It’s a dark day when one finally comes to realize that all of the dysfunction in states like California, and Democrat-run cities like… ALL of them… is not stupidity and it’s not an accident. The Progressive strategy is to make life unbearable for the Middle Class, that great moral, cultural and economic cushion that has so far stopped the ambitions of the Haves against the Have Nots.
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18 replies on “Taking Aim at the Middle Class”
Steve is precisely correct. The swine LOVE wallowing in their sewage, whether they admit it or not. “What you want is irrelevant. What you have chosen is at hand.” (Capt. Spock in “The Undiscovered country”)
Oddly- California, and many of the other states mentioned have large conservative populations. The problem is these states are overwhelmed by one or more extremely leftist cities that swamp their political scene. The cities then dictate to the rest of the state how their children should be raised, how their taxes should be spent and a lot of other bad things that governments should never be allowed to decide.
Perhaps the answer lies in separating these cities from the states they swamp. Make them city states. Think about it. Detroit would get the two dem senators they already vote in, and the rest of Michigan would elect two conservative senators. Portland would get the two dems they vote in and the rest of Oregon would get to elect two conservative senators. Repeat this for many other states. Leftists would never again control the senate. But they would be left with all the crap cities they’ve created to rule however they like. But they would not be able to use those small portions of our country to rule the rest of it.
And the middle class would proliferate and prosper.
The real problem with the middle class is two-fold. We are comfortable and ignorant. We tend to think if we just live our lives everything will remain the same. We ignore the news as much as possible except for sound bites. And we think things will just continue the way they are. Meanwhile there’s a whole class of society who protest every day to change things. They are outnumbered but they are very loud. And they tend to get their way if we continue to ignore them. Our founders hoped we would pay attention. We do not. Hayek point to that as human nature. We all want to just go along to get along.
simple solution repeal the 17th admendent
Yep. So true. See what’s going on in Oregon right now as an example.
Driving out the middle class is simple math – the most important constituents for Dems are the very rich and the very poor. The middle class is just a cash cow for taxes
If you read leftist literature their main explanation for crime and poverty in blue states and cities is Red State crime flight. Red states pass laws that drive out the poor, dispossessed, insane to the leftist city states. Its not safe to be poor in Texas, you may get shot while burgling a house. Crime as a remedy for poverty is fundamental to leftist ideology. If “property is theft” then “theft is reparation’s”. To some extent the non elite foot soldiers of the party see life as a post apocalyptic survival situation with the middle class as the well armed zombies.
People forget Marx was from a rich German Jewish factory owning family with a good relationship with the workers. Those workers were moving to the middle class. Marx was inheriting a lot of money because his spinster aunts kept dying without kids. He was at the top of the monied elites. He burned though two huge inheritances. He wanted to do a bunch of things that could not be done in a free society; abolish Christianity, abolish marriage and the responsibilities or family. He got caught in several adulteries relationships. He wanted to write not work and he was a bad writer. Everything published was cleaned up and published by Engels. Another alienated rich boy.
I disagree slightly with Bill a little, he is right getting rid of the middle class is a feature of leftist politics not a bug, but they still need plumbers and good cooks. They are still subject to the law of unintended consequences. The left can’t see a solution. Its perceived as the choice of fascist plumbers or nothing. They choose nothing. This, in part, is why they support illegal immigration. An illegal immigrant plumber can still fix pipes but can’t go middle class. That’s wrong too but they don’t know that.
Trump and the Republicans passed laws to fix the Dream act people but bureaucrats refused to implement them and Biden’s trying to reverse them. Easy legal immigration is another path to the middle class. The left does see that there is a problem but they write it off as a consequence of climate change, global and local over population and Red State crime flight.
In 1973, I heard Alan Keyes give a short talk on a radio station out of Washington, DC. He stated that LBJ’s Great Society had allowed the Democrats to replace the cotton plantation with the government welfare plantation in order to keep blacks in slavery to them. I have watched Dr Keyes’ words come true and be proved year after year since then.
The broad middle class acts as a social and economic shock absorber that softens economic disparities by filtering and dispersing the majority of the country’s wealth. A substantial middle class provides the ballast that keeps the ship upright.
Excellent analysis, guys. I’ve never wanted nor aspired to be anything but a middle class middle American. Maybe I just don’t have the drive or passion to seek heights of money and fame, or maybe I’m just wise enough to understand that making life decisions to achieve the desires of the ego can very often lead to downfall and despair. So, yes. I’m middle-class, neither oppressed by nor oppressive against anyone with the exception of the oppression by an illegitimate government that has almost never been “for the people or by the people” whose intent is reducing much of my country to ash and rubble, but most especially getting rid of my “class”. Perhaps this is merely the natural progression of societies composed of very fallible and wayward human beings.
I have many battles I’d like to fight with government, but their installment of 87k new IRS agents makes me pause. I now simply want to stay below their radar. Can you imagine complaining about your taxes, or perhaps something to do with immigration and suddenly the IRS shows up at your door? Supposedly not inter-related, yet…
One of the main things that makes the USA the USA has always been the capitalism-driven ability for the poor to get rich and the rich to get poor. We were free to take chances, take the reins of what we do with our money, good decisions and bad. 10% of the poorest become rich and 10% of the rich get poor every decade and there has always been fluid change in America, usually merit driven. It’s why people come here.
Democratic Party policies are more and more socialist. In socialism, there are the wealthy people telling us they are on our side and the rest of us suffer as a result, the upper middle class now the lower, the lower class even lower, and as long as the rich people who govern us can get 51% of the lower class to agree they are in better shape, it will continue.
I think well over 51% of people get stuff from the government with no taxes paid. Doesn’t bode well. I chose to use the word people because it’s hard to believe they’re citizens.
I think Steve should’ve said “voting” with scare quotes, about people in blue cities asking for more of the same.
Marxism sells resentment and envy. Which will always be with us. It’s always an easy sell to people who don’t have the proper values to reject it as an unworkable system that runs contrary, in the end, to human nature. But it’s an easy sell to the ignorant, and that’s how it remains so popular.
It’s why everybody gets poor under Marxism. It flips incentives on their heads.
Heh. Bill, it sounds like you read “Cynical Theories”. Great book. Eye opening.
I don’t know if it’s really designed to drive the middle class out. Go back and look at the phrase “Top down, bottom up, and inside out”. It’s to frustrate the middle class into begging for a revolution. For someone to come in and save it.
Which is, incidentally, how Germany got Hitler. You know, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The NAZIs.
But of course, our betters in this country won’t let THAT happen. They wouldn’t, say, sic government agencies on people who say things they don’t like … right? Or on their political opponents? Noooooo. They wouldn’t do THAT!
But all the trains will run on time, and you’ll own nothing and be happy.
Got it? Ok. That’s where they’re taking us. How do we stop them?
My dad packed us up and left Southern California in 1971. He said he could read the writing on the wall.
He was right — but — he also had NO IDEA what the magnitude would end up being.
My mom’s sister, my Aunt and her family, moved to CA in the late 60’s. When I was a kid we’d go out there to visit once a year and they’d try to get back ‘home’ for Christmas. We’d go to Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios, Marine Land and Ports o’ Call in San Pedro, all that kind of thing.
My sister and I would go with our cousins and hang out with the other kids in the neighborhood. Crime in Rancho Palos Verdes wasn’t a problem, no one worried about us kids getting snatched or exposed to drugs or anything like that.
I was stationed at Camp Pendleton down by Oceanside for a while. It was OK back then there too. I could go visit my family in my spare time. That was in the mid-70’s.
Due to a multiplicity of factors I ended up moving out to CA in about 1998 or so. It wasn’t terrible when I got there, it was still fairly decent even though the handwriting on the wall was becoming clearer and clearer.
By the time I left in April of 2013 a safe, sleepy little bedroom town on the southside of LA county had become a war zone. There were drive-by shootings, kids in large numbers hanging out in the alleys drinking and doing drugs, gang tagging everywhere, it had become Mogadishu.
I was never so glad to get out of a place in my entire life. At least when I went in harms way in the Marines I had serious weapons on my person. I had a rifle and handgun for light work and a radio that would call down hellfire and put it damn near exactly where I wanted it. I was supported by the resources of the United States of America and if things got all slippery I could damn well do something about it.
In San Pedro on the Harbor Strip of Los Angeles. in the County of Los Angeles, California, United States of America — I couldn’t carry any sort of weapon legally. But the uglies could, did and used anything they could get their hands on.
It was time to go, and so go is what I did.
I HATE California and I’m never going back there. Ever. For any reason.
What my dad saw, and few people did, I think, in the late 1960’s-early 1970’s, was the beginning of the cultural shift that laid the groundwork for today’s surreal bullshit. He didn’t know how far it would go, but he knew something wasn’t right.