Look, I can already tell you how all of this is going to end. It’s going to end with the ruling families and the oligarchs here losing everything they have that they value.
They’re still not getting it.
I’m referring now to the rumors circulating about how Trump is preparing some meaningless tariffs against Chinese imports, as if 1) that would actually hurt China, anymore, and 2) the American people actually want that, and 3) that would benefit the US economy, somehow.
These plans, if true, are like tossing rocks at a battleship, hoping to sink it. This kind of stuff isn’t going to do anything good to the US, or harmful to the Chinese.
The problem that the US economy has is wealth inequality, not Chinese imports. The Chinese imports are just filling in a void caused by our real problems, which is that people like Trump, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Gates are literally hoarding all of the money in the country, so that none of it circulates in a normal, healthy manner that might create jobs and businesses.
Cutting off Chinese imports would leave this country starving, since businesses can’t grow here because people lack money to make them run. We would be left with nothing. Not increased production, not jobs, not anything, really. We would be left in shambles. The Chinese imports are *helping* this country, not hurting it. Without cheap Chinese goods, this place would be in ruins, since we can’t make anything ourselves, anymore.
This is the same problem that Trump’s equally dumb infrastructure project has. That project is hopeless and nonsensical as well. Take a look at the news: people here are driving less and less, each passing year. Each year, more stores close than open. Electricity usage is down, year over year. Shipping is down, year over year. So, what good is a road that is built if nobody uses it? What good is a mall that nobody goes to? Or a power plant that provides redundant energy?
Infrastructure is not our problem. Our problem is that we have far, far too many billionaires. We have too many rich people. They are strangling the country and destroying it’s future.
Nothing that Trump has done or proposed thus far addresses this problem, or even hints at a solution to it.
And until this problem is solved, China and Russia- ostensibly America’s enemies- will continue to make inroads into the places that the US thinks are it’s own backyard. I mean, read the news these days about how many countries in South America are making grandiose business deals with China. Why? It’s because China has a healthy economy (or at least, one much healthier than ours). They have a middle class; they have businesses that revolve around things not related to managing the wealth of billionaires. Thus, they can relate to others in ways that our own economy can’t. They can provide services that we cannot, since our whole country these days revolves around the whims of the rich and those connected to the ruling families.
Look, to the oligarchs- you must make some hard choices, here. You’ve been dodging this for generations now, but your time is up. The world is calling you out. Are you prepared to give up your wealth and position to ensure the survival of your country, if not yourselves? If the answer is no, you will lose everything.
I’ve been saying this now for like 5 years on twitter and on here. You need to give up, somehow. Cut your losses and throw in the towel on some of this stuff. Bow to the public, here, and cave in on some issues, like immigration. You don’t have the choice, anymore. If you don’t do this, like NOW, the Chinese will continue to make inroads up until the point that they own this country as well, and then you will be really and truly fucked, here. You will lose everything you have, including your religion. The atheist Chinese government will not put up with the kind of Jesus crap that you’ve been foisting on people. Christians are a persecuted, powerless minority in China. They are spat upon, basically. If you think that won’t spread to the Americas after China takes over, you are mistaken.
The Jesus crap has got to go, and the same with Islam and Judaism. This is the 21st century, here. The future is now; take the road or get run over.
Oligarchs- you have wasted waaaaaaaaay too much time, here. Way too many years. You need to start making an effort, here, to fix some of the problems that this country has. And you can start with an immediate cut off in ALL immigration.
And it you think this isn’t a good idea, you’re not using your head. At the rate that other countries are pushing the US out of South and Central America, it will be only a couple of years before this country is an isolated, third-world banana republic in our own hemisphere. And we’ll get everything that goes along with that, too, like violence against the rich, and extreme class conflict and endless revolutions.
To avert that- we need a middle class, and we need one like next week, which means that ALL immigration must end, like this week.
The ruling families here are still very, very confused. They still act as though they have time to “fix” things, with stuff like tariffs and taxes and plans, when in fact they don’t, anymore. The truth is that now, as in this week, the hard choices must be made.
The world is getting sick and tired of yelling at the oligarchs, here. That’s enough, you guys. You need to fold up the empire and actually rebuild the middle class in this country. And the first step MUST BE a severe reduction in ALL immigration into the United States. If it is not, don’t bother trying.