Time Is On Their Side

Jim Van Der Pol, in a recent column laid out the situation rather starkly, completely, and correctly. The Right Wing, in the employ of the financial, corporate, and military elite are on track to kill any hope of democracy breaking out in this country, or anywhere else in the world for that matter. He makes the point, clear enough already to all who care to look, that jobs, not just good jobs but most jobs, are leaving this country and are not coming back. The unemployment rate will remain high until population growth declines and the baby-boomers at long last pass away. As he says, there are bigger markets and faster growing affluence in China and India; that's where the money has been going since the 1980's when Reagan, claiming 'government is the problem', started the mass transfer of wealth upward and the privileged elite trickled down on the rest of us.

The only thing the Right Wing believes government should do of course, is wage war. Social spending, so-called 'entitlements' are a drain on the transfer of wealth from working people (who don't deserve it) to the elites and must be stopped. There is no concern however about spending on the military contractors.

There's a good reason for this of course. Currently there is no other military in the world that can be trusted to do the bidding of the ruling class unquestioningly and with such brutality. But of course that could all change in a instant. China, the only other nation in the world capable of challenging the enormous spending on war of the United States could become that force. Of course, they would have to be conditioned to support the aims of the ruling class first and that hasn't happened. Yet.

Once the United States is no longer needed to wage immoral wars to steal other nations' natural resources and enrich the ruling class, there will be no need for a United States at all.