Out of all my posts on this blog, these four are the most
connected to the long term political future of the Country.
Peering through the fog
of brainwashing.
The fog machine is working and is very effective.
People are debating what health care plan is god, bad, or
ugly.
No one seems to get to the roots.
And the roots are very simple.
1. The globalization had resulted in that many white
Americans lost their highly paid jobs - and NO one (neither Republicans nor
Democrats) know what to do about it, so they do nothing, but blaming each
other.
2. For the last decades (at least) the American demographic
has been drastically changing in such a way that non-white Americans soon
should become the majority (http://www.epi.org/publication/the-changing-demographics-of-americas-working-class/).
Everything so-called “conservatives” do is to prevent the
white soon-to-be-minority from losing the political power.
Gerrymandering, voter suppression, unreasonably strict
anti-drugs laws was just the beginning.
Conservatives have been quietly building up a brainwashing
media machine.
If you think FOX News, or Breitbart – you are wrong. Those
guys are not quiet.
Think Sinclair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group);
check the latest John Oliver’s piece on it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc).
BTW: what do Democrats do about it? Nothing. They do not
have any vision. Thy just happy that more people get upset with Trump and
express their anger. But what do Democrats do now what we could called NEW and
SIGNIFICANT? Nothing. They just keep doing the same thing again and again and
waiting for new result to happen, but just with more energy (lots of posts on
the matter at http://the3dforce.blogspot.com/; for example http://the3dforce.blogspot.com/2017/04/why.html;
or http://the3dforce.blogspot.com/2017/03/warren.html).
GOP’s healthcare plan is new tool to keep the status quo. It
is designed to hit the poorest. Anyone who says: “but it also hits Trump’s
base” does not see far enough. It may seem like the plan hits the Trump’s base,
but when it comes to its realization, some adjustments will be done, but not
for everyone.
In his recent interview to NPR Dr. Rod Hochman said: “America as a country is older and
poorer.” (http://www.npr.org/2017/06/28/534681846/hospital-official-waits-to-see-when-senate-votes-on-gop-health-bill).
The GOP’s plan is to deal
with this problem to let people who cannot afford health (minorities) insurance
to die out.
Politics is never about
anything but POWER (for good or for bad).
What we see is the process of
building the political machine which would keep minorities out of power even
when they will become the majority.
And EVERYTHING what
"conservatives" do, they do it because of one single motive (so, just
ignore anything else they say).
They do it because of fear.
They do it because of fear
of losing political power - to the current
minorities.
That fear navigates all their
action (often on a subconscious level:
"Behave: The Biology of
Humans at Our Best and Worst" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IAUGC5S/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o01_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- a strong book on human
behavior).
Unfortunately, that fear
resonates with many, and ignored by even more.
Why can't the Democrats to
use this knowledge for advancing their agenda, is a different conversation (e.g.
http://the3dforce.blogspot.com/2017/07/12steps.html)
Appendix:
A couple of weeks after this
post was published, the Republicans came up with the new version of the health
care bill. In that bill they proposed to treat differently rural folks and
urban folks. This is exactly the type of adjustment I originally mentioned!
When they say "rural" they mean "white Americans".
"Urban" means either rich people who will not be affected by any version
of the bill; and poor minorities who will be kicked out of the health care if
the bill will be accepted.
There are however two
commonalities in how Republicans treat all the poor, white and non-white.
1. The Republicans do not
want people to think.
And the best way to keep
people from thinking is to make them work so hard, they have no energy left for
anything else. When one has to work 60 hours a week, juggling two jobs to only
make it a paycheck to a paycheck, one has no ability to think about social and
economical issues. One just comes home, drinks some bear, and falls into a bed.
2. The Republicans do not
want people to know.
That is why they fight
anything which may help improving public schools, especially in urban areas.
