Richard Wolff: elites are offloading cost of declining US empire into everyone else #economics #usa

[rodneywoods]

Keep the debate going Mr Wolff, it is the best way to air these problems. You are doing a great job in my opinion.

[shizuokanemoto]

French Revolution style is coming . That is why riches are building bunkers to live in and storage goods to survive.

[ahnraemenkhera]

It’s a bit premature for the accolades directed toward either of the two political parties (left), I’d say. Waaaay too early to paint blind optimism over the 40-year sheer Denial and Gaslighting that have successfully-obscured harsh Economic realism from the Education of the USA-concept—but almost nowhere else on the planet—for about 40 years of church-wealth-building hobbying, instead of Religious practice.

The next-to-last Economic realists in-office were actually Jimmy Carter (a nuclear physicist who played-down his military credentials), William Clinton (hated, excoriated and shamed for the same undergirding biases that ousted Carter from a second term) who AT LEAST submitted a profitable national budget, and Barack Obama, who staved-off a banking collapse and an economic Depression of seismic impact (who then was generally hated for doing so, along with being hated for “socialized” healthcare budgeting. That was the gaslight excuse made for “the hatred” anyway. No real reason to have bought that one.)

IF, for whatever reason, and by whatever practicable means, a six-time bankruptcy petitioner against his own creditors is now, in 2025, going to cast the magic he’s promised beforehand, during three (3) campaigns already lost-track-of by the truly deranged (politically-viewed), MOST people of no particular party-affiliation WILL welcome his contributions, according to the Resulting Outcomes for their own individual prospects.

But starting-out with fresh “spin” isn’t boding well for that Outcome. Neither are the premature rebels who don’t seem to know exactly what to oppose as yet—ASSUMING they oppose anything, which is a real LEAP of imaginary competition. Between whom, about what, for what?

Running the public sector workings like a pizzeria has been tried before, too. With shoddy results, especially, in overcrowded cities. They bear that ThirdWorld cast now—not merely racially although that’s obvious. But Economically, compared with enclaves of Privileges re-routed and diverted OUT of their taxable bases, used to fund the upkeep of pick-me monarchs.

Mass firings of workers in almost any industry known are usually indicative of a fire-sale coming up (in one way or another). The “explanations” of magic, alchemy, and the heavy-handed brow-beating of old, established, Economically-connected alliance spokespersons and leadership don’t bode for any good fortune coming, either.

Only candid admissions, methodical audits and summary assessments conducted in a timely-but-precise manner could possibly pave the pathway for presentments of Fact grounded in Truth, at this very point.

People in the USA, all of them, deserve at least as much candor as citizens of other nations with complete healthcare and Education costs assumed by their governing body(ies) get each and every day, including the reports about the US. As per NATO, followed by ‘glasnost, ’ btw.

IF the Russian-concept Econ module is succeeding, in fact, then show-and-tell HOW, without ordering journalists and dissidents ‘disappeared.’ AT the LEAST.
Nobody got a job-description, outside of the current cabinet, to flatter and make-merry any presidents!! That’s not anybody else’s vocation! Never was. Nor was kowtowing to a wealthy and privileged elite class, while cutting-off his/her own individual Freedom in order to do so.

People are again being mass-deported, it’s underway. Many more will leave for other places now that their livelihoods in this place have been ruptured altogether. It WOULD be pointless to “stay and fight” with air, and with any other elements in order to be soothing, which isn’t being Free, whatsoever.

Truth, Justice, Correctness (Balance) are never predicated in false statements, crafty lies, staged performances, and then reversals immediately-afterward. Never.
Even Cecil B. DeMille couldn’t have pulled-off a script calling for that many pink elephants!!

TDS, paranoia, and hyperbole over mediocre-to-failing “policy” aren’t being “sold by” Richard Wolff. A presentment of Fact isn’t handled in that way—ask any patrol car-driving officer. Facts don’t have political affiliation. Gravity doesn’t either. Nor does barometric pressure. Nor litmus paper.

Neither should three (3) “virtually united” branches of government—a one-party government now, for all intents.

The campaign season and campaign rhetoric should have ended in November. The national-concept is three (3) weeks away from a first-quarter in, as to Performance and as to tangibles.

Do “we” have the same balance books to read from as cabinet members of India-concept? Of Latvia-concept? Of South Africa-concept? If NOT, hidden agenda & “Project 2025” are all that remain in-store, evidently.

It still remains to be seen what OTHER sorts of practices will be set forth as “fixes.” The appropriate time for reasoned ovation will be when they work, smoothly and successfully, in-tandem with whichever “world-standing” they engender. Neither “globalism” nor “nationalism” are halting Time and Energy wasted on Vanity, on seething Ambition, in Ignorance, on Greed for Everything, on old-time Envy, on Systemic Injustice/Racism-WS most of all. Reshaping and editing Trade & Commerce, History, Civics processes and geopolitics is “attempted-globalism, ” in fact. It’s just a Nixon-era globalism, in reverse, with additional “enemies lists, ” oddly excluding dictatorships. The real agenda behind doing that needs to be publicly unpacked. But then, I suspect that is why the Justice Department is being dismantled now.

[franktrecroci]

Where will the globalists flee if U.S. falls ? Russia, China, India, S America, Europe ……..nowhere…….maybe Antarctica 😂🥳🥶

[neilcampbell]

Society will comprise of a minority who live behind high security walled houses or communities. And those who don’t.
Those who do, will live in relative luxury, worrying about when the revolution will scale their walls.

It’s completely avoidable. Those with more just need to accept that proper wealth distribution will keep them safe.
They might even find that they feel better about themselves, enjoy genuine community, and live a happier life..

[rodneywoods]

Mr Wolff keep talking. Many of us know these things but are patient for those now catching up. Tell us more about how to defend ourselves! Personally, I am paying it forward with the chickens I support at a kid's house plus a friend who keeps more chickens. Most of us recognize a little TDS, BUT, we will grant that because you are mostly right which we all want to be. Many of us hope total failure can be again delayed for another four generations. Our only hope for that is Trump. Otherwise we want too know more about how top defend ourselves and or stave off the failure for another 80 plus years. Those "rich" seem to be hanging with the empire instead of abandoning it. We consider that a positive. Another thing we want to avoid is sending our kids to the death filled slaughter in a new and apparently misunderstood new war-fighting configuration that no one seems to have figured out. Old Mr Tr is willing to try to avoid that for a bunch of losers that really do not care about their own or us.

[lloydeldridge]

You mean runaway inflation. Yes, Esau Edom, your time is running out.😊😊😊

[franktrecroci]

Poor Dr Cry Wolf…….audience keeps shrinking

[allanroser]

Little bit of TDS still in the pipes Richard?