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Tariff That Destroyed the American Economy in Just Weeks (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Powderhorn to c/politics

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A cautionary tale as Trump decides to do this again. I see no way around this being an engineered collapse given historical data. Essentially, if you think 2008 was bad, think more 1930.

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[–] semisimian@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We all have to ask why this is happening, because it sure as hell isn't because of immigration or fentanyl. If the powers that be are trying to trigger another Great Depression, what is their end goal?

In the US, since the 60s, we have been steadily marching towards the complete privatization of all industries. With the current administration clearly dismantling the federal government and saying things like opening up the public parks for private interests, I think this is their end game. The first Great Depression led to strong government intervention; now, with a mere shell of a federal government, the only ones poised to act after a second Great Depression would be entrenched corporations.

They will buy all the land from bankrupt farmers and carve the US up into smaller corporate States. Individual Americans will own nothing. The corporate States will jockey back and forth to drive profits up at the expense of all natural and labor resources.

It will be hell.

[–] Powderhorn 8 points 2 days ago

The endgame appears to be a final wealth transfer via engineered collapse that ensures the plebs never again have the resources to stand up to corporations or what's left of the government (the military sure as hell isn't going anywhere). The dystopian future so many tried to warn us about is, like climate change, already here.