There\u2019s this Bolshevik propaganda poster I saw many years ago that I\u2019d give my right nut to find again.\u00a0 It\u2019s a picture of a bunch of (literally) flower sniffing aristocrats on one side, looking in horror at what\u2019s in front of them: an assembly of state and religious officials, holding up a giant man-made flower with severed human heads as grains of pollen.\u00a0 It was titled \u201canti-Semitism\u201d.<\/p>\n
The meaning of the poster is a critique of those who live quite well of the functioning of the state that supports them, with the horrific realization of what needs to happen to maintain their carefree lifestyle.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what\u2019s happening with this \u201ccritique\u201d of our \u201cinefficient\u201d government playing brinksmanship with government shutdowns and default over Obamacare.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one of my pet peeves with bourgeois press magazines like the Economist, which can otherwise be quite informative and journalistic.\u00a0 It\u2019s this paternalistic tone that government never quite meets up with their expectations, as if the will of the bourgeoisie is to be followed by all of society with no mess or complications.<\/p>\n
Sorry, but an exploitation of the population by depriving it of basic necessities does not come across simply.\u00a0 It requires a lot of demagoguery, and a lot of mess, and a lot of rough running government.\u00a0 And considering bourgeois institutions have been clamoring for \u201centitlement reform\u201d (i.e. gutting benefits we pay into) for decades, this is a mess of their making.\u00a0 Meaning, institutions like The Economist are to blame.\u00a0 Not the politicians who make their careers off catering to these interests.<\/p>\n
If you’ll notice, Wall Street didn\u2019t sink that much.\u00a0 Meaning they were aware of where the government actually stood with their interests. \u00a0They and their institutions have\u00a0been clamoring to dismantle the social safety net for decades, so they see it as the standard price of doing business.<\/p>\n
This brinkmanship isn\u2019t just about Obamacare.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the government\u2019s overall role in providing for human welfare.\u00a0 And the repercussions about what happens with Obamacare reverberate to other programs like Medicare and Social Security.<\/p>\n
Ted Cruz and the Tea Party likes of him (Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, etc.) may come across sounding crazy, but there\u2019s a method behind their madness.\u00a0 They know the powerful interests, the mainstream<\/b> powerful interests, that give them the wink and the nudge to continue.\u00a0 And since they are the most militant at pursuing these interests, it\u2019s why they\u2019ll continue to have a forum for their platforms.\u00a0 And this will continue to be an issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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