Where Are We Going in the New Trump Era, Post NATO Acts of War?
It’s about two weeks after the election of Donald Trump in a resounding victory over the Biden/Harris regime. In an earlier post on Substack, I noted that, in retrospect, his win is not surprising. The Democrats have betrayed their base over and over and over again, beginning at least with the 1944 coup against Henry Wallace, who advocated cooperation with the Soviet Union.
But ‘The Real Owners’, as the comedic prophet, George Carlin called them, or in later times, The Deep State, the entrenched bureaucracy, the Neocon/Neoliberal Blob–it goes by various names successfully crushed the social movements of the people, with the Peace Movement against the Vietnam War, and the anti nuclear movement of the 1980’s being the last gasps of the role of civil society.
A Steady Downward Spiral
Here is just a quick off the cuff review of losses of the people, aka, the Working Classes since WWII.
- Taft-Hartley Act, which the Democratic Party supported despite Truman’s veto was a strong attack on organized labor.
GE CEO Charles E. Wilson spoke for all of corporate America when he declared in 1946 that “The problems of the United States can be … summed up in two words: Russia abroad, labor at home.” Breaking labor’s power was central to their project of restoring corporate control of society, and legislation introduced by Congressman Fred Hartley and Senator Robert Taft was their weapon of choice.
My comment: Gee, do I see a pattern forming here? Well, they’ve pretty much smashed organized labor, so I guess the fat cat’s have settled on Russia…and more recently China, whom they shipped all the good paying jobs to–and then blamed China for stealing our jobs when they gave them to China in the first place!
And here is a pregnant comment from a post about the Taft Hartley Act
“For such a man of the people, Truman managed to offend a lot of sectors including many in his base. I guess that’s why his approval ratings were so low when he left office.”
- The McCarthy era of rabid anti communist red baiting
https://www.collegesidekick.com/study-guides/ushistory2ay/the-cold-war-red-scare-mccarthyism-and-liberal-anti-communism-2 “HUAC made repeated visits to Hollywood during the 1950s, and their interrogation of celebrities often began with the same intimidating refrain: “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?” Many witnesses cooperated, and “named names,” naming anyone they knew who had ever been associated with communist-related groups or organizations. In 1956, black entertainer and activist Paul Robeson chided his HUAC inquisitors, claiming that they had put him on trial not for his politics, but because he had spent his life “fighting for the rights” of his people. “You are the un-Americans,” he told them, “and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.” As Robeson and other victims of McCarthyism learned first-hand, this “second red scare,” in the glow of nuclear annihilation and global “totalitarianism,” fueled an intolerant and skeptical political world, what Cold War liberal Arthur Schlesinger, in his The Vital Center (1949), called an “age of anxiety.”….. In 1958, radical anti-communists founded the John Birch Society, attacking liberals and civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. as communists. Although joined by Cold War liberals, the weight of anti-communism was used as part of an assault against the New Deal and its defenders. Even those liberals, such as historian Arthur Schlesinger, who had fought against communism found themselves smeared by the red scare. Politics and culture both had been reshaped. The leftist American tradition was in tatters, destroyed by anti-communist hysteria.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962