Bill Moyers
in latest installment, the story of two families’ one white and the other African
American for a period of end of Bush I to the Obama, they were the low middle
class. They were promise by the New Deal an opportunity. The context in 1930´s
the elite had a fear (and real one) the US was just a verge of revolution, and
the working class has another system to look, the Soviet and Anarchy in Spanish
revolution. The elite made a decision to open the mobility (while was open to
white/male). Fats forward with Neo-Liberal economy begin with Nixon and accelerated
by Regan and taken final hold under Bush II, the promise was forgot, the elite
did not need to kept the fear of alternative the state communism was reduce a
technocratic elite not different the elite of the capitalistic society, with
the exception everyone still believe in the upper mobility.
In the
2000´s after 30 years Moyers films show the idea of opportunity ended with 2008
collapse (the irony the reason why the credit was open beside the safe guard
the investment bank and commercial banks, ended basically open the chance for
speculation, but there was another underline, Bush II wanted privatize US
saving Social Security, not just for the profit, but to pay for Iraq conflict,
since the Democratic Congress Block such idea, the backup was to open credit
one reserved to male/white to anyone open door
to 2008 collapse), the families for lack of Job, with wages the working
class was promise and between 1950´s to 1970´s was truth, but the supply
economics and Neo Liberal economy took hold, the moving of the factories specially
under NAFTA Clinton, the door where close. The first question of the events of
the last 30 years (the author consider all began when Nixon, with Kaiser Permanent-California
began the for profit Health care), was question in the book “What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of
America”, by Tomas Frank ask, how the working poor are
send to Washington officials who the only interest is 1%, the disconnect is
clear in the last presidential US election, where Mitt Romney the son of one’s
Governor Michigan (who run for
president, but like father like son, his father talking about the Vietnam War,
he was (or the US) Brainwashed by the military) with his 47% comment, and then
trying to explain to sophistic acrobatics, where Romney to explain was not
exclusion of the 47% takers (for disclosure the author also belong to 47% of
the takers), without the acknowledgment the 1%, by tax subsidies access to
Taxes of the 47% due to nepotism, cronyism and access to decision makers,
something the 47% does not have and the rest of population being the middle managers,
today less of this upper white collar Jobs. Putman in his recent NY times
op-editorial Crumbling of the American Dream, where the Low Middle class, the
white poor and the middle class is shutout with 240,000 private college tuition
and State Universities are first to be
cut by the state elected officials.
A consequence is the twenty and 30´s are not buying
cards, does not matter how much technology or innovation if they are not consumers,
China, has his limitations, due the economic structure which base on export
economy, but China customers US and EU themselves in an economic hardship, and
the corruption in China created an inertia.
We have in history of the US had a trail of unpredicted
consequence in 1950´s the provided a Coup Etta in Iran to left elected government
because the left government wanted to nationalism the Oil to be used as
National Patrimony and impose the Shah to Iran, twenty years later Iran become
a Islamic Theocratic state with all his consequences.
In the 50´s in Honduras and Nicaragua, in 70´s with
Chile depose Allende and Argentina Junta, twenty years after with exception of
Cuba, with Chavez in Venezuela, Latin America move in some degree to the left.
99% including the 47% are out the economic system,
the power of the state only work when people believe, like having a chance, but
the American dream was never, in 19 Century Liberal Economy, and the underline problem
race in US (African America, First Nations or Latin), the fact demographic
changes, the twenty something stop believe, the stated lost his power, now what
left are seeds of a change-revolution, since the disconnect is so big, cannot
be fix, to late the revolution is
underway, the Billionaires sponsor education and political influenced had an strategy
to fragment society which work for the Republicans (and Democrats) for 30´s,
but now because there is not safety net, can not reach the same people, how to
make, the changes is underway.
Kaunas
