Neither party can turn back history.
The enormous advantage that the USA had post WWII is over.
Throw in the fact that techology has dramatically cahnged the business models and the means of production.
For the American middle class the US economy peaked in the early 70's, and the fate of the middle class is in doubt unless we change the social contract.
Why?
Because capital is now KING, folks, and labor is neutered by the laws that BIG CAPITAL now controls/
Capital is now freer to migrate anyplace where it can find a return on investment than ever in history.
Capital exists in an international unified world, like labor does not.
As a consequence of that change in geopolitical power, national prosperity is no longer as important to BIG CAPITAL as it once was.
The BIG CHANGE happened, of course, when the long faultering Soviet Empire collapsed.
Once the Soviet ceased being a real threat to the "FREE WORLD's" big capital class, FORTRESS AMERICA ceased to be something that BIG CAPITAL class really needed to support.
To be more precise, what big capital no longer really needs is the American people --to man their factories, and to man their armies or to pay for it, either.
And as we all know, that which capital no longer needs big capital no longer cherishes and protects.
So yes, I would say that the USA that we knew, that dfemocratic republic superpower of CITIZENS THAT MATTER, is over.
It's been going down for quite some time, really
The structure, that is to say the government, and its military might, are still in reserve (sort of, its funded by debts!), but what actually happens to the American people is only of some small interest to the MASTERS.
I suspect that US NATIONALISM is really what's dead.
Greed TRUMPS patriotism, folks.
The enormous advantage that the USA had post WWII is over.
Throw in the fact that techology has dramatically cahnged the business models and the means of production.
For the American middle class the US economy peaked in the early 70's, and the fate of the middle class is in doubt unless we change the social contract.
Why?
Because capital is now KING, folks, and labor is neutered by the laws that BIG CAPITAL now controls/
Capital is now freer to migrate anyplace where it can find a return on investment than ever in history.
Capital exists in an international unified world, like labor does not.
As a consequence of that change in geopolitical power, national prosperity is no longer as important to BIG CAPITAL as it once was.
The BIG CHANGE happened, of course, when the long faultering Soviet Empire collapsed.
Once the Soviet ceased being a real threat to the "FREE WORLD's" big capital class, FORTRESS AMERICA ceased to be something that BIG CAPITAL class really needed to support.
To be more precise, what big capital no longer really needs is the American people --to man their factories, and to man their armies or to pay for it, either.
And as we all know, that which capital no longer needs big capital no longer cherishes and protects.
So yes, I would say that the USA that we knew, that dfemocratic republic superpower of CITIZENS THAT MATTER, is over.
It's been going down for quite some time, really
The structure, that is to say the government, and its military might, are still in reserve (sort of, its funded by debts!), but what actually happens to the American people is only of some small interest to the MASTERS.
I suspect that US NATIONALISM is really what's dead.
Greed TRUMPS patriotism, folks.
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