‘DIVIDE AND RULE’ CONTINUES

Trump v. Harris—Starmer v. Badenoch—Albanese v. Dutton—etc., etc.

Are we getting there yet? Are things getting better? The tanking towards economic depression has become palpable, but do either Trump or Harris acknowledge the greatly rising wealth disparity that foreshadows and accompanies financial collapse?

So, are there any good guys on the political scene? Anywhere? If so, are they speaking out on this issue? Nup!

Does the US election really matter, as long as we allow rent seekers to continue ripping off we plebs under whichever incoming regime?

Politicians have learned to play the game: You don’t challenge the people who’ve designed our tax regimes to tax incomes and purchases while they cream off the nation’s land and natural resource rents. “Our what?” That’s correct: we don’t understand their mechanism. We may talk about the increasing cost-of-living, but not the tax regime which generates it.

There is one remarkable feature, though. Whereas the really big rent seekers usually prefer to remain anonymous–well, relatively anonymous–Elon Musk chose to throw his lot in with Donald Trump for the election this week. Why? Having bought Twitter for $44 billion in cash, Musk has left no doubt on what he likes to call ‘X’ who he wants in power because Harris is virtually the end of the world. He’s using the same simpleton-like catch phrases employed by Trump.