Panicked neoliberal tools attempt to trigger a war of generations against AOC's progressive counterattack
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We were slightly surprised to see such an article title in one of the primary info tools of the global neoliberal regime and financial capital. But the subtitle immediately clarified everything.
When we
read the title “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Revenge of the
Millennials” of the article
in Bloomberg, we thought that we might be in front of a small
miracle. We thought that the time has come for some people inside the
core of the establishment apparatus to admit that the younger
generations have lost dramatically from this brutal system. And so,
the time has come to overthrow it, take their 'revenge'.
But no,
it was too good to be true.
The
subtitle immediately revealed the trick: “The Democrats’ major
economic initiatives tend to favor the young at the expense of the
old.”
Then,
inside the article we read: “Almost every major new economic
initiative proposed by Democrats — the Green New Deal, Medicare for
all, debt-free college — has a common feature: Unlike most current
social programs, it would benefit younger Americans at the expense of
older Americans.”
Very few
can understand why these programs, and especially "Medicare FOR
ALL", will benefit only the younger. And not only that. The
younger will enjoy those benefits at the 'expense' of the older.
Where are the super-rich in the equation? Why not take a small
additional portion of their enormous wealth to finance those programs
for the benefit of all generations?
The next
paragraph gives a non-answer: “Since the New Deal, America’s
social insurance programs have primarily transferred resources from
the relatively young to the old. Social Security was designed as a
program to support those unable to work, but over time its spending
came to be dominated by payments to retirees. Medicaid was intended
for the poor, but now mostly pays for medical care for lower-income
older Americans. Medicare has always been focused on serving senior
citizens.”
And
apart from this deliberately oversimplified logic, this 'explanation'
also contains serious inaccuracies. Because it is known that the New
Deal was primarily funded by the extra taxation on the super-wealthy,
the big corporations and the big capital who had actually declared
war against FDR at that time.
Try to
find a reasonable explanation for the assumption that the proposed
social-economic programs will “benefit younger Americans at the
expense of older Americans.” You won't find any.
Yet, it
is worth to read the 'explanation' about the "Green New Deal":
“Likewise, the young have the most to gain from a Green New
Deal. First, and most obviously, they are likely to live long enough
to reap the benefits of any impact it might have in mitigating the
effects of climate change. Second, and more immediately, the Green
New Deal is likely to create jobs in the development and installation
of renewable energy technology. Both the technical skills and the
physical labor required for this work are likely to come
disproportionately from the young.”
We don't
even know how to label this 'explanation'. First of all, the fact
that the older are likely to live less than the younger, doesn't mean
that they will not enjoy the benefits of a Green New Deal. A Green
New Deal will overall benefit the planet no matter what your age is.
And besides, even if we see it clearly from the perspective of
cost-gain, as the dominant culture dictates, the older must pay their
fair share to the younger for the additional pollution they produced.
The rest
of the article is full of neoliberal 'emptiness'.
It is
obvious that this is just another typical neoliberal tactic of
'distraction' and 'divide and conquer'.
First,
the plutocracy is nowhere to be found in the equation, meaning those
who will read the article must be distracted from the key problem of
the enormous inequality. The super-rich must be left untouched, they
must not pay their fair share to the society. Therefore, they should
not be mentioned. As if they live in another planet, in their own
separate world, away from the 'pleb'.
Second,
conflicts inside the same class between different groups aim to
divide the power of the class. In this case, it is clear that the
article is part of the establishment's effort to trigger a war
between generations.
Notice
that the name of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears only in the title.
The symbolism here is powerful: she represents a generation that has
been 'infected' by Socialism. The ‘evil’ that must not prevail in
the United States, as the older have been 'trained' to believe for
decades by the corporate media propaganda.
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