Cartertonian wrote:Hi Tainari
First of all, Wales and Scotland are devolved administrations, the former being run by Welsh Labour and the latter by the Scottish National Party. Both are somewhat dependent on funding from Westminster, but how they choose to spend that is down to them.
More broadly however, I think your observation of the insidious and subliminal influence of the class system has some merit.
British and wider European history is a tale of fiefdoms and kingdoms wherein the peasant classes toiled to enable the landowners to indulge themselves, whether that be in lavish lifestyles or wars of conquest.
Despite the intervening Centuries, that pernicious social dynamic has not really changed. The only difference is that the fiefdoms and kingdoms have been replaced by corporate and vested interests, with new lords, ladies, kings and queens whose position is assured through their wealth. The 'peasants' can now aspire to a better quality of life, but they are still in servitude to the new economic aristocracy.
The net result, here and elsewhere, is that a human being's essential worth is measured solely by their contribution to GDP. If you are not both economically active and productive, you are part of a growing underclass about whom the new aristocracy cares not a jot.
On a side note, I saw Ben Shapiro has been saying that he can see no justification for retirement. Further proof, perhaps, that the modern economic aristocracy believe that we little people should have no life other than to work to enrich them. Getting close to a dominant attitude of 'Arbeit Macht Frei' in the 'free' world?
I find British society curious in that they did not take the French route. Of eliminating the Monarchy. As an institution that is no longer really important. It is obvious you do not need a monarchy to have a functional government.
I also find it interesting how the English tend to not protest strongly enough to oust administrators or politicians from their positions. The Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands are fiery and relentless with protesting and ousting. They tend to be rebellious in general. The working classes in the UK tend to be kind of used to their place in society and do not do much for the people who keep living the high life at their expense eh? In the US you really can't live off the dole for more than six months. It is just not possible Cartertonian. Most public assistance is very limited. The idea that you can spend years living off of unemployment insurance, or welfare payments in the USA is not possible. They also give you less than needed for survival. So the incentive to get another job is high in the USA. In the UK it is like a very slow burning. Just enough to survive but not enough to find decent work transition and they do not put a cap on it. It is interesting.
Too much passivity towards the overlords I would say is the problem Cartertonian.
San Juan crowds wanting the governor to resign:
It reached very hard heights. And they forced his resignation.
Those young people are not happy with the status quo.
Another thing Cartertonian, the US government keeps telling us we are Americans from the fifty states. Culturally, linguistically and historically we are Latin Americans 100%. And more than one hundred and 127 years of US rule is not changing that. They are absentee landlords who also do not give a damn about us.
They usual tactics they used in the past are not working anymore because they refuse to invest in the island at all in meaningful ways and if anything gets done anymore it is the locals who make it happen. Once they get used to running things on their own without any help from Washington DC, they will contemplate a major confrontation.
I hope the US does not do its usual thing with Latin America. Send in the jackals, and go and assassinate the leadership, and then bomb us from the sky, call us terrorist drug dealers, and then send in the troops and murder thousands of us. Lock down the nation and then take it off the news and or starve us out financially.
I have zero respect for American imperialism. It is awful. The worst of it all is that so many of the Europeans believe their outright lies about Latin Americans ALL THE TIME.
It is bad.