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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Tue Dec 19, 2017, 09:53 AM Dec 2017

GOP Establishes Medieval Aristocracy Of The Rich. They Are The Nobles Everyone Else Are Peasants.

The GOP believes in the "aristocracy" of the rich where there are laws and taxes for them and other repressive laws and taxes for the peasants who serve them. There may not be titles for rich people and GOP activists, but there might as well be titles. When it comes to laws and treatment of the rich and super rich they are like the aristocracy that built and lived the castle in Middle Age Europe.

The gated communities, country clubs and private estates are their castles. Everyone else are the outliers expected to support all their needs. Meanwhile the peasants get perhaps just enough resources to survive well enough to supply these same aristocratic rich everything they demand.

This reality of economic, social and economic repression are our new normal in the US since the election. We are being morphed into a feudalistic society right before our eyes. GOPPERS in Congress are our new rulers. They are the lords, ladies, Dukes, etc of this new great America. And they view religion as the controlling power that keeps peasants in line. The Elections they plan are just a store front. The GOP does not fear 2018 because they are already hijacking it as we speak.

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GOP Establishes Medieval Aristocracy Of The Rich. They Are The Nobles Everyone Else Are Peasants. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 OP

AND we provided the seed money for their private security underpants Dec 2017 #1

I think, they are called "Academi" nowadays. Not sure. DetlefK Dec 2017 #2

They would be doing themselves a favor to read the history of France. shraby Dec 2017 #3

history shows that when the gulf between the rich and the poor gets large enough... Javaman Dec 2017 #4

They are preparing and consolidating for the collapse, which they know is coming. Nay Dec 2017 #5

Why do the very rich want more wealth? safeinOhio Dec 2017 #6

It's not simply about wealth. Orrex Dec 2017 #8

unfortunately, in this dysfunctional country, the serfs are voting in favor of their poverty. KG Dec 2017 #7

and here is how the peasants in the late middle ages reacted to the same issues DBoon Dec 2017 #9

Nah, medieval peasants had it better off Johonny Dec 2017 #10

underpants

(182,829 posts)

1. AND we provided the seed money for their private security

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 09:54 AM

Dec 2017

Blackwater/Xe or whatever they call themselves now

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

2. I think, they are called "Academi" nowadays. Not sure.

Reply to underpants (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 09:57 AM

Dec 2017

shraby

(21,946 posts)

3. They would be doing themselves a favor to read the history of France.

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Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:04 AM

Dec 2017

Javaman

(62,530 posts)

4. history shows that when the gulf between the rich and the poor gets large enough...

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Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:06 AM

Dec 2017

very bad things happen to the rich.

it's coming, but not first without lots of pain to we the poor.

Nay

(12,051 posts)

5. They are preparing and consolidating for the collapse, which they know is coming.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:09 AM

Dec 2017

They're making sure they are on the top. When billions of the peons die off from climate change, they'll skim some of them off for a servant class. THEN they'll put energy, brains and money into ameliorating climate change with new science. The object will be to build a new feudalism in a world that is totally under their control.

It's a crapshoot whether they will survive, of course, but it's a chance they're willing to take, because they know that climate change will NOT be fixable unless most of the population dies.

We could have gone a different way, but we refused to. And now this is the result.

safeinOhio

(32,688 posts)

6. Why do the very rich want more wealth?

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Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:30 AM

Dec 2017

They have way more than they can ever spend, yet they are not happy. So, to feel really rich they need the middle class to have less and put more distance between them.

Orrex

(63,216 posts)

8. It's not simply about wealth.

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:41 AM

Dec 2017

Only peasants like you and me ask why they need more money. It's about amassing power and influence.

You and I have none, while they have tons. And they want more.

KG

(28,751 posts)

7. unfortunately, in this dysfunctional country, the serfs are voting in favor of their poverty.

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Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:33 AM

Dec 2017

DBoon

(22,369 posts)

9. and here is how the peasants in the late middle ages reacted to the same issues

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Tue Dec 19, 2017, 11:07 AM

Dec 2017

Before the 14th century, popular uprisings (such as uprisings at a manor house against an unpleasant overlord), though not unknown, tended to operate on a local scale. This changed in the 14th and 15th centuries when new downward pressures on the poor resulted in mass movements of popular uprisings across Europe. For example, Germany between 1336 and 1525 witnessed no fewer than sixty instances of militant peasant unrest.[1]

Most of the revolts expressed the desire of those below to share in the wealth, status, and well-being of those more fortunate. In the end, they were almost always defeated by the nobles. A new attitude emerged in Europe, that "peasant" was a pejorative concept, it was something separate, and seen in a negative light, from those who had wealth and status.[2] This was an entirely new social stratification from earlier times when society had been based on the three orders, those who work, those who pray, and those who fight, when being a peasant meant being next to God, just like the other orders.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_revolts_in_late-medieval_Europe

Johonny

(20,851 posts)

10. Nah, medieval peasants had it better off

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Tue Dec 19, 2017, 11:11 AM

Dec 2017

Better holidays, more self autonomy, access to the law etc...

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