Coming into the 21st century, our country was beset by looming decline. Our industrial base was going, going, gone, and with it millions of well-paying blue-collar jobs, the Democratic Party base. It was replaced by a so-called “financialized economy,” which was sanitized language for sets of swindles and frauds allowed to operate in the de-regulated banking system, in concert with the politicized Federal Reserve and crooked Congressional interests — you notice how many politicians paid $175-K a year somehow acquired multi-million-dollar fortunes?
Per the Agenda 21, which GHWB signed in 1994, but there is a bigger picture than that, which comes back to organizing principles.
It's interesting that Mr. Kunstler cites the race hustle without including the GLBTQ+ sex hustle, which is far broader and has far more serious long-term cultural consequences that will be much harder to reverse.
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