President Trump on Sunday morning raged against Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to strike the country’s infrastructure and urging Tehran to “open the F‑‑‑in’ Strait, you crazy bastards.…
Just when you thought the bar couldn’t possibly be lower…
In one word: neoliberalism. It inevitably and inexorably leads to this.
Decades of defunding education, maximizing corporate profit at the expense of the workers at the bottom, making life worse and worse for commoners.
You end up with a large group of poorly educated, humiliated angry voters. And they’ll get fooled easy by the most populist guy who “say it like it is” and offe simplistic solutions and scapegoats.
That’s why it’s happening. And US is not a single case. They just have a much higher power of nuisance.
Why. Whyyy. Why is this man at the wheel??
I mean I know why, it’s because no one told gramps he’s too senile to drive, but why are we sitting in the back seat??
In one word: neoliberalism. It inevitably and inexorably leads to this.
Decades of defunding education, maximizing corporate profit at the expense of the workers at the bottom, making life worse and worse for commoners.
You end up with a large group of poorly educated, humiliated angry voters. And they’ll get fooled easy by the most populist guy who “say it like it is” and offe simplistic solutions and scapegoats.
That’s why it’s happening. And US is not a single case. They just have a much higher power of nuisance.