, the lion’s share of his voters were young, 18-30. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan ran for reelection against Sen. Walter Mondale. According to the Roper Center at Cornell, this same age group that voted so strongly for Sanders in democratic primaries thirty-plus years later voted 61% for Reagan in the 18-24 bracket, and 57% in the 25-30 bracket. Those numbers reflect all voters in that age group, Democrat, Republican, and independents. These Baby Boomers voted decisively for the conservative, and were a part of a landslide, as Reagan garnered a full 59% of the electorate that year. It begs the question, what changed? Many Boomers had gone to universities and colleges and earned degrees. Many had seen and were aware of the protests and demonstrations of the 60s and 70s that were front page news as they grew up. Even though radicals were the drivers of the protest scene in that era, they were a minority when it came to the overall population.
So why the vast difference in political leanings 1984 to 2016? I think we can credit Marxist thinkers Antonio Gramsci and Rudi Dutschke, with their quest to undermine Western culture with the “Long March Through the Institutions” and replace them with Marxist ideals as playing a significant role. The difference was that instead of promoting failed Soviet-style economic Marxism, this new rendition would be Cultural Marxism, that is, a thrust to radically change culture by focusing on the allegedly oppressed classes, while at the same time undermining America’s institutions. By the late 1980s, this plan was in full swing in academia. New York Times writer Felicity Berringer pointed to this in an article “The Mainstreaming of Marxism in U.S. Colleges” written October 25, 1989. She wrote, “As Karl Marx’s ideological heirs in Communist nations struggle to transform his political legacy, his intellectual heirs on American campuses have virtually completed their own transformation from brash, beleaguered outsiders to assimilated academic insiders. It could be considered a success story for the students of class struggle, who were once regarded as subversives.”
John Ellis, professor at the University of Santa Cruz during this same period wrote in his 2020 book The Breakdown of Higher Education, “Radical politics was a rising force on the campuses, and we were trying to draw attention to the dangers in what was happening while there was still some chance of arresting it. But it’s now clear that we failed to stop the slide, because the political radicals on campus never had any interest in what we had to say. Their purposes were not ours. We were interested in the quality of higher education, but what they cared about was getting control of the campuses so they could use them to promote their political ideology, one so unpopular with the general public that it could not have been advanced in any other way.”
The bitter truth is that the ‘Long March’ worked! It took time, but now we face this massive challenge of how to root it out of our federal, state, and local governments, along with our military, universities, media, school boards, etc. Our young people have been and are being radicalized and propagandized daily. Supporting all this are the Democrats of today, and their DSA allies. They are a united front committed to transforming and gutting America from the inside out. Destroy the middle class, render impotent parental rights, isolate the church as a spewer of hate and intolerance, render ineffective the rule of law, demean the history and the Constitution of these United States. In concert with global elites, the media elite, and the toxic leftist bilge that is constantly oozing from their seats of power, they are doing just that.
Abraham Lincoln spoke of this potential of self-inflicted catastrophe when he said: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”
Which will it be? Life or death? What’s next for America?
(Quotations for this article derived from the work of Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka of the Heritage Foundation.)
Rich Chiero is a writer and a historian deeply concerned with conditions in the United States and the West in general. He can be reached at: rachiero@gmail.com
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WHO RUNS THE NATION? THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THEIR BANKSTERS AND BILLIONAIRES FOR OPEN BORDERS…. or George Soros, their paymaster?
“Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/01/democrat-party-billionaires-for-open.html
George Soros Donates $125 Million to Democrats Before November Midterms
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S OPEN BORDERS FOR CHEAP LABOR
Those are the subliterate, low-skill, non-English-speaking indigents whose own societies are unable or unwilling to usefully educate and employ them. Bring these people here and they not only need a lot of services, they are putty in the hands of leftist demogogues as Hugo Chavez demonstrated - and they are very useful as leftist voters who will support the Soros agenda.
Mocked: Press Sec. Says People Should Pay Their Mortgages, Car Loans - Despite Biden’s Policy on Home, Student Loans
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is being mocked for saying people should make their loan payments, despite the Biden Administration’s policy of preventing foreclosures and forgiving student loan debt.
Jean-Pierre was making a comparison regarding the battle in Congress over the terms of raising the debt ceiling, during a press conference on Monday:
"If you buy a car, you are expected to pay the monthly payment.
“If you buy a home, you are expected to pay the mortgage every month.
“That is the expectation. That is the spending that you put forth or the spending that you may have done before, and now you’re paying every month.
“If you do not pay your car payment, if you do not pay your mortgage, then your credit is going to be bad, it’s going to hurt your credit.”
“It's that simple. It is very, very simple. It is the right thing to do," Jean-Pierre concluded.
Conservatives quickly took to Twitter to call out the hypocrisy.
“Wait, we're being lectured on paying your bills by the administration that tried to maintain the eviction moratorium and bail out college loans?” commentator and author Ben Shapiro tweeted, reacting to a Townhall.com video of the press secretary’s comments.
“What a novel idea. Now do student loans…” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) replied to the video.
“Now do students loans, @PressSec,” former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos also wrote to Jean-Pierre.
Indeed, it took a ruling by the Supreme Court to prevent Pres. Biden from continuing to extend his moratorium on mortgage foreclosures, as The New York Times reported in November 2021:
“The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Biden administration’s latest moratorium on evictions, ending a political and legal dispute during a public health crisis in which the administration’s shifting positions had subjected it to criticism from adversaries and allies alike.”
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“The majority opinion, which was unsigned, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had exceeded its authority.”
Now, Biden is trying to forgive student loans – but, that too may denied by the Supreme Court, which will rule on the president’s plan in June, an update posted Monday by Newsweek reports:
“The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the plan would cost $430 billion over a 30-year period. The Supreme Court, as part of the Biden v. Nebraska case, is expected to make a decision this June on whether the plan will legally stand.”
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“The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced Monday that over 615,000 individuals have had their student loans forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program since October 2021, totaling approximately $42 billion.”
Survey: Most Americans Say Life Is ‘Worse’ Today Than 50 Years Ago
Most Americans feel as though life for “people like them” is worse today than it was five decades ago, a recent Pew Research survey found.
The survey showed Americans with a negative view on how life is for people now. They were asked, “In general, would you say life in America today is better, worse, or about the same as it was 50 years ago for people like you?”
Over half, 58 percent, said they believe life is “worse” for people like them than it was 50 years ago. That reflects a 15-point increase from the 43 percent who said the same in July 2021.
Only 23 percent said they believe life is “better,” and 19 percent said it is “about the same.”
Republicans and Republican leaners are more likely to say life is worse today for people like them than it was back in 1973, as 72 percent said life is “worse.” Just 14 percent said it is better.
A plurality of Democrats also believe it is “worse” today — 43 percent. That reflects a 13-point uptick from the 30 percent who said the same in July 2021.
According to Pew Research:
While both older adults and younger adults are much more likely to say that life today is worse for people like them than to say life is better, there is a sizable age gap on this question. Adults 50 and older are 46 points more likely to say that life is worse today for people like them than they are to say that life is better (65% vs. 19%). Adults ages 18 to 49, by comparison, are 24 points more likely to say life today is worse (51% vs. 27%).
Coinciding with that is the fact that Americans tend to have a pessimistic view of the future. Sixty-six percent believe the U.S. economy will be “weaker” in 2050, and 71 percent believe the U.S. will be “less important” in the world 27 years down the road.
Further, 81 percent believe that the wealth gap will “grow,” and 77 percent believe the country will be even more politically divided by 2050. According to Pew Research, “Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are somewhat more likely than Democrats and Democratic leaners to have pessimistic views” on the country’s future, although a majority on both sides have negative views.
The latest results, taken March 27 to April 2, 2023, come well over two years in to Biden’s presidency, which has been hallmarked by historically high inflation and high gas prices, which continuously broke records last year.
The highest recorded average occurred last summer, as regular gasoline reached an average of $5.016 on June 14, 2022. Diesel broke an all-time record high days later, reaching $5.816 on June 19, 2022.
Additionally, a recent CBS News/YouGov poll found 97 percent of Americans viewing Biden’s economy as a top issue of concern.
Americans’ negative views on the state of the country and fond looks to the past also come as the radical left pushes social issues even further, attempting to normalize woke gender ideology and even push it on children — something the Biden administration wholly supports as well. This has prompted individual states to take action, passing legislation to protect children from these attempts to normalize gender dysphoria and transgenderism.
There has also been severe backlash for companies, such as Anheuser-Busch, for seemingly promoting this agenda as well.
Jon Tester Swore He Wouldn't Depend Upon Lobbyists as a Senator. Now Lobbyists Are Writing His Bills.
Emails show Montana Dem's office collaborated with industry lobbyists on March hemp farming bill
During his second Senate run, Jon Tester promised Montanans that, unlike his opponent, he wouldn't depend upon lobbyists to make decisions. Now internal emails show the Democrat is letting lobbyists write his legislation.
Hemp industry lobbyists both proposed and crafted a bill Tester introduced in March to change regulations in a way that benefits industrial hemp farmers, according to private emails obtained by Politico. While the practice isn't necessarily uncommon on Capitol Hill, Tester's willingness to let industry lobbyists shape their own regulations runs counter to the campaign rhetoric that sent him to the Senate in the first place. Tester in 2012 hammered his GOP opponent for relying on lobbyists to make legislative decisions, something the Democrat swore he would not do.
"We've got congressman [Denny] Rehberg, who … depends upon lobbyists for the decisions he makes on this country," Tester said during an October 2012 debate. "I depend upon Montanans. There's where the difference is."
Tester has used his everyman, outsider image to win three Senate elections in Montana, a state that backed former president Donald Trump by double digits in both 2016 and 2020. That image, however, is beginning to deteriorate as Tester seeks a fourth term. During his inaugural Senate bid, for example, Tester said it's "not right" for lawmakers to hire lobbyists as staff. The Democrat in April tapped a former lobbyist to lead his campaign. Tester was also Congress's top recipient of lobbyist cash in 2018, and his campaign has spent more than a million dollars at swanky Beltway restaurants since 2006, despite Tester's insistence that he prefers to eat at home with meat from his Montana farm.
Still, those moves haven't stopped Tester from portraying himself as a "tireless defender of rural America and the Montana way of life" who "stands up to special interests" and "holds all of Washington accountable." Those declarations fall flat under scrutiny, National Republican Senatorial Committee spokeswoman Maggie Abboud said.
"Jon Tester is a shameless pay-to-play politician who rakes in millions from Washington lobbyists while allowing them to write his bills almost word-for-word," Abboud said in a statement. "Montanans need an independent voice in Washington, not a swamp creature like Jon Tester."
Tester, whose campaign did not return a request for comment, downplayed the hemp industry's role in crafting his March bill. A staff member told Politico that Tester simply took "feedback" from "Montana small business owners." But emails show a registered lobbyist for a top U.S. hemp company contacted Tester's office in February with a "draft bill" that the Democrat later introduced. A Montana Department of Agriculture attorney who also received the draft bill said the hemp industry "definitely wrote some of the language." And an aide to Indiana Republican senator Mike Braun, who cosponsored the legislation with Tester, said Braun was uncomfortable with the lobbyist work on the bill.
"Our chief of staff called the chair of one of these advocacy groups to tell them we were negotiating directly with the other office and told them frankly we did not want them involved in our process," the aide told Politico.
Tester in February launched his bid for a fourth Senate term, saying Montanans "need a fighter holding Washington accountable." His campaign has raised more than $5 million in 2023—top contributors include United Parcel Service and former Obama White House "fixer" Jim Messina. Tester has not yet attracted a top-tier GOP opponent, but a number of Montana Republicans are reportedly weighing Senate bids, including state attorney general Austin Knudsen and Reps. Ryan Zinke and Matt Rosendale.
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