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While the fucking WH keeps telling us we are not struggling and everything is fine
Those numbers are only gonna keep going up. There's a huge debt bubble that is absolutely going to burst soon and it's going to cause unprecedented hardship
yes, but for the minority scapegoats and other "undesirables" first.
But have you considered that the economy is doing great and that the people struggling with debt should just pull themselves up by the bootstraps and should be blamed and shamed as individuals until they do so?
No one in power will give a shit until it looks like it might hurt the bottom line of the billionaire class.
As long as they keep profiting from keeping us all buried in debt, nothing will change.
The good news is that very system cuts from under its feet its own foundations, and will have the system come crashing down.
best possible economic system
Death to America
Lived experience vs Democratic Bidenomics gaslighting: that’s why the voter base stayed home and ya lost to a clown.
exactly
Groceries triple in price and you have to put them on the cc to survive, only a matter of time before that's due
No word on this from the "Western workers = labor aristocrats" crowd.
Labor aristocrats still exist, there are just fewer and fewer of them as neoliberalism grinds on. Even many petit bourgeois are finding themselves in ever-worsening precarity. Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs
But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” FiveThirtyEight reported last May that “the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,” or roughly 130 percent of the national median. Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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