@Rothmus
It’s all fake and gay. Government and media manufactured the “class war” then pivoted to race war to absolve the state of blame for the 2008 crisis, sideline the Tea Party with racist media attacks, and consolidate power in leftist hands. The crash was produced by Fed money printing, Fannie and Freddie guarantees, and government mandates that forced risky loans into the system. When it collapsed the insiders got bailed out. The public absorbed the damage. The Tea Party demanded accountability for the bailouts and spending. Media met that challenge by branding the movement racist from the start. That attack neutralized a direct threat to big government and crony finance. Occupy was tolerated because it focused on banks and left the state’s central role untouched. And since the “racist” accusations worked on the Tea Party, the pivot to race delivered new tools for state expansion. Media usage of the word racist surged after 2012. Equity and systemic claims became the justification for deeper government reach into hiring, lending, education, and speech. The result is consolidated leftist power. The administrative state grew larger and more intrusive. Progressive ideology gained institutional dominance while opposition gets preemptively discredited rather than debated on substance. This sequence protected the government from reckoning with the crisis it created and shifted authority toward those who thrive on bigger government and identity based control. Now the woke narrative is crumbling, watch them pivot back to a class war.
