"They roll back environmental and social protections: pulling out of agreements on climate mitigation, desperately promoting a building boom, directing expenditure to the military, promoting non-solutions such as nuclear power, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, all in the name of GDP growth, for they know no other god."
#elitePanic
#ElitePanic is an underappreciated factor in political and social life: "“The community aid is something we need to continue to support, but it’s a drop in the bucket. What we need is more government assistance. We need FEMA assistance. We need the federal government to step up and do its job. You know, we have seen a level of response from both federal and state governments. But that response hasn’t been bringing in aid, it has been bringing in police. I have seen police from Charlotte, from Louisiana, from Atlanta. All this manpower wasn’t sent in to distribute supplies, or to clear the roads, or even direct traffic. It was sent in to make sure hungry people, thirsty people, desperate people couldn’t get the supplies they needed. Those police and the private security which we saw guarding grocery stores, could have helped with distributing supplies instead. But that’s not what they’re doing.”
"In theory, humans can work together and respond to threats like pandemics and global warming. We have a lot of evolutionary baggage working against us. The elite exploit these weaknesses to keep us divided.
This is what's holding us back."
https://www.okdoomer.io/you-arent-the-one-panicking-they-are/?ref=ok-doomer-newsletter
#climatecrisis #PandemicIsNotOver #inequality #elitePanic
Since when has telling anyone to "calm down" yielded anything but the opposite?
The Politics of Panic
Do you know who panics the most during disasters?
It's the rich.
It's the politicians. It's the elite. It's the riot police. They don't panic about actual death and suffering.
They panic about money.
They hide crucial information.
They deceive us.
They called it elite panic.
It's very effective.
"Incompetent bureaucrats pose more of a danger to Seoulites than North Korean rockets" Kim Jong-dae, visiting scholar at Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies
"Citizens remain unfazed, but the South Korean elite are gripped by confusion and fear."
while they don’t say this clearly the undercurrent is that police and prison guards in the u.s. are not awful because we lack training for them but because we DO train them to fear poor, Black and immigrant people. basically all the so-called “animal” behavior comes from the incessant whetting of white supremacy from our media, politicians, leaders, who are only working to protect their own access to wealth. #elitepanic #abolishthepolice #thinveneer
Extreme poverty is on the decline, extreme inequality is on the rise https://boingboing.net/2018/08/07/economic-speciation.html #everyoneshrugsbackatatlas #echatologywatch #guillotinewatch #corruption #elitepanic #inequality #climate #piketty #poverty #Post
Why Democratic Socialists aren't afraid to call themselves "Socialist" anymore https://boingboing.net/2018/07/29/putting-the-democratic-in-soci.html #democraticsocialistsofamerica #electoralcollege #gerrymandering #2018tsunami #elitepanic #democracy #elections #thes-word #scotus #uspoli #Post
Group behind voter ID, stand your ground, ag-gag, private prison, anti-muni-wifi, and killing Obamacare now planning rules for jailing pipeline protesters https://boingboing.net/2017/12/13/free-as-in-free-assembly.html #onlycorporationsarepersons #libertarianinnameonly #guillotinewatch #hydrocarbonism #corporatism #elitepanic #mniwiconi ##nodapl #piketty #Post #alec #1a
"Less lethal" is a deceptive term to describe the weapons that routinely kill and maim peaceful protesters https://boingboing.net/2017/11/22/the-right-to-protest.html #militarizedpolicing #therighttoprotest #authoritarianism #warprofiteers #warcriminals #less-lethal #elitepanic #protest #Video
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