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Politics 101: STOP believing your own propaganda!

arguspanoptikos:

“ECONOMISM The reduction of social and political goals to their economic dimension, characteristic of Western ideologies. Economism is an offshoot of the

This is senseless.  It’s not even an argument, it’s a naked (not to mention unsubstantiated) claim.  There is not so much as an attempt to support a word of it…

Economics is a fact of life.  Period.  You can’t have civilization without it.  Period. Ancient Egypt, for example, didn’t even have money per se — coins — until the Great Pyramid of Giza was already 2,000 years old or so, but they still had an economy, they still relied on economics and there was still asuch a thing as economic disparity.

Economics are a bit like the Atlantic ocean, Elm trees or gay people in that they exists whether you “agree” with them or not.  Economic forces are at play whether you think they should be or not, and they shape a society whether you accept this fact or invest every last ounce of mental power into denying the bleeding obvious.

Now, that said you’re not entirely wrong, only mostly wrong.  We have lost our focus in this nation, we have lost our “economic” senses in the sense that everyone & everything is geared NOT to the lives of people but to some big, nameless, faceless “Economy.”

Put another way:  The focus is 100% on “economic indicators” — statistics — and not people.

They tell us that the economy is great, that we’re out of a recession even when tens of million are unemployed and tens of millions more or earning LESS.  And that’s because “The Economy” grew, even if fewer & fewer people are sharing in any of that growth.  It’s the corporatist mentality, the “Bucket” problem.

Corporate America will give execs a “Bucket” to hit, a goal — a number they have to reach.  Often this is a stock price.  Most execs will move hell or high water to hit their “Bucket”  — reach their goal — and rake in a hefty bonus.  To do this they’ll lay waste to employees, customers, other departments within the company and ultimately the future well being of the company itself.  But they’ll have long since cashed their check so what do they care?  And if there’s something wrong with what they’re doing then it’s their bosses fault (or the board) for not clarifying…

The corporatists who run our government think “Economic growth is good” and so the economy grows and then they pat each other on the backs for a job well done… ignoring the fact that 90% of the nation just lost ground…

Fact is that our economy could easily shrink — recede — some 20% or more and we might still be a lot better off… if, say, they richest 1% lost most of their money (about 40% of the economy) and half of that went to “The Bottom” 90% of Americans.  

So in this sense you might be right in that “Economics” have taken on a life of their own — and have supplanted living — but you’re totally wrong if you think the problem isn’t an economic one, or that the solution doesn’t center on economics.

Again, economics exists.  Period.  Economics are important.  Period.  Economics is power, it’s political stability and it strength.  Period.  This has been true in all of human history, going back BEFORE money was invented, and it will remain true no matter what.  Period.

(Source: werewolvez)

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special-snowflake-hall-of-fame:

pigeonredd:

I notice whites love competing with me on who has it worse, especially when they have a shitload of privileges over me.

Except you ARE white, middle class, and in college. The only privilege I think most people would clearly have over you is adult privilege. Or at least adult-passing privilege.

And it’s not even a full Moon

destroy-capitalism:

There are numerous problematic aspects of libertarianism,

This would be an example of “Argument by Assertion” — a fallacious argument. How many problematic aspects? What are they? Why are they problematic? Is there a different view, a different way to look at things?

No real information is given, no questions are acknowledged much less addressed…

but in this context the problem with libertarianism is that it insists upon unlimited amounts of power be given into the hands of corporations.

What libertarians? What are their names? Where are they? When did they say this? What are their precise words?

Again, you offer NOTHING but empty rhetoric.

We already know that capitalism thrives on exploitation of the poor.

Correction: You BELIEVE this!

And implicit in your claim is that exploitation is somehow lacking in any other system. No evidence for this — piles of evidence to the contrary in fact — but what’s reality to you? It’s just an obstacle to your many baseless assertions… the empty rhetoric you stream…

Now this makes, what, the FOURTH time I’ve pointed all this out to you? Any chance of it sinking in? Any chance at all that you’ll at least attempt to rise above the recitation of talking points? Propaganda?

No?

I didn’t think so…