They’re screaming the quiet part out loud, and I for one am glad the idiot MAGAs are still awake enough to realize it.
I’ve been saying for a while now that it’s super clear that the people who run the world (and especially the USA) don’t want to bring up the worldwide standard of living to match the US middle class. No, they want the opposite, they want to drag the US middle class down to the standard of living of the rest of the world. They literally think we demand too much and they’ve been coddled by being able to exploit the living shit out of workers from countries with even worse work-life-balance than we have. Offshoring has been going on since I was a kid, they’ve literally been doing it so long they’re not interested in keeping US workers happy, they’re done with us. Why invest in US workers when you can invest in (Insert Country) workers for less than a tenth of the cost and basically have slaves that can’t say no?
The wealthy like Musk don’t care about borders or nationality, he can hop on a plane and enter another country without ever flashing a passport because he owns private airstrips in many countries where he can touchdown on his own property. They will happily strip-mine the USA and then move to the next economy to strip-mine, like China. The wealthy will just move to wherever is most convenient and exploit workers wherever is most convenient, with whatever excuse makes the most sense at the time.
However, Musk is unintentionally correct about one thing: We worship mediocrity in this country. Musk and Trump are perfect examples. As with everything conservative, it’s projection all the way down.
Just what did these dumbfucks THINK the billionaire broligarchs were going to do?
As much as I’m glad that they’re waking up to it… It’s frustrating that we’ve basically been frantically flailing our arms and screaming “please listen to us those people want to hurt you and our country” for decades but they felt talked down to by us so they refused to listen and instead are learning the hard way and forcing us to live what we already knew would happen.
The elitists put into place a huge propaganda network to convince the 99% that anyone that knows anything, has an education, has expertise of certain kinds (excluding blue collar work, though that’s expertise, too) is “elitist”, talking down to them, and therefore not to be trusted when speaking…meanwhile the actual elitists plot to drag the quality of life of average Americans down, not up.
They are cheering on the likes of donvict and Elmo and buying into the notion that they are in any way “populist”.
This is what you wanted
To be fair, I think it’s rather the average MAGA doesn’t actually know what they want.
All they know is they want good jobs with good pay and good work life balance without needing a degree, just like grandpappy.
They don’t know labor history due to their lack of education, and their hatred of the educated makes it difficult for them to want to learn, because they’re distrustful.
I don’t think they materially want things much different than we do, but their lack of education makes them easily propagandized. They want simple answer and simple solutions, because the complex ones make them feel like they’re being talked down to, because they don’t understand a word of it. So they reject it all for easy to understand racist tropes (the racist tropes make them feel powerful, the opposite of being talked down to).
OK but Trump’s tariffs need to apply to imported labour, not just imported items.
Sounds logical to me. If there’s tariffs on imported goods, why is imported labor exempted? That will definitely accelerate the in fighting
