Comments on: DAVID HARVEY ON THE CURRENT CRISIS AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF CLASS POWER http://dublinopinion.com/2009/03/08/david-harvey-on-the-current-crisis-and-the-consolidation-of-class-power/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Wed, 23 May 2012 11:45:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Obbop http://dublinopinion.com/2009/03/08/david-harvey-on-the-current-crisis-and-the-consolidation-of-class-power/#comment-69727 Obbop Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:11:06 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/03/08/david-harvey-on-the-current-crisis-and-the-consolidation-of-class-power/#comment-69727 Class warfare is alive within the USA but due to what I believe is one of the most effective propaganda systems in the world, the average USA citizen has been indoctrinated/brainwashed into believing that the way "things" are within the USA is correct, proper and as it should be. To think otherwise is to be un-American, non-patriotic and leaves one open to denunciation by one's peers. The USA educational systems from Kindergarten to 12th grade (typically ages 5 to 18 or so) both public and private (public schools in the USA are the taxpayer-paid-for schools) are a primary indoctrination tool. Also, the USA mass media is mainly a for-profit affair owned by the wealthy elite class who mainly do not upset the status quo that serves our elite class here so well. We are lucky in carrying the general culture created in western Europe. Mainly, the masses of commoners are ruled by a benevolent elite class who coerce via peaceful means rather than raw brutality as seen with Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and other evil cruel dictators. Yes, the USA's elites HAVE used the barrel of the gun to maintain the status quo as a search of our history reveals. Generally, however, on the whole, the ruling elite class of the USA and their minions and lackeys (and there are many in their pay) tend to be gentle tyrants but tyrants they are and..... I fear that if the masses of commoners rose up in revolt that the ruling elites might be willing to murder millions to maintain their positions of wealth and power. Sadly, with the USA's vast resources, the elite's military and law enforcement bureaucracies from the smallest local level to the nation-wide FBI and the massive military would easily be able to muster the resources to quell a revolt even if 50 million armed citizens marched against the elite class. Trained disciplines troops have proven a multitude of times their ability to defeat opponents that vastly outnumber them. Add in pre-existing infrastructures, communications, supplies and vastly superior armaments and I believe that only a military coup led by patriotic freedom-loving military officers could oust our elite class and initiate meaningful changes in the USA's political, economic and social structures. The odds of that happening are extremely slight though I DO believe a growing percentage of USA citizens are fed up with our current elite class and would welcome some major changes... and the current president Obama is not the initiator of that change. He is merely yet another figurehead for the elite class, corporate America and wealthy/powerful special interest groups. If curious what an American commoner thinks about affairs within the USA, a member of the USA working-poor underclass who via much education, extensive non-fiction reading and introspection was able to shed a fair amount of the brainwashing/indoctrination that has stifled the thought processes of so many Americans I invite you to visit this blog: obbop.wordpress.com/ Class warfare is alive within the USA but due to what I believe is one of the most effective propaganda systems in the world, the average USA citizen has been indoctrinated/brainwashed into believing that the way “things” are within the USA is correct, proper and as it should be.

To think otherwise is to be un-American, non-patriotic and leaves one open to denunciation by one’s peers.

The USA educational systems from Kindergarten to 12th grade (typically ages 5 to 18 or so) both public and private (public schools in the USA are the taxpayer-paid-for schools) are a primary indoctrination tool.

Also, the USA mass media is mainly a for-profit affair owned by the wealthy elite class who mainly do not upset the status quo that serves our elite class here so well.

We are lucky in carrying the general culture created in western Europe. Mainly, the masses of commoners are ruled by a benevolent elite class who coerce via peaceful means rather than raw brutality as seen with Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and other evil cruel dictators.

Yes, the USA’s elites HAVE used the barrel of the gun to maintain the status quo as a search of our history reveals.

Generally, however, on the whole, the ruling elite class of the USA and their minions and lackeys (and there are many in their pay) tend to be gentle tyrants but tyrants they are and…..

I fear that if the masses of commoners rose up in revolt that the ruling elites might be willing to murder millions to maintain their positions of wealth and power.

Sadly, with the USA’s vast resources, the elite’s military and law enforcement bureaucracies from the smallest local level to the nation-wide FBI and the massive military would easily be able to muster the resources to quell a revolt even if 50 million armed citizens marched against the elite class.

Trained disciplines troops have proven a multitude of times their ability to defeat opponents that vastly outnumber them. Add in pre-existing infrastructures, communications, supplies and vastly superior armaments and I believe that only a military coup led by patriotic freedom-loving military officers could oust our elite class and initiate meaningful changes in the USA’s political, economic and social structures.

The odds of that happening are extremely slight though I DO believe a growing percentage of USA citizens are fed up with our current elite class and would welcome some major changes… and the current president Obama is not the initiator of that change. He is merely yet another figurehead for the elite class, corporate America and wealthy/powerful special interest groups.

If curious what an American commoner thinks about affairs within the USA, a member of the USA working-poor underclass who via much education, extensive non-fiction reading and introspection was able to shed a fair amount of the brainwashing/indoctrination that has stifled the thought processes of so many Americans I invite you to visit this blog:

obbop.wordpress.com/

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