the elite class of the United States (and not only) got really scared by the occupy wallstreet thing. that one was really, really close to home. so they spend the next decade making sure any revolt movement that rightfully points at them as culprits of societal harms, is incorporated under the identity politics umbrella. they probably give money equally to the groups that subordinated the tea party grassroots movement and to the ones that control the race/gender issues. my impression is that there is no grassroots civil movement in america anymore, everything is under corporate umbrella and control, corporate that gives you all the rainbows and trannies in every movie and fat women wearing bath suits that you want as long as there's zero talk of equitable economics, which there isn't. not in any meaningful way. you're more likely to hear putin or the taliban talk in congress than to have an honest talk about the massive, simply out of control separation that's going on between the ultra rich and the rest of the society.
the elites have won in a way that's unbelievable to me. absolute nuclear blast annihilation. they reached critical mass and there's zero way they could ever be accountable to anything, sovereign actors or else. the large societal groups are absolutely fragmented on ideological basis. the payment for apparent societal progress is entertainment and a sense of purpose which is derived from meaningless bickering over identity politics. it's what we do here everyday. if i owned sherdog, it's what i'd like to see - meaningless, endless bickering which drives traffic. if you owned a country, what would you like to see? well, similar stuff - meaningless bickering, encouragement for base needs - give them cheap food, entertainment, keep them dumb, make them pick a side, consume, consume, and never, under any circumstance, allow any form of higher purpose to form. control it through the politicians you buy, through the lobby groups that do your bidding, through the think tanks you control and sponsor, which host the people that regurgitate endlessly the messages you want, that went to the universities you endow and are taught by the teachers you sponsor, through the media you control and split in sides that both take money from you.
it's a farm, mate.
