Comment Re:If everyone loses their jobs... (Score 1) 530
Story of civilization. Keep the rabble divided against each other or distracted with outside enemies so they don't ever stop to see who's really causing all their problems.
I think the elites are terrified. I think Occupy Wall Street scared them shitless, that there could actually be mass uprisings. Globally. They're terrified of how quickly information spreads today. They saw the Arab Spring, what twitter can do. And they're running out of things to divide people over. Americans are sick of the war on terror and the war on drugs. They're legalizing or decriminalizing pot all over the place so they won't have that boogeyman anymore. Flagrant racism is pretty well dead. They probably thought they'd get a few more decades out of hate for gays, but the whole gay marriage thing went from something that never existed in the history of civilization to a right supported by 65% of Americans in the span of about 13 years.
It's unfortunate that the Republican/Democrat thing still works. I wonder how well it'll work in 2016. Obama was such a disappointment to the left, I don't know if they'll really get behind another Democratic candidate who's obviously just another corporate puppet. The Republican party is dying. Young people don't support them at all. The NSA scandals revealed that Republicans and Democrats march to the exact same tune when it comes to fucking over the people on behalf of the corporate masters and the only real "difference" between them is on social wedge issues that become less and less important when people are broke and starving.
The more educated, the more interconnected people get, the easier it is to see what's going on behind the curtain. Regular people are waking up. I wonder where that will lead.