The Most Creative and Most Destructive

You have to give Trump credit for his initiative, go big or go home! Don't fuck around, right? He has embraced the role of Disrupter and is pressing the accelerator all the way to the floor. Who does this, other than Al Qaeda or Isis maybe? Poor Liz Truss gave it a whirl, but she was a piker, a pretender. Not like our boy. And just as in the world of professional wrestling, there is going to be pain, or what the economists call "creative destruction". Lots of little people with their little dreams destroyed. All for the Greater Good, mind you. Capitalism has to clear out the dead wood every once in a while and guess what sucker! Hasta bye bye. This is why it is humorous to hear social psychologists like Jonathan Haidt say the problem with kids today ( besides smart phones) is a lack of moral order. Too much wishy washy leftist "relativism", as opposed to good old right and wrong. This ignores the rather obvious fact that the capitalist system within which they are embedded is totally amoral. The only guiding principle is might makes right. Dog eat dog. The whole "moral order" schtick is just for the proles. Kids see our "moral order" at work as we invade countries and drone strike "suspected" enemies, send them off to foreign prisons or execute them here at home. Or dismantle the already tattered social safety net. Or on and on. The NYTimes had a piece titled How To Protect Your Retirement, the unspoken subtext being you want to be rich to start with. For instance, it begins with the assumption you have one million dollars to invest. all the people living in their cars will need a different "retirement plan". What does "the resistance" offer? Support the Democrats and vote harder. For Corey Booker. They will promise to listen better, not mention trans people, cut back immigration quotas, forget the Green New Deal talk,etc... But they will just give us more of the same Compete With China, Build The Middle Class bullshit and nothing will stop the inexorable slide. Israel will remain free to annex whatever it wants, expel whoever it wants. Oil prices will fall and people will slash the tires of Teslas and the rain will continue to fall on Tennessee. It's not enough to say "No" or "Hands Off". This is what Pussy Hats said, what BLM said, what Occupy said. On the AFL_CIO webpage we read: “now is the time to be even louder” — but suggests no other action. Other unions are keeping their heads down as well. I went to a huge Bernie/ AOC rally and saw lots of people angry about oligarchs but none of the speakers were willing to suggest that gross inequality is just a symptom of a much greater problem. They kept railing against "the system" but they never gave it a name. Every body hates rich people but in capitalism, everybody wants to be one. The only ones willing to challenge the new tarriff regime is China and one suspects they actully have a plan. None of my money is in stocks but I do wish I had bought some gold a year ago.