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Actually, it does hold up; they're not cutting serving military benefits, but veterans benefits and resources. If you're young and useful, the Plutocrats still want you working. If you're discharged or retired, they don't need you anymore. They want to incentivize competitive hubris, so if you didn't use that time and service to secure a spot in the upper classes, you are neither necessary nor going to be a problem for them anyway. The Plutocrats aren't running a hearts-and-minds campaign here; they neither need nor want to placate the masses. The masses hold far less power than businesses and corporations do. This is about subjugating the only citizens who matter: those businesses and corporations that might be able to sway the masses through pay. Egg prices soaring are not a concern for those who are too rich to notice or bite the bullet. It exclusively matters to you, me, and others at or beneath our level, who cannot effect change. A return to 1880s or 1930s levels of crime is not a fear of the Plutocrats, but an expectation. It is part of those short-term "sacrifices", the memetics of disorganized in-fighting they anticipate to solidify their control. The 20th Century was just a Golden-Era short reprieve from this status-quo. Now, some will blame the person in charge, and a few of those will even march, and it will effect as much change as it has in the last decade. Others will blame the scapegoats, and a few of those will even march, and it will effect as much terror as it has in the last decade. The amount of anger and hatred that any dissenting masses can foster against the Right is still not enough to even match the sway of the wealth of the Plutocrats who use the Right as a tool to secure their wealth and mobility. Those assassins were not Leftist, no, but they didn't lead to any sustained or organized movements. Neither did they inspire more people to turn up and vote against the man they attempted to relieve society of, nor were they considered a part of the Right by its plebeian loyalists. Both of these outcomes are the goals of the Plutocrats who use their police and information networks to rapidly suppress such disorganized violence and set an example. When you and I can't afford eggs anymore, we will just stop buying eggs, while still showing up to our jobs. I hope this pisses someone off enough to spark a domino-effect, but Nazi Germany didn't fall from within, and the U.S. Plutoracy is not likely to during our lifetime either. But hey, after the Trade Wars, if we indeed still have our jobs, things might reach a normalcy similar to life in the PRC, so after the dark period there's at least that to look forward to. |