Destitution & denial

Greetings good citizen, Just as many of you 'confuse' yourself with Middle Class [really not your fault since 'Working Class' disappeared from the public lexicon around the advent of 'Morning in America', only to be resurrected this past election cycle by the same party that banished it thirty years ago.

But you aren't interested in 'history' are you?

All you know is things are going 'wrong' and those in charge of 'correcting the wrongness' keep attacking things that make the original problem worse.

Sort of on the idea of trying to extinguish a fire using gasoline...

For a 'divided nation' there is a definite consensus regarding the 'wrongness' of how our affairs are managed.

What should we 'do' about this?

Isn't it obvious? The answer is nothing.

Like today's title, many of you live in denial. Donald will 'drain the swamp'...by dumping more alligators in it!

What's the 'destitution' part about?

Again, obviously, most of you are in denial about your destitution.

With the 'evaporation' of HELOCS that allowed you to 'live beyond your means' [they're TRYING to resuscitate the housing market but the problem they ran into the first time, too many paupers and not enough princes is keeping it a 'buyers market'.]

Many of you have squeezed yourself dry, financially, to cover the whipsaw effects of rising credit card debt and shrinking home equity.

We once again arrive at the 'capitalist conundrum', if your job doesn't pay you enough to live on it's not your bosses problem, it's YOURS!

STOP:

How many of you would 'opt-in' to 'Capitalist Utopia'...where we all were 'self-employed' and made our living 'vending' to one another?

Think capitalism is 'predatory' now? Imagine a world/society where 'unregulated capitalism' reigned? [Why unregulated? Who do you suppose 'for profit' police would protect if not those who could afford to pay?]

Remember, in capitalist utopia EVERYBODY would have their own gig...so 'police' would become 'rent-a-thugs' Justice for the highest bidder. [With all that implies, the least scrupulous keeping the baddest thugs 'on retainer'.]

Worse, think of all the things that would disappear because production lines would vanish. Oil, refined petroleum products, electricity [although the technology exists to automate the plant. the 'crew' necessary to service the generators is another, er, difficulty to be overcome.

Which is to point out that Capitalist Utopia CAN'T EXIST.

Besides, you'd spend all your 'free time' fighting off the marauders. [The landless and tool-less that have no skills to trade...and they are Legion!]

Wait, is this beginning to sound like the here and now?

Pretty much!

Any of you 'taking offense' to the being called 'destitute'?

Well, it depends on your definition of destitution, doesn't it?

Takes a certain degree of honesty to admit you have little to lose. Some folks have their faces rubbed in it every day so they have no illusions about their circumstances.

Often the only thing separating the honest from their peers (or folks even worse off than they are) is Pride.

Ever wonder why Pride is considered a sin?

Few remember this but there was a time when 'stupid' was considered 'God's Judgement', that we should all pity the none too swift because god was punishing them.

Now we no longer 'pity' them...because they're 'special'.

Is anyone else bothered by the lies we tell ourselves?

Does anyone still wonder why society is incapable of facing reality? [Not a rhetorical question, good citizen, look at the evidence.]

For those of you that didn't see this coming, we have arrived 'full circle' to the question of 'what are we going to do about it?

Same as above...nothing?

Remember that answer when the streets are running in blood.

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner