In terms of its control of the State Apparatus, the Owning
Group in the United States has two major problems facing it. One is
long term, the other short term. The long-term one is that, as is
well-known,
the demographics of the country are gradually shifting. By mid-century
or so it will be majority
non-"white." The short-term one, which
has just become apparent to it, is Donald Trump.
The Owning Group has clearly been aware of its long-term problem for quite some time. Although there are no guarantees in this regard, the chances that such a population would, through the electoral process, turn the nation back towards a 21st century version of the last "liberal" type of national government, a combination of the New Deal and the Great Society, would certainly increase. That would mean, among other things, that profits would go down, the ridiculous concentration of wealth in the "One Percent" would be somewhat diminished, government regulation of the economy and the environment would be increased, global warming would receive serious attention (seriously affecting the fossil fuel industry) --- that is if it would not already be too late in that regard --- the military-industrial complex would be scaled back, labor unions would be strengthened, "public spending" on a variety of programs that benefit significant sectors of the population would be undertaken, the massive, ultra-necessary investment in the national infrastructure would be undertaken, there would be some kind of national system for funding health care services, and so on and so forth.
Nothing revolutionary here, but certainly very threatening
to the Owning Group and the control that have had over the state apparatus at
the Federal level and its current policies which include virtually none of the
above since the time of Ronald Reagan.
They have done this through the Republican Party of course. But with, to a greater or lesser extent, they
have had the cooperation of the Democratic Party, taken to the Center-Right,
beginning in the mid-1980s, by the Democratic Leadership Council under the
leadership of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
As I pointed out some time ago, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding,
Barack Obama was a DLC-er . As was, of course, Joe Biden. Their legislative record which reflects that association
is well-known.
Source: OpEdNews.com
