American leaders decided to "engage" with China and attempt to make it a liberal democracy by making it wealthy. This was based upon the idea that capitalism leads to liberal democracy and also the idea that liberal democracies don't go to war with themselves.
Of course, this ploy also allowed American oligarchs to solve their labor and …
American leaders decided to "engage" with China and attempt to make it a liberal democracy by making it wealthy. This was based upon the idea that capitalism leads to liberal democracy and also the idea that liberal democracies don't go to war with themselves.
Of course, this ploy also allowed American oligarchs to solve their labor and regulatory problems in America, so it had a good side benefit. Plus it accelerated the wealth acquisition by the oligarchs.
Unfortunately, it also permanently weakened the American middle class, increased class division, and economic stratification. This resulted in the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, which for all they came from the left and the right, both had concerns about the power of corporations.
Soon after that we got racial division with Trayvon Martin, then Ferguson, and BLM just in time for Obama's reelection campaign. And then we had the fake Rolling Stone story on UVa and the "war on women" to aid the Hillary campaign.
Woke took off as well. It serves as a class signifier and the rich and powerful to punch down on the lower and middle class.
Perhaps it developed organically, but it seems unlikely. The oligarchs love divide and conquer. And "good leftists" cheer the national security state and large corporations......hmmmm.
American leaders decided to "engage" with China and attempt to make it a liberal democracy by making it wealthy. This was based upon the idea that capitalism leads to liberal democracy and also the idea that liberal democracies don't go to war with themselves.
Of course, this ploy also allowed American oligarchs to solve their labor and regulatory problems in America, so it had a good side benefit. Plus it accelerated the wealth acquisition by the oligarchs.
Unfortunately, it also permanently weakened the American middle class, increased class division, and economic stratification. This resulted in the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, which for all they came from the left and the right, both had concerns about the power of corporations.
Soon after that we got racial division with Trayvon Martin, then Ferguson, and BLM just in time for Obama's reelection campaign. And then we had the fake Rolling Stone story on UVa and the "war on women" to aid the Hillary campaign.
Woke took off as well. It serves as a class signifier and the rich and powerful to punch down on the lower and middle class.
Perhaps it developed organically, but it seems unlikely. The oligarchs love divide and conquer. And "good leftists" cheer the national security state and large corporations......hmmmm.