It's always and only your fault. That's a tactic USAmerica Inc has employed for a very long time, with great success.
- Air pollution and Climate Change? That's your fault - you demand bigger and faster cars, and cheap energy sources.
- Trash flooding the landscape, and plastics poisoning the oceans? That's your fault - you're not recycling like we told you.
- Going broke because of your healthcare bills? That's your fault - you should watch your diet and get more exercise.
- Your job sucks and you can't make the rent? That's your fault - you need to work more, manage your money better, and give up all those luxury items.
- And And And
It's the Big Scam.
And the kicker: this fits perfectly with "conservative" articles of faith - ie:
- The government is always bad (unless it's GOP - then it's not really government, it's Republicans protecting you from evil socialist bureaucrats)
- As with all problems stemming from the hands-off, government-should-do-nothing approach, the marketplace dictates a corrective remedy instead of any effective prevention.
- When #2 proves to be disastrous, start again at #1
Repeat as needed.
Eventually everyone will be sufficiently confused or enough people will be dead so as to shut everybody else up, and you can go ahead and do whatever you want.
Because Republicans hate this country and its traditions of democratic self-government.
Their project is to tear it all down and replace it with a corporate plutocracy - blaming us for everything the whole time.
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