FROM: Krugmanville QUOTE: “I’m waiting for the .1% to realize that increase in d

FROM: Krugmanville

QUOTE: “I’m waiting for the .1% to realize that increase in demand will bring increase in earnings. The path to profit maximization does not include depression. At some point politicians and private equity firms will realize stimulating the economy is in their interests.” /QUOTE

Curt Doolittle, Seattle WA

It may be comforting to view one’s opposition as clueless, stupid or ignorant. But it isn’t true. This conservative strategy has been consistent since the Reagan era, when conservatives looked at demographic data and determined that it was no longer possible to work within the state, only in competition with it, in an effort to bankrupt it.

So your argument about the .1% “realizing” something, or that they can make more money funding consumption doesn’t wash. It’s not about money. It’s about constraining the state. The .1% are ‘hired’, and empowered by the conservatives as an opposition to the intrusive state’s assault on norms. So, no one is clueless here. It’s a strategy and it’s working. And it’s going to continue to work because of demographics. Because of those demographics, polarization is a permanent property of the American empire.

The founder’s use of majority rule assumed a dominant christian agrarian populace. It was a vehicle for preserving the power of that social order through common interest. Addition of women to the electorate undermined that dynamic. Immigration altered it. Breeding rates made it permanent. Urbanization and density preference exacerbated it. And the result is necessary polarization as one group that’s biased female uses the state and the other that’s biased male uses commerce. And nothing is going to change that dynamic other than a substantial decrease in single parenthood, and small households, or a rapid change in racial breeding rate distributions. Since those factors are unlikely to occur in an industrialized society, the polarization will be exacerbated and permanent until there is some conflict that restructures the constitution, or some innovation that renders the state less meaningful as a means of redistribution.