New Political Class Secures the Yachts While Client Class Drowns in the Storm

Is it becoming clear to anyone during this latest economic crisis, that there are two distinct classes of people in this country? There are those who are paid millions as serverance pay for nothing more than failure. Then there are those who are merely reserve labor, social statistics or potential problematic voters that the two wings of the party duopoly must compete for in order to secure power and guarantee their corporate supporters 4 more years of special treatment.

It is ironic that the likes of Thomas Friedman would say that “"The loop we're in now, if we don't find a way to get America to go back shopping, to get a catalyst there [for the economy]…”(in Politico.com columnist Victoria McGrane’s “G-20 Punts on Global Market”). It seems that when push comes to shove some would want the people to bail “the market” out of its mess, including Bush who also urged America to go shopping shortly after the Twin Towers came tumbling down.

Well, I guess we know our allotted role, don’t we? We’re consumers. That’s all. So shut the fuck up and go shopping (whether you can afford it or not).

While its permissible for several large banks to sock away several million of tax payers money for a rainy day and further shore up their solvency by buying up smaller banks also with taxpayer money, it’s not ok for the American consumer, formerly known as citizen, to save for that same rainy day. We OUGHT to go shopping. We ought to buy American. We ought to suck it up. It’s ok for the ruling political class, the New Class, to be safe, secure, covered for health problems and always having the American tax coffers to fall back on when capitalism fails again and again, but not ok for the people to have the same social guarantee. Who do we fall back on? As Senator Phil Gramm recently announced: ‘Americans are a bunch of whiners.’

If you don’t get that this is effectively the most egregiously heartless if not effectively violently vicious class structured society that has ever been, wake up and smell the crisis. It is the latest historical phenomenon to point to the permanent crisis of Liberal Democratic Capitalism. The people and the polity are in effect expendable when the well-being and interests of the New Class are in jeopardy. Their solution is further centralization and bureaucratization in order to lock down control on our future and the democratic process which may provide voice to alternative paths for progress.

The first clear sign that democratic influence in confronting the economic crisis was surely off the table was when the first Bailout Bill which was defeated was also opposed by over 90% if the American people. But this mandate to let the failures fail was not enough for the Conservatives who shot the bill down to hold their ground in the re-vote given the $150 million “incentive” in the form of strategically placed earmarks. Read bribery. What a difference several million dollars makes. Big business wins and democracy loses. The will of the people is unceremoniously ignored. While the people are willing to pay the price for the mistakes if not the greed of big business, big business is not. They refuse the corrective that might in fact return Capitalism to a principled course. The people are will to be Capitalists and the Capitalists are not. Go figure!

We the People are now good for cheap labor, an easy source of tax monies when capitalism as such fails again and again, cheap votes in managed and engineered elections and cheap cannon fodder in our latest neo-imperialist wars. Little else. So if you didn’t hear it the first time: Shut the fuck up and go shopping. After all, there’s a sale at Wal-Mart. What a country! Or maybe join the army. We have another big fiasco coming up in Afghanistan if Obama feels the need to prove he’s not effeminate. He’s got to keep up appearances for that upcoming election in 4 years.