It's Not Counterproductive to Hop Off a Train Headed for the Wall

[NashVegas]

In response to:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5431624

The essay you've pointed to, if that's typical DLC, the above are reasons why so many on DU are so pissed off at that organization for its idealist (although its purveyors seem to think their philosophy is more pragmatic) notion that the good guys can occupy the top spot and control the wreck known as global trade / global corporatism.

The truth is the only way it can - the only way anyone can is to excersize an iron control over human nature and subvert the desire for self-determination.

And, supposedly, that's not what we do in the U.S.A. That's what they do in non-Democratic societies - historically connected to the allegedly dreaded communists, those governments that ordered their population into various jobs based on what the thinkers determined was necessary for the economy.

Think of the American classic TV holiday special: Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer. Americans sympathize with Herbie the Elf, who wants to be a dentist more than he wants to put toys together. Call it Republican "rugged individualist claptrap," if you want but that's our historical ideal in America - you can be what you want to be and there will be a place for you.

The United States of America's economy got along very well, thank you, for two hundred years pretty much self-sufficient, paying fair prices for the goods it imported and receiving the same from its exports.

Twenty years after the Bi-Centennial, we ain't. In order to keep the global corporatists happy with America, we have to train our workers to do the jobs Wall Street & the markets want, at the salaries the stockholders want them to have - which is not much.

If being a highly trained tech worker is a glorious and necessary thing, why don't some of these corporatists crying "our people aren't well-enough trained for tech jobs" ditch their desk jobs and get that engineering degree? Better yet, get it and go teach?

The so-called "new economy" - the corporate tech ideal - is a forced economy. Small independent businesses are forced out of the market, individual farmers are forced out of landownership and are turned into serfs if they still want to work it. A virtual repeat of Stalinist collectivism.

The DLC agenda isn't really all that different from the neo-cons: Stalin with a stock portfolio.

[donheld]

1. These "trains" haven't even left the station yet.

It's months before we need to board a train. I refuse to get on any train till I see where it's going AND till it's close to time for it to leave the station.