In good times the less powerful make small gains and bad times the powerful consolidate their power in really bad times the rich are pulled down along with the poor and a new power group rises to the top but only after much destruction.
If things get really bad what new power group can you imagine rising from the ashes. You can bet it won’t be the Green Party. The Fascists' have already sent the Progressives on message, “we are tougher than you.”
The United Neo-Liberal/Conservative Plutocratic Oligarchic Elites are not Progressive. Warren tried to woo them with a go slow approach to Progressive reforms and lost because that plan has not constituency. Rejected by both the Progressives and Neo-Liberals. Sanders tried to cram it down their throats and found he did not have strong enough backing to make that happened.
If Biden wins and the Democrats take the Senate some of what Warren advocated might come to pass.
If by some miracle a UBI and Universal Health Care (MFA) got passed along with an increase in the Minimum Wage. The Plutocratic Oligarchic Elites will have won even more control over your pay and benefits. Remember Liberal Statists are just a Fascist as Conservative Statists.
Does anyone imagine a Green New Deal that does not provide a huge flow of cash from the Federal Government into coffers of the biggest companies in the country. Yes, some small part of the cash will flow through the hands of workers and small businesses but without a doubt it will all end up in the hands of the already rich.
Yes, we need the Green New Deal, with UBI, MFA, increased Minimum wage and infrastructure for a sustainable society but you will not reduce inequality. The rich will keep getting richer faster than the poor get richer. The rich will not become poorer without violence and they are more prepared to defend their riches than anyone who might attack them.
The pandemic will create enormous destruction but the rich will be richer and the poor will be poorer when it is all said and done. And what’s left of our economy will highlight the increased inequality.
They Elites goon squads will not have to fire a shot. The rich are not afraid of needing to fire a few shots if necessary. “Coal operators paid private detectives as well as public law enforcement agents to ensure that union organizers were kept out of the region. In order to accomplish this objective, agents of the coal operators used intimidation, harassment, espionage and even murder.”
Don’t think this could not happen again, just it will be a different industry.
The leaders of the oligopolies that dominate the US economy have done little to stand in Trump’s way as he has dismantled our democracy.
Trump did not dismantle our democracy. Democracy was always an illusion. Elections are a fig leaf for the United Neo-Liberal/Conservative Plutocratic Oligarchic Elites picking their representatives. The Elected represent higher (richer) interests not the electorate. At the request of the Elites, Trump is weakening and dismantling the regulatory mechanisms that were established to curtain the worse excesses of the Elites.
It is amazing that the Elites allowed these regulatory mechanisms to be put in place to prevent Monopolists, Oligarchs and Cartels from even greater abuses of the workforce, consumers, markets and the environments. I see in your story a hint at the need to put these controls back in place and even increase them. Good for that.
TEK
Oh, one small error,
The government is already sending $1200 to every taxpayer
“Tax filers with adjusted gross income up to $75,000 for individuals and up to $150,000 for married couples filing joint returns will receive the full payment. For filers with income above those amounts, the payment amount is reduced by $5 for each $100 above the $75,000/$150,000 thresholds. Single filers with income exceeding $99,000 and $198,000 for joint filers with no children are not eligible.”
You should have said most taxpayers. Some of the rich pay taxes.
TEK
