It’s naive to believe that this is anything aberrant to begin with.
They have been setting up this stage since the fucking New Deal made concessions to the working class to stymie a growing threat of working class revolt. Not even a few years later they enacted Taft-Hartley and began dismantling union power.
There was a slight resurgence of working class action during the Civil Rights movement but unfortunately that was all co-opted by the establishment in order to keep the working class divided.
The Gilded Age rober barons were pissed they lost their fiefdoms and then began to systematically claw it back from the people ever since.
It’s naive to believe that this is anything aberrant to begin with.
They have been setting up this stage since the fucking New Deal made concessions to the working class to stymie a growing threat of working class revolt. Not even a few years later they enacted Taft-Hartley and began dismantling union power.
There was a slight resurgence of working class action during the Civil Rights movement but unfortunately that was all co-opted by the establishment in order to keep the working class divided.
The Gilded Age rober barons were pissed they lost their fiefdoms and then began to systematically claw it back from the people ever since.