In a divided nation that appears to be in a television and internet coma, America has failed as a nation and as a society because there is no plan for success, no pathway to the future. At least for 98% of the country anyways. Everything is explained here, in language most Americans can understand.
The most important thing in the United States is money. Everything, and I mean everything, has a price. Freedom, human rights, equality, etc., it’s all bullshit. The answer to any question in America is “money”. People don’t risk their lives to immigrate for freedom, they’re after the money on the gold plated streets of America.
For this nation where money is above all else, the economic system is called capitalism. On the most basic level, it is a system of supply and demand. One person has a supply of something and the demand for that something determines fair market price. The capitalist economic system is designed to make a small percentage of the population very rich with the majority of the population a source of low cost labor and living from month to month. Capitalism is dependent on a large pool of low cost labor and/or machinery.
In 1776, when the slaveholder writers of the United States Constitution declared all men free, they didn’t have flush toilets, but there was money to be made. You got all the land you wanted at no cost. Just take it away from the native people. You might have to kill a few, the rest will die from disease. Enslaved black people provided a nearly free source of labor. Virtually no overhead and zero labor cost. Nearly all profit. Capitalism was off and running.
For the next century, America would grow exponentially, thanks to the growing strength of the taxpayer funded American military. Free land for the taking, hard to imagine these days. There was plenty to go around. The pioneers headed west. Free land, rich with natural resources, and cheap or no cost labor would propel America into the Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution would turn America from many widespread small cities and towns into large cities so the population could work in factories and manufacturing facilities. With no more free slave labor, small American farms were not financially successful. People moved to the city to find work, large companies bought their land for pennies on the dollar.
Small businesses became large businesses. In the cities, the low cost labor pool was back. Along with the money in the cities came organized crime and corruption. By the end of the Twentieth Century, much of America’s manufacturing was sent overseas. Several wars to “protect the economy” destroyed other countries and destabilized entire regions. When the government says they are “trying to save the economy”, they mean that they are protecting the business interests of two percent of Americans. If you are not part of that two percent, you’re basically livestock.
By the mid 2020’s, two percent of the American population had more than 80% of the country’s wealth. After a million deaths following the government’s poor response to the COVID pandemic, corrupt politicians literally gave away billions of dollars to their politically connected friends. Years of corporate price gouging has destroyed the future of many Americans who are learning, just like everyone else, that there is no such thing as the “American Dream”.
And that’s where we stand today. Two percent of Americans own nearly all the money. They’re doing fine, getting richer every day while the average American’s standard of living gets lower. Who’s running the show? Who owns the politicians, the police, the government? In America, follow the money. Who has their say over every aspect of your life? Follow the money. It’s right in front of you.
Produced 9-1-24, published today due to no phone or internet service.