Making America “GREAT” is a matter of perspective. For billionaires, great may be defined differently than it is for those with average finances. We have traditionally defined “Great” societies by their achievements. The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Mayans had “Great” civilizations. They achieved “greatness” with strength, leadership, and a rather strict class system that included slaves.
Our own nation got its start with the help of slaves and indentured labor in a system that continues in modified form to this very day. Slaves were emancipated only to find that form of human ownership replaced by Jim Crow laws and a form of servitude where below-subsistence wages, prison labor, cultural isolation, and extreme wealth disparity dominated. This period saw the “company store” that established a perpetual debt peonage and control over its workers.
So, the wealthy will have a different interpretation of greatness from their perspective. Is it any wonder that today, with a billionaire president and over a dozen billionaire key members of his administration, they are attempting to achieve greatness on the backs of a new class system. The new plan brings the return of “those wonderful days of yesteryear” that allowed the rich to get richer and kept the poor in their place.
They aimed to implement the idea that "He who has the gold, rules." To achieve this in a democracy, they devised Project 2025, a plan to divide, destroy, and conquer. They promoted their plan as a way to be "Great Again," appealing to a public desiring improvement.
What many didn’t realize was that Americans were already better off than most of the rest of the world. Was there room for improvement? Sure, but even our poorest state, Mississippi, has a higher GDP per capita than all of Europe’s top economies, save Germany. But the wealthy in America want more and what better way than to convince Americans that they could have even more if they allowed a billionaire class to take away a few freedoms with the promise of a better life.
The plan is simple, sinister, and devious by design. How to take over the richest and most powerful country in the world?
• Keep them barefoot, pregnant, and ignorant. Install tariffs that make their shoes more expensive, take away birth control and the right to abortion, eliminate the Department of Education, control what they read, control the media, and make higher education unaffordable.
• Destroy and replace much of the government. Fire government employees, eliminate the jobs, eliminate government departments particularly those providing social assistance to the poor. Install only loyalists in key positions where they can be directly controlled by a supreme leader.
• Shift the tax burden to the lower classes. Create a new system of tariffs that will raise the cost of commodities and provide a revenue source other than income taxes. Tariffs are a regressive tax where the tax burden disproportionately affects lower-income individuals, meaning they pay a larger percentage of their income in taxes compared to higher-income individuals.
• Use fear and intimidation to advantage. First attack immigrants with limited legal and financial means. Round up those immigrants in publicized events, put them in handcuffs, ship them to a foreign hellhole prison. If a few citizens suffer along with the immigrants, all the better.
• Establish domination with threats of extrajudicial means. Take over the FBI, CIA, NSA, and intimidate the federal courts. Ignore judges who don’t agree with your actions. Replace non-compliant judges where necessary.
• Use your bully pulpit to control Congress. Use your propaganda machine to keep the masses in line and fully supportive of your actions. Use the more militaristic of your followers to advantage to threaten others. Intimidate Congress and make them fearful of your fringe element and fanatically dedicated subjects.
• Eliminate the social safety net provided by Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and similar programs. The poor and unproductive members of society live too long and are a burden on the rich. They should have made more money if they wanted healthcare and a carefree retirement.
Yes, America will be great again. Great for the uber-wealthy, not so much for the rest of us whose only use will be to make life better for the new oligarchy. It works well in Russia, why not here?
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