Joe Biden's War on the Middle Class - the war American socialism must win, before it can advance to the next stage - is a multi-pronged attack. Here are two of the prongs: reducing the economic freedom of the Middle Class and making it more dependent on government.
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Believe me, Biden and his handlers have no intention of bungling the War on the Middle Class like they bungled Afghanistan. They will not retreat an inch, not with final victory in sight thanks to the Wuhan coronavirus. American socialism must defeat the middle class to advance.
How do you defeat the middle class of a huge and prosperous nation? Casting them into abject poverty with one massive economic attack doesn't work, because the middle class combines economic AND political strength - it's why socialists hate and fear them so much.
The middle class has to be weakened and subjugated carefully, with relatively subtle attacks from different angles, or it can fight back at the ballot box. It must be stabbed in the back and bled out slowly and quietly, not confronted head-on.
The core element of this strategy is to keep the superficial qualities of middle-class life in place for as long as possible, but slowly hollow them out while making the middle class more dependent upon the State. The Left pretends to be your friend while it slides the knife in.
One tactic is to reduce the economic freedom of the middle class through inflation and taxes. Make everything more expensive, reducing the buying power of the middle class while its income is seemingly undisturbed. Dollars are choices. Smaller dollars, smaller choices.
The middle class begins losing its fusion of economic and political power - its ability to disobey and resist the commands of socialism - when its buying power and economic freedom diminish. People with fewer options are easier to control. They'll be content with less.
The other prong of the attack is to dynamite the paths to independent prosperity - the ladders into true middle class freedom for low-income people, the roads to wealth that middle-class folks can follow with hard work and sound investments. Upward mobility frustrates socialism.
The way to smash those ladders out of poverty and blow up the roads to wealth is to attack the next income level ABOVE the middle class, the Evil Rich. The beauty of the War on the Middle Class is that the true targets don't realize they're under attack.
True middle-class independence, achieved without State welfare dependency, flows from the next level up. Rich people give you jobs, especially the kind you take out expensive student loans to get. Rich people invest in your enterprises and become your customers.
Giant welfare programs "paid for" by taxing the hell out of job creators and the investment class is a perfect attack on the Middle Class. It's like defeating a castle under siege by burning all the surrounding crops. Upward mobility will be annihilated. Classes will freeze.
The goal is to make middle class life something the State distributes - and can take away from the disobedient - not something people achieve on their own, through free choice and the healthy pursuit of opportunity. You will be given things, and have fewer choices.
At this point, giving the State more money and power is delusional insanity. What the hell more does anyone need to see, after the pandemic debacles and the endless Big Government disasters of the decades before it? Our top priority should be taking money AWAY from the State.
But instead, the Democrats want to take more of your money, reduce the value of the money they let you keep, and suck the blood out of the free-market mechanisms that could help the poor and middle class prosper as they rebuild a shattered economy. This is by design.
Socialists are the greediest people on the face of the Earth, greedy beyond the wildest dreams of the robber barons of old, but it's not just their lust for money and power guiding them at this turning point in American history. It's a very deliberate war strategy.
It's the freedom and independence of the middle class they hate, not your cars, houses, and retail consumption - despite all the venom they spew about those things through left-wing cultural products. Anti-consumerist rants are usually a smokescreen for the assault on freedom.
You can keep your goodies, for a little while longer at least, until the guaranteed failure of socialism destroys the economy that produces them. What the Dems want to eliminate is your CHOICES, your independence, the link between your economic freedom and your voting strength.
"This bloated spending bill is free because we'll pay for it by raising your taxes" is the battle cry of a final doomsday charge against the Middle Class. No upper class = no middle class = no economic freedom = no disobedience. Everyone will know their place, forever. /end
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