From the link, summing up my text below:
Wealthy politicians & working class ppl don’t mix, I don’t care what you’ve been taught in ur life! Wealthy ppl have their own specific interests & agendas which really doesn’t include helping the working poor!
Not just the working poor I might add.
Low income, working class, lower middle class and middle class – none of these classes ever benefit for the rule of the rich. The rich are always hostile to all of these classes, and oligarchic rule always results in the slow impoverishment and eventual devastation of all of these classes.
So the governor’s race in very liberal Illinois is down to a billionaire investor, an heir to a hotel empire (sound familiar?) on the “Democratic” side versus a hedge fund mogul ( figures) on the “Republican” side. I’ve been saying forever on here that we have two parties of the rich, a liberal party of the rich (the Democrats) and a conservative party of the rich (the Republicans). I suppose if you are rich and either liberal or conservative, these distinctions without a difference might even matter, but for the rest of us, it’s game over before the first pitch.
How many times do I have to keep telling people? The rich are not your friends. Not not not not not never ever ever your friends, not in a million years your friends, not in any possible universe your friends. If you are anywhere from poor to low income to any middle class less than the upper one, you’re always screwed voting for a rich man.
This is where it is instructive to read Marx. One thing we never learn in a capitalist country, because no one bothers to teach us for fear that a bit of knowledge is dangerous, is that people pursue something called “class interests.” The poor are supposed to pursue the class interests of the poor, the lower middle class, the middle class and the upper middle class all pursue their class interests. And of course, the rich and the ruling class never fail to pursue their class interests because they are smart, well educated and know the score. The eternal scam of capitalist politics is a game where the rich are always trying to get everyone else to vote for the class interests of the rich.
One thing that Americans can’t seem to get through their thick heads is that these class interests are typically antagonistic to each other. I’ve been explaining this to otherwise intelligent Americans (mostly middle class Whites) for decades and it never seems to sink in. Middle and working class White Americans operate under the perpetural delusion that the class interests of the rich are the same as their own class interests. What’s good for the rich is good for working and middle class Whites. The roots of these form of political Down’s Syndrome can be traced to an idiotic culture, boosterism, a casino mindset, grossly exaggerated expectations, can-do thinking, and general worship of rich men that working and middle class Whites have been engaging in for a very long time now.
I got some news for you.
The class interests of the rich are generally directly antithetical to the class interests of the middle and lower middle classes, the low income, and the poor. What’s good for the rich is bad for all of these folks. Every time the rich win, all of these folks lose. That’s why these classes should not care anything about the stupid stock market. I call the stock market The Index of Evil. The stock market responds to whatever is good for the rich. Whatever is bad for the rich, which is almost always good for the rest of these classes is bad for the stock market. In other words, if these other classes start to succeed in their class interests, the stock market will go down. And every time these classes get screwed, the stock market goes up just a bit more. So quit cheering on the stupid stock market!
As noted above, it works the other way. Typically, everything that is good for these other classes is bad for the rich. Money doesn’t grow on trees. For the other classes to prosper, they generally have to take money from other classes, often the rich. In capitalism, class war is perpetual. What this boils down to is that most of the classes are trying to take money for at least some of the other classes in order to enrich themselves.
The behavior of the rich in most capitalist societies is to progressively take more and more money from these other classes and put it in the pockets of the rich. And if you study rich people long enough, one thing you will realize is that the rich never have enough money. I am serious. Your average billionaire is a hungry man, slavering for every nickel he can scrape up. I suppose it is like a drug where the more you do, the more you want and crave.
For 40 years now, US politics has been all about taking money from these other classes and giving it to the rich and the upper middle class. Now if you are rich or upper middle class, this was a damn good deal. But if you are in those other classes, it’s been slow motion hell on wheels, a doomed road trip to progressive immiseration.
What I am saying here is that the outcome of this race is already foreseen. We might as well not even bother. Who cares which rich man wins? The “liberal” rich man or the “conservative” rich man, what difference does it make. Each one is guaranteed to pursue his class interests as a gazillionaire, which will always be bad for most of the rest of us.
The outcome of the election can be foretold with little effort:
Rich 1, People 0.
