Default System of History

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But for the example of the U.S., the default economy of history is comprised of rulers and workers, with no influential middle class. This is true under communism as well as under colonizing, state-run corporatism (which is what modern communism amounts to). If the U.S. fails to preserve its borders and identity, then nothing stands in the way of rule-of-all under a fluxing, worldwide cadre of despots, corporatists and fanatics. That Establishment, seeking the default position on behalf of elites and dupes, never stops trying to eat the U.S. middle class, until it expires. Apart from lip-servicing for dupes, the Establishment never has its heart in defending U.S. borders, nor in defending economic freedom and opportunity for America’s own middle class.
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Rather, elite corporatists work with easily-bribed dupes to erase U.S. borders and to ship U.S. industry overseas. This they never cease to “inform” us is because they “know best how to fix things” and “free trade raises all boats.” Plus, don’t you see, they “earn” the right to force U.S. workers to compete with worldwide serf labor, indentured to corporations that operate hand in hand with governments. When they say “land of the free,” they mean freedom to harness American laborers as commodities to buy and sell in the worldwide (crony-manipulated, artificial) “marketplace,” where it’s only “right” that American laborers should be forced to compete with laborers who are already under the harness of foreign despots and corporate wise guys. The siren rationale they sew into the consciousness of dupes is that even though workers will earn less, the prices they pay will also be less. What they don’t mention is that this is at the cost of erasing America as an exemplar for middle-class liberty, opportunity, and voice to demand representation. How again is this “freedom?”

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Everything border-erasing establishment-cronies do is driven by morally-depraved shallowness. They’re fanatically baptized in it, through and through. The only serfs they promote are happy dupes on a stick. Take the callow rationalization for allowing American car manufacturers to be cleansed by bankruptcy. What our cronies really meant was to allow the cleansing of legacy costs for accumulated pensions and health benefits. But think what that would mean: Except for token operations, the work would be shipped to cheap labor markets overseas. Think how Japanese makers would respond. The only reason they make cars in America is because they saw that not as many Americans otherwise would buy their products. But what happens to the patriotic impulse once so called American makers ship their own production to the cheapest shore for serf labor?
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Given the vast sway the Establishment exerts over our media, banking, indeed, our very currency, it will be difficult to awaken the middle class to otherwise simple points. I don’t know that Newt is the man to do this. I do apprehend that he might be the only one with the grit for it. Free enterprise, yes. Crony eating out of America, no.
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Possible border-defending solution: Smart tariff increases on im-ports, smart tax increases on funding out-goes; less taxing on internal business production, less taxing on funding in-comes. If this raises prices, it also preserves American industry and middle-class political influence. Without that, the notion of “representation” in Representative Republic becomes a sad joke. (BTW, if American corporations really want to eliminate legacy costs, as opposed to wanting to reduce American workers to serf laborers, then why not convert to a form of single-payer, safety-net, national health coverage, instead of putting that onus on American businesses in a way that makes them less competitive with foreign corporations?)
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Yes, decentralize non-national concerns. However, competitiveness with foreign, state-run corporatists necessitates some domestically centralizing response. Better to preserve the American middle class as a national holism than to reduce it to competition with serf-harnessed laborers under banana despots.
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If the American middle class is to stop allowing itself to be slapped silly between crony Dino socialists and crony Rino corporatists, it needs to get the old-hickory-grit to think anew. It needs to think grandiose. Centralize where we must, decentralize where we can, and restore middle class influence and decency. How many patents are filed or purchased by internationally operating corporations for the sole purpose of protecting entrenched businesses by not allowing new technologies to come to market? Talk about counter-productive, central-government regulation of rewards for digging and refilling old holes! How much of the "free market" "earns" its money by draining the real economy? Patent protection should end when a new discovery (hydrogen powered engines, ultrasonic washing machines, etc.) is not marketed within 5 years.
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Stop with the childish diversion-and-dividing-fixation on the utter non-priority of replacing Judeo-Christian values with wide-open Lib sex, drugs, and frenzy. Do Lib pushers have anyone's best interests at heart, or do they just want ways to recruit addicts in order to keep them under status-quo thumbs? If the middle class does not wake to real priorities, America will simply blow away, like a bubble floating on nothing but know-it-all blow of impatient, spoiled, easily misled children. Then, how much liberty will Libs have?
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Apart from greater access to trinkets and diversions, in terms of supporting a household, why is the buying power of a modern engineer hardly more, if at all, than that of a milkman in 1955? Apologists point out that America benefited much more from churnings of WWII than any other nation. Ok. But what about increased efficiencies in machines, robotics, and computing --- shouldn't such efficiency-enhancements offset, to keep the general standard of living high? Or are those benefits solely the "earned" domain of elite corporatists? Look around. Those efficiency-enhancements are translated by those with power to translate them to render most of the middle class quite expendable. Given the heady power and advantage of having access to cheap labor and means for conditioning the masses to think most insults to be palatable, why presume corporatists pursuing the bottom-line will or should seek full employment? I give you Obama-Soros, the perfect crony alliance of hyena-socialists and lion-capitalists. Can you imagine anything such alliance could not package as "progress?" Why believe such alliance would ever actually want serfs to come to an even playing field, as opposed to always being kept to need elites to look out for them?
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