The founding fathers never intended that general public would participate in presidential elections. Done. No more elections.
Going from decline to fall. To be fair it took Rome 200 years or so I'm sure the US will limp on for a while yet. But it won't ever be what it was again.
Fair call. I only just got the community update so I hadn't seen it.
You know it didn't use to be this way? There was a time when you could be 'A GE man'. You could work at a company for your whole life. You would not get laid off and rehired whenever it was convenient for the company, rather they'd show you some loyalty and you'd show them the same, this would be backed by employee profit sharing schemes, incentivising higher performance.
The heart of this deal between workers and management was ripped out when management chased higher share valuations, with stock bonuses for themselves instead of workers. It became cheaper to fire 1/80th of the workforce because you could break up unions that way, management could write off all those salaries to bump up the quarterly earnings, increasing the stock price and earning themselves bonuses at the expense of workers who as you said, just learn to get by.
"Fraggles don't have any bosses [...] We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other." - Wembley Fraggle, Fraggle Rock
Mmmhmm I know some of those words. Chan boards always make me feel like such a Normie.
Of course. It's a Murdoch newspaper they're the shittiest of shit tier capitalists.
National boundaries just divide workers to obscure the fact that they have more in common with each other than with the ruling classes.
The most obvious sign of a deeply embedded dogma is to think that picking the status quo is not an ideological act.
We call this "cutting tall poppies" in Australia.
I've always appreciated this story as an explanation for anyone who finds the concept foreign.
https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/editors_pick/1969_12_pick.html