The Source of our Rage: The Ruling Elite Is Protected from the Consequences of its Dominance

Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 5 months ago to Philosophy
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There are many sources of rage: injustice, the destruction of truth, powerlessness. But if we had to identify the one key source of non-elite rage that cuts across all age, ethnicity, gender and regional boundaries, it is this: The Ruling Elite is protected from the destructive consequences of its predatory dominance.
We see this reality across the entire political, social and economic landscape.

If you still don't understand how Trump could win, please read the above essay as many times as is necessary for you to get it: the status quo of corrupt self-serving insiders generates injustice and inequality as its only possible output.
SOURCE URL: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-source-of-our-rage-ruling-elite-is.html


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  • Posted by mminnick 7 years, 5 months ago
    The chart showing the holders of wealth have an interesting omission. They talk to the bottom 90% and the top .1%. Both now hold roughly equal wealth assets. Since the amount held jjointly is approximately 46%, that leaves approximately 54% to the "middle" 9.9% This is more than twice what is held by either iof the other secions of society. This middle block hold more sway tha either of the others as far as monetary power is concerned.True the power of the 90% is diluted across many more individuals and the poer of the top .1% in concentrated in many fewer people, the powr of the middle can swing one or the other into dominance. The elites need to be careful if the middle gets upset with them, they're do. (look at the just finished election for an example).
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    • Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 5 months ago
      Yes! When someone says gov't should do something (e.g. pay for people's college, stop ISIS in Syria, subsidize healthcare, fight a war on people who like drugs or guns) they mean that "middle 9.9%" will do most of the lifting.

      It would be a tiny increase in hassle if the gov't updated withholding tables at the same time it enacted any spending initiative. "Why's my paycheck lower?" "Sorry, they sent out new withholding tables as part of that new gov't initiative they were talking about in the news."
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago
    Perhaps the ruling elite will no longer be protected. I would like to be a realtor that focuses on listings in Washington, DC right now.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 5 months ago
    This article says a "Ruling Elite" is responsible for income inequality. It says with wealth comes a "social contract" that has "privileges" and "a responsibility to the nation", in the words of the author. It doesn't say what this responsibility entails, but the rest of the article is about income inequality.

    If income inequality does not go down, this author will say the "Ruling Elite" is to blame.
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