Brzezinski: Wealth inequality could lead to social unrest

[markpkessinger]

Ex-national security advisor warns inequality could lead to unrest

* Posted on 07.6.11
* By Eric W. Dolan

Former National Security Advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday to discuss how income disparity in the United States could lead to civil unrest.

He said civil unrest was likely if the middle class became more severely affected by America’s growing income disparity and economic troubles.

“I don’t want to be a prophet of doom — and I don’t think we are approaching doom — but I think we’re going to slide into intensified social conflicts, social hostility, some forms of radicalism, there is just going to be a sense that this is not a just society,” Brzezinski said.

He added that the United States had slid into a pattern of “really drastic” social inequality, and that the inequality could only be endured if the whole country was economically successful — which it is not.

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[hobbit709]

1. No shit Sherlock!

[theaocp]

2. water = wet, too

They pay this guy, too? What a racket!

[bunny planet]

3. rilly

ya think

[Aerows]

17. Rilly

[femrap]

4. Shopping at Pitchforks R Us! nt

[Brigid]

30. Can you get torches there too?

I need to get fully prepared.

[femrap]

32. Yes....sale

this weekend. Buy One, Get One Free!

[arcane1]

5. In other news...

[Aerows]

14. LOL that made me laugh

:spray:

[socialist_n_TN]

21. Me too. And OL........

:rofl:

[arbusto_baboso]

6. YA THINK?

[glinda]

7. I wish. Cannot come soon enough. Lock up the greedy.

[WinkyDink]

8. THIS Ziggy?

http://www.counterpunch.org/brzezinski.html

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic , having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

[valerief]

9. IF ONLY! nt

[bemildred]

10. The light dawns. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. Let me guess. His moron daughter just sat there with that frozen smile. nt

[BadgerKid]

12. It just takes critical mass of those who have nothing to lose, literally. n/t

[Aerows]

13. Fire is hot

Cutting Social Security and Medicare won't help, and could end up being the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Hell, I'm surprised we've lasted this long without people snatching bankers off of Wall Street and beating the shit out of them in the streets publicly.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Light the torches and sharpen the pitchforks.

Why do you think FDR came up with the New Deal?

[socialist_n_TN]

23. +1. SO many people don't realize this

or won't admit it.

[Taverner]

16. Maybe there will be a job boom - in private security jobs for rich people

Who was it that said they can always have one half of the poor kill off the other half?

[Fumesucker]

20. Private security guards are just mercenaries with a different name..

Machiavelli didn't think much of mercenaries..

http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince12.htm

[socialist_n_TN]

22. Jay Gould.........

Big Glided Age capitalist.

[vssmith]

24. This time around they have land overseas and their jets are fueled.

[socialist_n_TN]

25. And that's why the revolution needs to be

worldwide.

[baldguy]

18. Sometimes, the blatantly obvious must stated out loud.

[socialist_n_TN]

19. Let me add one: Yuh THINK, Ziggy????

nm

[The Big Vetolski]

26. "Guillotine, oh, Guillotine, how I love my Guillotine."

That's a song I just made up, dudes! At least the Brzezinski dude knows enough of his history to be concerned. Unlike his oh-so latte' liberal daughter. Even Mourning Joe has more sense than she.

[applegrove]

27. Mexico is really unequal and look at the crime problem they have there. There is no chance for

a middle class living unless you join a gang so people do. Same thing in some poor neighbourhoods in the USA. Some people will do anything to not be poor and if there is no upward mobility they do crime.

[roamer65]

28. Delete.

[roamer65]

29. Ziggy knows the Afghan War is doing to us what it did to the USSR.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. BRAVO! Maybe the more of the elite that talks about this

the more of these idiots will realize this little problem

[kestrel91316]

33. Gee, ya think??? He's smart. I betcha he larnt about the French Revolooshun.

[SlipperySlope]

34. How much inequality is the right amount?

I wonder how much inequality is the right amount?

A certain amount is necessary. Some inequality will come from the fact that some work harder than others, and I believe that hard work should be rewarded.

But we are reaching the point where the whole system looks rigged. The inequality is just used to create more inequality. People aren't being rewarded for their labor, but simply because they are already rich and powerful.

I'm disgusted by all of it. It makes me want to cry for the American dream.

[onethatcares]

35. then he hopped on his private jet to join other

insanely wealthy persons at a retreat in the mountains of Italy where the proles were pushed off the cliffs with bulldozers.