HAVES AND HAVE NOTS 2019 DRAFT
What we are going to talk about today is a subject we have discussed before but requires further analysis as world history unfolds.
This subject is the reality of the haves and the have-nots both in America and around the world in order to understand this you need to take out of your mind all the garbage that you were taught in American schools and the delusions of American imperialism that the American dream is here for everybody and you can be whatever you want to be that lunatic American phrase that there is unprecedented opportunity apparently only in America or better than any other country now let’s just get a number thing straight here in terms of class mobility all studies show that America has one of the lowest levels of class mobility in the industrialized world so that’s sheer nonsense and let’s just analyze the totally lunatic statement you can be whatever you want to be in America okay so suppose you want to be a billionaire can be a millionaire really and suppose you want to be a multibillionaire you just become a billionaire all it takes is hard work a can-do attitude positive positive attitude towards American society
It’s important to see these ideas for the lunatic garbage that they are there very evil aspects to these ideas part of these ideas are peddled to keep domestic peace when the plutocrats built the world that they built in the 19 century and in fairness they were much nicer group of people than the modern plutocrats the modern Wall Street plutocrats or the modern high-tech plutocrats because at least the plutocrats of the 19th century built an industrial machine for the American people the modern plutocrats of have spent a good part of their time selling out the America the American people and destroying America’s industry to set up plants overseas however America had among the worst levels of industrial violence of any modern state so in order to in order to keep the peace also to unhappy books were published about you know the American dream and so on and so for this is something that was fueled very much the start and also was plugged into American nationalism by both the right and the left the liberal international such as the loathsome and fraudulent Woodrow Wilson like to put this in as a logical justification for America invading conquering murdering torturing anybody you got in their way and so on and so forth so this is there was a bipartisan approach to that and we think it’s extremely interesting that the leading author who promoted this idea Horatio Alger in the 19th century was later exposed as a homosexual child molesters I think that’s kind of interesting that sort of sums up a good part of the American dream and there’s a whole series of other aspects of people who peddled the sin of hucksterism but it’s important to see that this is is lunatic trash and not real
now let’s focus today on what’s real in America what’s real in America is you have to look at constant dollar wages is the only way to analyze this and we won’t get into a detailed discussion of economic statistics pony statistics BS real statistics that’s for another lecture but let’s focus on the real statistic which is average wages rate for the middle class average wages peaked in about 19 6364 so for those people the American dream came to an end at that point in time okay the excuse me at we need to say they we are back to where they were in 1963 to 64 they Pete in 1973 and for lower classes like the minimum wage were back to where we were in the late 1950s so that’s the reality that’s the reality now it’s a lot worse than that though because the current structure of American life and to a certain extent global life is based on first huge debts against the environment unprecedented that’s against the environment in other words the current so-called prosperity is based on unprecedented destruction of the environment it’s taking out a debt against the future in America particularly starting under Reagan you began this enormous expansion of debt which has been a means of balancing things that don’t balance by borrowing from the future this is not going to end well now when we had a series of intermediate crises in terms of this debt the biggest one being the 2008 financial train wreck and unfortunately since then that was largely solved by running up whole new levels of debt both in America and around the world that is obviously not a good situation either so we come back to the element of the haves and the have-nots and the average person’s life now people are told that and this goes back to ready as you are about to discuss which is religion people are told that there’s something here for them that their life here means something and it’s all going to be good for them
the problem is that when the bubble bursts this creates a conflict between the haves and have-nots at home and the haves and have-nots on an international basis
if you look at the Democratic Party today it’s a great series of promises healthcare green new deal billions trillions for infrastructure and so on and a lot of these are all very worthy goals is a deafening silence … you can hear a pin drop … you can hear crickets of how exactly this is going to be paid for other than vague ideas about taxing the rich and we favor increases in taxes on the rich that’s not gonna come up in a thousand miles of paying for these things
Meanwhile the Democrats have joined the Republicans in supporting a one-way campaign of imperialism and militarism and that could dangerously escalate the already astronomical levels of military spending so the previous of Democratic consensus of cutting military spending does not exist today and today America spending in constant dollars more on the military than ever before in history and outspending the next seven nations combined so it’s obvious that this is not for defense this is for imperialism so getting back to the haves and the have-nots people are going to be pitted against each other you see so somebody who wants student debt relief is going to be pitted against somebody who wants infrastructure spending etc. etc. etc. which will lead to social turmoil
at the same time on an international level countries are going to fight among themselves for the scraps for economic advantage of particular relevance is the US economic relationship with China which is the most important economic relationship in the world between the two worlds largest economic powers in terms of purchasing power parity the Chinese economy is already larger than the American economy however in the case of China both countries have big problems the big story here is that the fairytales of Clinton were just that fairytales the whole idea that Indian-American industry would be sent to China which was a crazy idea from day one and then also it’s a fairytale industries here would sprout up out of the view out of the blue and high-tech and provide Joshua they got destroying US industry and shipping it to China they got that part did a terrific job on that unfortunately the rest of this was largely crap so you have a huge long-term structural deficits in the American Chinese relationship and while Trump deserves credit for at least recognizing the problem in trying to deal with it rather than denying it on his approach is very clumsy and very dangerous one way or another this is going to cause problems for both America and China for example if the American economy tanks which it very likely will that will have a big effect on millions of workers in China who will note no longer have American consumers to sell to and so on so this is going to be a very tumultuous relationship
in conclusion we need to look at the issue of psychology of people’s hope about their own lives of people waking up in the morning and feeling their own lives have value we also have to deal with issues of public health relating to poisoning the influence of chemicals unsafe working conditions and we say unsafe working conditions were not talking about just a factory or something like that probably the most unsafe working conditions in America are that great innovation of the postwar era the sealed glass box as a place for people to work known as modern office buildings known the old office buildings you could open up the windows and actually stick your head out and get a breath of something that might not be fresh but will he something fresh air modern office buildings are all hermetically sealed and they do get outside air but it all comes to an internal ventilating system and so on so that by its nature is very unhealthy you don’t have to be a genius on top of that America unlike many other states has no indoor air health regulations so that’s an issue right there
and people feeling that their life matters their life has meaning now when you think this thing through were going back in time to realities of the past and realities the future realities the pastor struggles between the haves and have-nots
that’s why war has been an integral part of history and by the way genocide is been an integral part of history the issue of genocide is not adequately understood because the good old-fashioned role of genocide was to force people off their crops force people off there there take away their livestock list is explain that a little more clearly in the preindustrial world the key time was the harvest okay the key time was the harvest people had to wait until their crops were harvested to get their food now say try a is attracted attacked by tribe be before they can harvest their crops and either their crops or burn before they are forced off their land tribe that got driven off it’s land is probably going to starve to death or right so there is de facto genocide right there and that also relates to a gross undercounting of the genocide against Native Americans by the white imperialist because the tribes that were driven off their lands yes a lot of them died of disease but one of the reasons the disease was so horrendous was the starvation as they got separated from their livestock and and there and there there food stocks and the that that is a reality
so people psychologically are going or if this is already happening under Trump are beginning to have questions about the meaning of their lives and so this paves the way for religion and religious cults or para-religious cults know what we’re talking about in terms of religious cults is when you think of some people in cults of Charles Manson or something like that and in those and he recalls that were thinking much more of somebody taking a traditional religion Christianity Islam and reinventing it for political purposes and when we see this all around with the the radical Islam and radical Christianity in radical Hinduism and radical Buddhism around of this is already happening and this will continue to grow so that’s a win-win for people where they can find greater meaning in their life at the same time they can see a political resolution of apparent political resolution of the problems that afflict their daily life
so as the situation deteriorates the coming totalitarian leaders are not going to be as stupid as the Communists were to have an atheist point of view is a huge measured minus the new totalitarian leaders are going to have a religious point of view there also not to be dumb enough as to having a dumbbell economic system like the Soviet Union you see a portent of the coming totalitarian world orders in China with the exception of the religious aspect that’s the great Achilles’ heel of China and that will how that gets resolved is not clear when the American economy gets into a great crisis that will also spell over into China and how the Chinese government handles that is going to be very interesting we predict they will handle it a with greater repression be with greater nationalism and anti-Americanism so these are the factors you need to keep in mind do understand that this is about the haves and the have-nots as people struggle against each other in a world where debts come due and can’t be paid a world where people are being poisoned by environmental poisons and a world where the overall environment is becoming increasingly unstable
As we’ve said before history remains the same and this will have the same result as it had in every error of history of get all the red white and blue garbage out of your head
History remains the same America is a prisoner of historical events just like every other nation in fact America’s release of the case study of what not to do list as it gets more and more revealed of its of its massive internal problems so what will be coming is the what the figure of the emperors the new Caesar’s the totalitarian order will be welcomed as saviors by the people to come
but this will be a sorting out of the haves and the have-nots in terms of the green revolution in terms of the unstable nature of industrial agriculture the haves and the have-nots are going to be a game of death so a lot of people are going to not make that’s how this thing is going to be sorted out and very interesting research is come up recently about the genocide against the Native Americans leading to a certain amount of global cooling and the mass murder of the people of China by Genghis Khan’s armies also leading to a certain amount of global cooling so on
the various political plans hatched by the Western elites are going to be completely inadequate to stop global warming but the carnage to come actually could put a dent in it so you will see I guess you could call it something bright up ahead in in terms of of that but again you need to think in terms of the haves and the have-nots and how this is sorted out in so far as there’s any hope for a peaceful resolution we need to have Frank talk about the haves and the have-nots not fairytale talk about how everybody’s going to have a wonderful time that’s where we need to go that’s what were going to try to encourage by educating people about the dimensions of the crisis but like that young lady in Sweden the 15-year-old girl who protested global warming were not optimistic we have very little hope in the current Western elites that we see these people as evil and morally bankrupt and cowardly so the more likely scenario is the return to an eternal timescale as Caesar’s come to power and there’s a blood he sorting out of the haves and the have-nots out of that will come a new water it could be a total apocalypse but out of that will out of the ashes of the current situation will, new order as the world returns to nature’s laws this is the end of this lecture