How far will the billionaire class, both DEM and GOP, go in their backing of POTUS Donnie – PB/TK
Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain
Where will the Trump neofascists and his administration’s fellow travelers move next? At some point in the near future, the billionaire class is going to call for its lesser players’ cards to be laid on the table. Billionaires can and will tolerate all manner of mayhem to a point… all kinds of governmental and human rights abuses before putting an end to the lunacy in the White House and Congress. Not understanding the lengths the ruling class will go to in the name of profit and greed is something that the antiwar movement got wrong during the Vietnam War and beyond. Perhaps there are very old lessons to be re-learned aren’t there?
With almost unlimited funds and a vibrant arms industry, the billionaire class took all of the time that it needed to decide to end the Vietnam debacle between 1973 and 1975. They couldn’t have cared less about the massive bloodletting of that historical epoch. Being mostly young and unsophisticated, those in the antiwar movement didn’t comprehend all of these issues at the time. Some even thought that the working class in the U.S. would rise up en masse and support largely white college-educated liberals in the antiwar movement. No such powerful movement against war and government mayhem has arisen since.
Now, while the circus is in town in Washington, D.C., there is a pressing need to step back and try to determine where this insanity will lead. The far-right of the Republican Party, with some collusion among their friends in the Democratic Party, will not allow for these opportunities in slavish service to their paymasters to go without some payoff. Where will that be? War is a “great” way to change the focus of the masses and simultaneously make some serious pocket change.
Continue to counterpunch.org article: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/19/pay-no-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-curtain/
