There are ways to destroy an educated, prosperous middle class--a population that has time and leisure to THINK and to engage in civic activity, a population that has high democratic ideals, that educates all children, that advocates for social and economic justice, that demands that the wealthy pay their proper share to create a good society, that overwhelmingly supports protection of the environment, that opposes unjust war and that demands ethical leadership, open government and a strong public "commons."
Such a population, with its active, concerned student class, CAN be destroyed. Consider the United States.
Here's the corpo-fascist program, as it happened, here:
Fight free college education tooth and nail. If there are "fees" at public universities already, fight to raise them--and add tuition and more "fees"; then get the banksters into it, with loans to pay the "fees" and the tuition, and inflated high costs of housing, food, books, medical care, etc., so that students have no time IN college for civic activity--they're working 2, 3 jobs to stay there--and emerge from college with huge debts to pay off and, again, no time for civic activity. Careers, careers, careers; money, money, money--that's all they get to think about.
This is what was done to higher education between the 1960s and today, in the USA: it was free to all, then; now it bankrupts the middle class, and, as for the poor, they don't exist.
Deregulate the saving & loan institutions to destroy small savers--for instance, parents saving up for their kids' college education.
Bust the unions--the agents of upward mobility.
Outsource all the good jobs, so people have to work 3 shit-pay jobs just to feed their families and have no time for civic engagement.
Start a war, to vacuum up the dropouts and foster militarization of society, and get people used to torture, killing and being "cannon fodder"--and having no rights.
Destroy any socialized medicine program that exists, through skyrocketing medical costs (including skyrocket costs of a medical education), to further destroy the middle class.
Put millions of poor people in jail, for long terms, on non-violent crimes like drug possession, petty theft and prostitution, in order to foster a permanent underclass and as a "lesson" to all that we have no rights. Guilty, innocent, it doesn't matter. Give them shit lawyers, if any. Unjust laws--ha, ha, ha. Foster rape in jail as a further "lesson" and threat. Feed them shit food. Ignore their medical needs. Subject them to every kind of dehumanization. And--best of all--round 'em up in black areas and ship them to white rural counties, to remove poor voters from the voting rolls and add these "warm bodies" with no right to vote TO the population numbers in the white rural areas, for government boondoggle purposes and filling Congress with assholes.
Make the middle class despair. Make the poor desperate. Assault the very mechanism of upward mobility--education. Encourage stupidity and low behavior and violence. Revile our once-revered teachers and scientists. Oh, the "program" has been laid out for all corpo-fascists, and it has been quite successful at destroying the USA. That's the key to it--destroy prosperity then there won't be any bothersome citizens to march, to protest, to vote, to influence, to demand FAIRNESS for all.
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