owlsbooks Chapter 2062 Please vote for me! ! ! !
Chapter 2062 Please vote for me! ! ! !
Chapter 2062 Please vote for me! ! ! !
The melee turned Chicago into a real war zone.
At the same time, it also triggered conflicts between blacks and whites... To be honest, the American anti-dragon-slaying tactics are indeed conducive to ruling, but they are not conducive to integration and unity!
They subdivide the population into countless groups step by step according to their differences, and even artificially create conflicts between these groups. This will save the cost of ruling in a sense... After all, the cost of appeasing an entire class is very different from the cost of appeasing a part of the population.
The ruling class in the United States is only that one percent! They occupy 40 percent of the society's wealth!
And this one percent rules the remaining ninety-nine percent!
The tripartite structure of American social classes: slave owners, free people, and slaves.
Although people have a consensus on civilized society and believe that slavery no longer exists in modern times, in fact, slavery has never left human society. It is just that in different forms of civilization, the manifestation of slavery will be different. In the agricultural civilization period, slaves were serfs. In the industrial civilization period, slaves were labor slaves. In the post-industrial civilization period, slaves are voting slaves.
American democracy is the control and manipulation of the vast majority of the population in a post-industrial civilization society, using the judiciary, the media, the state apparatus, ideological shaping, and mental control. This is a new and upgraded form of slavery. Most people look at the United States just like standing on the street and looking up at a skyscraper. They only see its beautiful and neat curtain wall, so majestic and tall, but know nothing about the internal structure of the skyscraper. To truly understand the United States, you have to go inside it and analyze the power of American society, so that you can see through the essence of the United States, rather than just seeing the curtain wall appearance that it deliberately presents to people. Why can a skyscraper stand without collapsing? Because it is supported by the internal structure, not the curtain wall. Why does a country rise, why has it not perished yet, and when will it perish in the future? What supports all this? It is the power structure. The power structure of a country is as important to the country as the internal structural support of a skyscraper. The ideology of democracy is the curtain wall appearance of the American skyscraper. In fact, what supports the operation of American society is another set of internal structures: power. It is naive to make political analysis based only on ideology, just like an architecture student who has only learned the knowledge of facade decoration and knows nothing about engineering and mechanics designing skyscrapers.
Many people who study American politics, starting from the ideology, believe that the power structure and system of American society is shaped by a kind of pluralistic determinism. In layman's terms, pluralists believe that the power structure of American society is discrete, decentralized, and de-classed. All Americans, like the Brownian movement, collide and compete with each other, and eventually form the national policy and national will of the United States, which ultimately reflects the interests and demands of all Americans. The United States seen by pluralists is like a tourist on the street who only understands a skyscraper through the curtain wall of the facade. What they do is just an analysis of the phenomenon of American society, not an analysis of the power structure. Therefore, their cognition, conclusions, and analysis methods are all quite superficial and wrong.
From the 18th century to the present, the proportion of total social wealth owned by the richest 1% of the population in American society has been a relatively stable value: around 40%. This proportion has always fluctuated around 40%. At the lowest period, it was around 35%, and at the highest period, which is now, it may have exceeded 50%. The 1% of the upper elite class is ruling the United States. This is the first basic fact about power analysis in American society.
So, who are the 1% richest people? 95% of this class are white men, 3%-4% are black, and about 1% are Asian. If we look at gender, the proportion of women is only about 5%. Judging from the asset structure held by this class, they are almost all interlocking directors of the top 1% of large companies in the United States. This class is intertwined to form a corporate community. The big corporate community is the highest class in the United States, the power heart of the big capitalists who rule and control the American economy and society. In terms of power, class, ethnicity, enterprise, and wealth, the 1% of American society overlaps amazingly. This is the second basic fact about the analysis of power in American society. This elite community is the slave-owning class in American society. The top 20% of the wealth distribution in American society accounts for more than 85% of the total social wealth, and the current data has exceeded 90%. This class, excluding the top slave owners, constitutes the free class of American society. They are property owners, but they have not yet entered the slave-owning class.
The remaining 80% of low-income people, their wealth, accounts for less than 10% of the total wealth of American society. They belong to the slave class of American society. This is the panoramic view of American society: 300 million slave owners, 6000 million free people, and 2.5 million slaves, that is, the garbage population in the eyes of slave owners. If you have a deep understanding of American society, you will be confused by the general ignorance of Americans. They are the most developed country in the world. It stands to reason that Americans should be very smart. Why do many of their citizens not even have the most basic common sense? For example, more than 300 million Americans sincerely believe that virgins can get pregnant and that angels really exist. The United States is the country with the largest population in the world that believes in the existence of angels. In fact, most Americans are not smart. The locomotive that really drives the American empire train forward is only the smartest 300 million people. million elites drag more than million garbage people forward. This is the third basic fact of power analysis in American society.
There is also a division among the slave owners. The core of this group is the British and Germans. The reason why a few blacks can enter the highest class is that they are stewards for this core layer to manage the huge black population. The slave plantation society in the South has always had this tradition, with black stewards managing black slaves. From this core, the Irish and Italians are the periphery. Why was Kennedy assassinated? Because the periphery cannot be the main wife. Wanting to join the core club of slave owners, on the one hand, the Irish are politically incorrect in terms of descent. They are Celtic, not Germanic. On the other hand, the Irish believe in Catholicism, and the British Puritans in the United States are sworn enemies of Catholicism. Third, the British discriminate against the Irish, even more than they discriminate against blacks. Although they are white, they are dirty, crazy and violent. They used to be serfs of the British. How can serfs turn over and become slave owners?
Of course, this differentiation is not all good.
There are also disadvantages.
That is, there is no consensus that everyone can accept... There is no doubt that the United States is strong. After all, as long as you stay in this big collective, everyone has a piece of cake to share, it’s just a matter of how much.
But with the decline of American hegemony, the pie is getting smaller and smaller, and this division has become fatal.
When the benefits demanded from the outside become less and less, the internal circulation will naturally begin!
This is the objective law of the development of things.
But the problem is that the fall of American hegemony was sudden. It was not a long-term process, but a series of major events that led to a sharp decline in American strength, even more sudden than the stock market.
No one is prepared for this... In fact, if someone suddenly traveled back a few years and told the Americans that they would lose their dominant position in a few years, everyone would think he was a lunatic... After all, it came too suddenly.
In fact, there were signs of the weakening of the US hegemony before, but they were just signs. According to general rules, it would take at least several decades for the US to really fall from its hegemonic position.
But reality is always stranger than fiction.
Because fiction requires logic, but reality does not.
American hegemony is gone in an instant.
No one was prepared for this, so this internal conflict caught everyone off guard.
Many people don't even have the most basic psychological preparation.
So the contradiction becomes even greater.
Just a few years ago, although everyone was at the bottom of the social ladder, life was often still bearable. Even if they did not work, they still received subsidies and benefits.
But as the situation changes, the United States itself has been forced to significantly cut welfare benefits.
Although policies to stimulate the economy were also implemented, and many more jobs were created in the United States, the problem was that many people's ideas had not changed, such as black people.
There are two kinds of living conditions for the lower-class blacks. One is the poor who work diligently but can only do low-level manual labor (dishwasher, waiter, salesperson...) due to lack of education, and their annual income is usually less than 2 US dollars. The other is the poor who indulge in decadence and live purely on government subsidies. Most of them have never worked in their lives. They have lived in government housing with their parents since childhood. When they grow up, they apply for disability appraisal (mental illness, depression, etc.) to cheat government subsidies. They rely on government housing and food stamps for food and accommodation.
Many people think that the United States is not a welfare state... This is actually a wrong idea. The United States has welfare, but it is far inferior to the welfare of those Nordic countries. But it is not bad. First of all, housing. Let's take a look at a set of data from 2005: 46% of poor households own property. The house owned by a typical poor household has an average of three bedrooms, a garage, and a balcony. Yes, this data from more than ten years ago shows that nearly half of the poor in the United States have their own houses. It doesn't matter if you don't have a house. The government will provide housing subsidies. According to regulations, the rent of the poor cannot exceed 30% of their income. That is to say, if your salary is $1000/month, you need to pay $300 for the house, and the remaining 70% is paid by the government. If your income is 0, you can live in some places for free. This part of the government-subsidized houses is called government housing. Many of them are not only in the best locations in the city, but also relatively large, with free water, electricity, heating, and washing machines and dryers. But not everyone can live in government housing, because there are too many people who want to live there, so they have to wait in line. As for where to live during the waiting period, you have to solve it yourself. If you really need a place, you can just live in a shelter.
Then let's look at the living conditions. Here is a set of public data from 2005: 7% of poor households have a color TV, 50% have two or more color TVs; 76% have air conditioning; 75% have a car; 30% have two cars; 73% have a microwave; 62% have cable TV; 33% have a dishwasher. So, overall, the lives of the poor in the United States are not as poor as we traditionally think. The United States has a "nutrition supplement program" where anyone with an annual income below 130% of the poverty line can apply for a subsidy. Usually a family of four can get up to $649 per month. If there are children in the family who go to school, breakfast and lunch in primary and secondary schools are free for poor children. In addition, there is a place called Foodbank that provides free bread, milk, meat, fruits, vegetables, desserts... The poor can get them for free.
So this has created a large number of lazy people... There's no way around it, many black people can live without working (but they can't live too well, they just muddle through).
But as the economic situation changes, many benefits have been cut!
Those who work hard are fine, after all, there is no shortage of jobs, even if they have to work in a factory to screw screws.
But the problem is that many of them are not willing to work, and those low-level jobs are very tiring! Expecting these people to work... is too much!
They don't work and their benefits are cut.
It is easy to imagine how resentful they are.
So after the black-white war broke out in Chicago, similar conflicts occurred all over the United States.
But unfortunately, at this moment, all the superheroes disappeared.
There is no way. Superheroes can intervene in this kind of thing. After all, it has risen to racial conflict. Superheroes will be in trouble no matter whether they stand on the side or not. It is better for them to just disappear.
For a time, the United States actually felt like it was in turmoil.
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Of course, this is only a minor problem for the ruling class...really, only a minor problem. Because there is no elite class among these people!
The black elites have long been bought off. The previous Black Lives Matter movement had a large number of black elites participating, but this time, there are only grassroots blacks. They have no organization, no program, and even less goals.
There were only a few slogans, and most people just took advantage of the chaos to smash, loot and rob... a pure mob.
This is also what I said above, there is no unified consensus among the grassroots, they are divided among themselves, and they have not pointed their spearheads at their real enemies at all. So the harm caused is just like that.
If it were in the past, people would even sneer at these black people.