REAGANOMICS LEADS TO DISASTER

Everyone knows wages are going down, environmental pollution is going up, place safety is going down, productivity is going up, workers benefits are going down, and profits are going up.  People do not seem to understand where we are going as a society. It is incredible to say that they do not know or that they cannot figure it out. Our countries trajectory is on a crash course with social disaster.  We are heading from linear, ever-increasing stress, to chaos; like a breaking beam or a breaking wave, we are on a path from highly order society to the chaos of revolution.

Maybe it is an overreach on my part to evoke the French revolution as a warning of what might happen if we do not start to pay attention to how we are managing our political affairs. I believe the teachers among us have made so vivid the French revolution so that the excesses of the guillotine are unthinkable. Our own fight for independence from a domineering King, what we call our revolution, was child’s play next to the excesses of the French. 

The point of the post is that the increasing stress we are putting on our political system can break our carefully engineered society.  The people seem to want a more and more progressive government, while the social trajectory alluded to in the first paragraph seems obvious to have us heading toward a more and more conservative third world style of government; the 1% verses the 99%; plutocracies. The troubling part for me is that the American people act as if they don’t know what is happening. They are being paid low wages, working long shifts, called into work on weekends in understaffed work places, not paid for overtime, and are happy to have jobs. Managers are paid 273 times more than workers are. This is Reaganomics at work; you know the President for whom they named the Washington D.C. international airport. As an aside, it is the same airport where he fired air traffic controllers for asking for higher wages. How long can it last before we go nonlinear?  

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