ideological tool

IDEOLOGICAL TOOL

As recent events highlight, we are all prisoners of ideological binders.  Trump-Tards, after a lifetime of being lied to during FedGov political campaigns, somehow think This Time Will Be Different ( kind of sounds like the same sucker that bought Apple stock at 300 years earnings and a poorly constructed Black Mold Special [ at “only” five years of combined incomes cost ] way too far from work in the suburbs whence he had to drive a poorly made car he had to finance for eight years ).  Girl-Power Fans insist Hilary needs to be in charge even after demonstrating repeatedly that she was the one who gave Bush Junior lessons in being a neo-con, not Cheney or Rumsfeld.  Libertarians insist that any protection for the common workers is evil and communistic and must be stopped forthwith.  Now, I’m not exactly casting rocks about wantonly in a glass house here.  I was exactly the same way, a Libertarian Ditto-Head.  Do you think I enjoy looking back fondly at what a dumbass I was? 

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But I could have been a far bigger douchebag and remained fixed on that ideological viewpoint my entire life, refusing to listen to facts, locked into my worldview with no desire to change.  There are three teachers in life.  Schools, books and experience.  I was a real smart guy, prior to experiencing life ( thank goodness I put off writing until my late twenties.  That was superficial enough that I would hate to have listened to myself earlier ).  Now, after I was bitch slapped about a bit by reality, I can filter what I read through some common sense I gained in the School Of Hard Knocks.  And I can safely say that NO ideology passes the smell test.  It certainly all always reverts to being at least a little bit bullcrap.  Liberals ignore biology, conservatives ignore resource limits, Americans and most other nationalities confuse capitalism for an economic system when it is merely a religion.  Religious folks ignore logical thinking and atheists ignore anthropology as pertains to superstition ( themselves usually confusing science for anything other than another religion ). 

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So here is my point.  We have all been using ideology as a prism to look at the world, and in the meantime ideology has been used against us by the Elite.  They are waging a class war while we are blinding ourselves by fervently siding with our favorite belief system, which conveniently somehow always sided with our Masters.  The perfect example is the folks who vote Democrat because that is the party Against Big Business.  Now, I readily admit that the Democrats used to do a heck of a lot of good.  They were NOT the party that bled a nation to centralize the government and to kill states rights.  They did stand up for the common laborers trying to Unionize the workplace.  Of course then they screwed it up by being the party for pretty much any weirdo and wacko out there, but more importantly they turned their backs of the working man and instead embraced all of his enemies by going PC.  And they screwed the workers by joining with the Republicans in selling off our industrial economy and installing a banker economy.  Bankers might have been running the joint for the last hundred years, but the point of contention here is when BOTH political parties decided that the way forward was on the backs of all the poor, working or otherwise.

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And the poor have been too busy to complain.  They are busy hating each other.  Women workers hate men workers, old workers hate young workers, Whites hate Blacks, and on and on.  If I say to you, we need minimum wage to keep a floor on wage destruction and inflation, you start with the old Republicans Love Freedom script.  And that script sounds and feels good.  But it is all BS.  Republicans who are rich love the freedom from government to pay workers less, while increasing unsafe conditions, using foreign manufacturing as a threat against any dissent.  At the same time, the Democrat rich love “diversity and human dignity” because it allows a river of poor immigrants unfettered access to our economy who help drive down wages.  Between women in the workplace, immigrants legal or otherwise, Chinese competition and automation in all sectors, we have almost no jobs left.  And you want to pay them LESS?  Even that has an answer.  Oh, if we lower the minimum wage, there will be more jobs.

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Really?  Obammy lowered the 40 hour workweek to under 32 by penalizing full time workers with unaffordable “health care taxes”, and now, not only are there less jobs overall, they pay less due to fewer hours.  And we should lower that pay some more?  Oh, if they lower the minimum wage or better yet abolish it, owners won’t buy a robot to replace a worker.  Really?  Have you noticed any floor sweeping robots in businesses?  The classic Free Business line is that when minimum wage started, retarded school children were no longer economical to employ as floor sweepers.  Yet, no automation of floor sweeping has happened after the insanely high cost of minimum wage was started.  You know who sweeps the floors now?  The guy with another job title.  Every worker just does more now.  In fact, the fabled Productivity Increases is due in large part to having each worker simply assume more and more ( and more ) tasks, not to some ideological myth of the American Worker being so awesome. 

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The Republicans/Libertarians point at the minimum wage as being a communist plot, usually invoking the now very tired line of the rising tide lifting all boats, while the Democrats urge a higher wage even as they kill employment with immigration.  They are telling you one thing but doing another.  Neither ideology wins, nor do the workers.  The rich, and I’m sure you’ve noticed all Democrat politicians seem to be in that category, well, they seem to be the only ones making money as real wages stagnate or shrink.  But we are all on the side of the rich, willingly going along in the effort to screw the workers.  We are their water carriers, their Yes-Men, their obsequious mouth pieces.  Yes, Sir, may we have another?

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