Gaius Publius — America faces more than a dozen deadlines, all caused by billionaires and wealth transfer

Here they are, numbered in no particular order, but grouped:

1. Accelerating transfer of wealth to the .001% (“the billionaires”)
 

2. Accelerating transfer of manufacturing out of the country 


3. Marginalization or destruction of effective labor unions
 

4. Destruction of the middle class (i.e., the consumer class)

5. Capture of government by billionaires of both partie


6. Capture of the Republican Party by anti-Constitutional billionaires via Tea Party-financed candidates

7. Constitutional changes, including changes in practice to rule of law and an ever-widening circle of elites with immunity from prosecution

8. Creation via trade agreements of a transnational state that enshrines corporate sovereignty

9. Permanent war and a permanently expanding military


10. Permanently expanding national security state, including militarization of police, widespread spying and punishment for political crimes


11. The ticking time bomb of increasing numbers of returning untreated war-damaged battle-trained veterans

12. Oil dependence without recognition of oil as a soon-to-be-depleted energy source


13. Deterioration of the environment, largely due to oil and carbon dependence, among other causes


14. Destruction of the integrity of our food supply

15. Destruction of public education

16. Climate catastrophe and the collapse of human populations and level of civilization

Every one of these has the potential to run to a destructive and permanent end-point.

I don’t want to discuss them at length here — that  article is still in draft. I just want to present the list for your consideration. A few will be discussed below, but only for illustration. My bottom line, and the surprise discovery, is that every single one is driven by one common cause — internationalist billionaires.

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America faces more than a dozen deadlines, all caused by billionaires and wealth transfer
Gaius Publius
(h/t Naked Capitalism)

It used to said that knowledge is power, now it is wealth is power. This is the underlying issue with rising inequality and the rise of a global super-class as the new oligarchy.