re: #168 EPR-radar

I suspect that in normal times, the plutocrats get things to go more and more their way by simple relentless persistence (e.g., sooner or later, the multinationals will get their overseas tax holiday). Money talks, after all, and there is grossly inadequate sustained opposition to the plutocracy agenda. Furthermore, it is impossible to see how such opposition could form in a population that is either over-worked or desperately looking for a job.

Only at crisis time (e.g., the great depression), is a leftward lurch is possible. This doesn’t bode well for the future, since if this model is correct, the grip of the plutocrats will only be loosened by an actual revolution, or by a crisis so severe that it makes revolution a real threat. The great recession didn’t do the job.

History suggests this view is correct. The rich need to give serious thought to this, but one reason they’re rich is that they think they deserve it, and that it’s the Natural Order Of Things, so they’re not likely to see the long knives and guillotine blades being sharpened until it’s too late.