How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted

[jdhoch]

The party is really oriented towards the concerns of the rich. It’s about cutting their taxes, reducing regulation on business, making things wide open for Wall Street. Now you’re not going to get anybody to the polls and consciously pull the lever for the Republicans if they say, “Our agenda is to further entrench the rich and, oh by the way, your pension may take a hit.”
So they use the culture wars quite cynically, as essentially rube bait to get people to the polls. And that explains why, for instance, the Koch brothers were early funders of Michele Bachmann, who is a darling of the religious right. They don’t care particularly, I would assume, about her religious foibles. What they care about is the bottom line. And these religious right candidates, many of them believing in the health and wealth, name it and claim it prosperity gospel, believe that the rich are sanctified and the poor punished


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[RebelDog]

Clearly an agenda that is based around the welfare of the richest elite cannot be sold to voters. It would never work. They appeal to religion, nationalism etc to gain votes and never truthfully outiline what they intend to do. Its a game. All the mainstream parties do it. Its the same here in Europe. If polititians told people the truth they'd linch them. The rich get their way in countries without parliamentary democracy and in countries with parliamentary democracy. Concentrated sectors of wealth will use their power to shape policy whatever the scenario.

[Lucretia]

The what class? Middle class? Tell me more about this supposed "middle class"? What is their location in the relations of production?

[GPDP]

My dad often does nothing but watch the news channels whenever he's up late at night. I swear, if I hear the words "middle class" one more time...

[Ostrinski]

Man, all this jdoch asshole does is post shit from CPUSA. In general, this practice is quite frowned upon on this site. But it's also fucking CPUSA.

[Yuppie Grinder]

lol @ self-described communists who harbor sentimental feelings towards the fabled concept of "middle class"

[Catma]

I think the issue is one of making effective propaganda for use in the US. Nobody is gonna listen to you if you talk about how there's no such thing as the middle class, and it's the easiest way to get sympathy.

Problem is when people start to believe their own propaganda...

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Sure, there's no such thing in Marxism as "the middle class" - in such a framework they would be termed the better-off proletariat and/or the petit-bourgeoisie - but their existence is often used by capitalist ideologues as a stick with which to beat Marxism, which is probably why there is so much fuss over fact that, as an economic category, the middle class is shrinking.

[Ostrinski]

Jdoch, you shithead. At least add some additional commentary to the garbage you post, to make yourself seem a little less spineless.

[fug]

Wait, doesn't the petty-bourgeoisie encompass much of the "middle class"?
If that's true then Marxists often use the term.

[Marxaveli]

I was watching the Democratic Convention last night, and I wanted to pull my hair out. Every single thing they complained about economically and socially was a byproduct of Capitalism, yet they want to uphold this economic system while getting rid of these problems. So frustrating to watch. There is no such thing as "the middle class". Women's rights and justice will never be fully realized under Capitalism. And what was more irritating, was that the whole thing reeeeeeaked of Nationalism. Yuck. America this, America that. Hellllllo, what about the rest of the world? We are not the center of the world (except when it comes to being the most racist, imperialist, and Capitalist nation), just like the world isn't the center of the universe.

To give them a tiny bit of credit, Clinton's speech, if you look at it in the context of the two-party system and not as a Communist, was pretty damn good.