"The final stages of capitalism, Karl Marx predicted, would be marked by global capital being unable to expand and generate profits at former levels. Capitalists would begin to consume the government along with the physical and social structures that sustained them. Democracy, social welfare, electoral participation, the common good and investment in public transportation, roads, bridges, utilities, industry, education, ecosystem protection and health care would be sacrificed to feed the mania for short-term profit.
These assaults would destroy the host. This is the stage of late capitalism that Donald Trump represents.
Trump plans to oversee the last great campaign of corporate pillaging of America. It will be as crass and brazen as the fleecing of the desperate people, hoping for a miracle in the face of dead-end jobs and ruinous personal debt, who visited his casinos or shelled out thousands of dollars for the sham of Trump University. He will attempt to unleash a kleptocracy—the word comes from the Greek
klépto, meaning thieves, and
kratos, meaning rule, so it is literally “rule by thieves”—one that will rival the kleptocracies carried out by Suharto in Indonesia and Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. It is not that Trump and his family will use the influence of government to increase their wealth, although this will certainly take place on a massive scale; it is that hundreds of billions of federal dollars will be diverted into the hands of cronies, sleazy bankers, unethical financial firms and scabrous hedge fund managers."
Defying Donald Trump’s Kleptocracy: Chris Hedges
chris goes into detail the programs which are under attack including education, medicare, social security.
for some reason recently ive lost quite a bit of interest in politics, maybe i cant remember how i felt before the election began. these are very interesting times, i really believe trump is going to be heavy handed and you will have a police state. people thought it might happen under obama but ill be a bit suprised if it doesnt go down under trump.
im probably gonna lose it if they deport snowden to america, hes a living example of jesus and all the great prophets.
