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Luigi Mangione has them worried. I wonder why?
Unhappy the land that is in need of a hero — Bertolt Brecht
America is the richest country in the developed world with the poorest and most oppressed working class. It is a working class which since Reagan and Reaganomics entered the scene in the early eighties, has been bludgeoned and bruised by a combination of ruling class propaganda and economic warfare.
Increasing the profits of the rich and superrich at the expense of everybody else has been the result. The country’s middle class in this dynamic has been rolled out as the aspirational mantra of the merchants of an American dream mythos that has succeeded, and succeeded inordinately well, in sowing false consciousness across this god forsaken land.
Talk to cab drivers in LA, as I have done many a time in my time, or in New York — or indeed in any city across the US — and you find yourself in the company not of a victim of a capitalist system rooted in mass exploitation in the name of corporate profits and shareholder dividends, but rather in the company of a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
This mentality and mindset within the broad masses across the United States has for far too long been putty in the hands of their economic, social, and political oppressor. It has led to them seeking a saviour in the form of a maverick…