wkmac
Well-Known Member
Clinton won't rein Wall Street in...
Neither will any candidate on the R side.
True but I'll go one step farther. NO CANDIDATE CAN REIN IN WALL STREET!
And candidate or political party who tries to do so, thanks to the gov't itself (along with its mega Corp. co-partners) in centralizing the economy among other things, Wall Street can tweak a few dials and the economy comes to a halt. And these corporations aren't concerned with slowdowns, unlike you and I they are first in line for bailouts. Then the offending politician or party is thrown out and when the new comes to power and plays ball, the valve is re-opened and a kind of perceived normalcy returns. We even accept the illusion that they are better with the economy than the other guys are.
And look at any political maverick that emerges to challenge the status quo, from Ron Paul and his free market ideals to a Dennis Kucinich or Ralph Nader and their more social democratic approach, the very same forces that crushed one also crushed the other. Is there something to be said there?
The last 30 years of the 20th century was the beginning of the conclusion of the destruction IMO of the small town or mainstreet economy that for better or worse made the middle class what it was. People not only made their living locally but they saved locally too. Much of those savings were re-invested in the local economy which made mainstreet stronger. The mega centralized powers, Corp and State had a harder time twisting those knobs then for their benefit and most politics as a result were local and decentralized as well. That all ended in the 70's and accelerated in the 80's and 90's and have never looked back since.
I think we've gone to far to go back now if one is out to avoid pain and it's nothing but a race to the bottom regardless which side of the isle prevails on any election day. On that day the pain is going to be really bad. REALLY BAD! When that is can not be determined but history is filled with examples and I see no effort at all to avoid the repeating of history.
The late Bill Hicks might have been closer to the truth of reality than any of us want to admit that it is.