The privatization of America is upon us
Say goodbye to public education. Say hello to vouchers for private schools.
Say goodbye to the U.S. Postal Service, a target of Republicans for decades.
(Perhaps) say goodbye to Medicare. It’s at the top of Paul Ryan’s hit list.
(Perhaps) Social Security will be turned over to the roulette table called the New York Stock Exchange.
Virtually everything, everything, currently run by the U.S. government, and many state governments, are about to go on the bidding block. This has been the GOP’s wet dream for years. And they now have the power to make it come about.
How do we fight this? We don't control the White House. We don't control the Senate. We don't control the House. We are about to lose the Supreme Court, perhaps for decades to come. A Republican majority runs two thirds of the state houses and are led by Republican governors.
Our control over any of the levers of power is minimal at best. So how do we stop, or at least stall the privatization (which could also be called the "bargain sale"
of America? Beats me.
Suggestions?
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Minimum wage. Some of the nuttiest wingnuts like Michele Bachmann have not so long ago advocated getting rid of it. That alone would be a giant step backward toward slavery. I don't even like to mention it for fear they'll pick up on it and push it and decide they like it and--boom! Gone.
...all that will be owned and operated by an oligopoly or outright monopoly, where the government is the company and the company is the government, and the vast, vast majority of us are but cogs in the machine. The end state of unregulated capitalism.
Kind of reminds me of....
Art many times reflects reality.
