{"id":113008,"date":"2019-01-07T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=113008"},"modified":"2019-01-07T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:31:52","slug":"americas-real-catastrophe-globalism-has-gentrified-the-cities-and-impoverished-the-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=113008","title":{"rendered":"AMERICA’S REAL CATASTROPHE: Globalism has gentrified the cities and impoverished the countryside—where does that leave US?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tucker Carlson and the Plight of the Yellow Vests<\/h1>\n

Tom Luongo<\/p>\n

I have to hand out sincere kudos to Tucker Carlson. His opening salvo for 2019 was one for the ages. It was a\u00a0broad-ranging, fifteen-minute rhetorical tour de force.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tying together Mitt Romney\u2019s vulture capitalism, unchecked immigration, political corruption and the destruction of the middle class family, Carlson laid out a story that if everyone took off their ideological blinders for a few minutes (myself included) would see as simply a horror show.<\/p>\n

Carlson\u2019s thesis is that the American family is disintegrating. He\u2019s right. But it\u2019s not just America. It\u2019s everywhere globalism has been the watchword of public policy, ie. Europe as well.<\/p>\n

The Yellow Vests in France began protesting over a rise in diesel fuel tax to support climate change initiatives and has morphed into a full-blown revolt against globalism, neoliberalism and French government institutions.<\/p>\n

It is the next stage of the dreaded populist uprising of Hillary Clinton\u2019s \u2018deplorables.\u2019 And it\u2019s jumped borders. This is the kind of color revolution I can support, not the fake ones ginned up by oligarchs like George Soros.<\/p>\n

But what I found interesting was how Carlson was tying together all of the strands of public policy decisions which has created this web of perverse incentives we live under.<\/p>\n

In short, globalism has gentrified the cities and impoverished the countryside. Rural job prospects are gone in many areas, not just in the U.S. but also in France and Italy and Greece, etc.<\/p>\n

But, at the same time the cost of living through excessive financialization of the economy in the cities has reached a point where middle class workers live like ants to survive the crushing expenses.<\/p>\n

This is what the Yellow Vests are protesting about in France \u2013and now Canada, Taiwan, Belgium and even for a brief moment, the U.K.<\/p>\n

The only ones #winning in this environment are the ones who print, direct and disseminate the money \u2014 the Mitt Romneys, the Jamie Dimons and the Nancy Pelosis.<\/p>\n

And if you notice any time someone proposes something rational about changing this dynamic they are denounced as \u2018reactionary\u2019 or \u2018threatened\u2019 or, in the worst case, \u2018populist.\u2019<\/p>\n

This, to me, signals that this dynamic, this process, hasn\u2019t been an accidental confluence of factors. That its not the unfortunate consequence of garden variety corruption of our political system but something far more sinister.<\/p>\n

It was designed policy.<\/p>\n

Which brings me back to Tucker Carlson. As a follow up to his first rant Carlson went off on Rick Wilson, a picture of vile punditry if there ever was one.<\/p>\n

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