Chapter 2062: Request for Monthly Votes! ! ! !

The melee caused Chicago to really become a war zone.

It also triggered conflicts between blacks and whites... To be honest, the American anti-dragon-slaying tactics are indeed conducive to governance, but they are not conducive to integration and unity!

They subdivide the population into countless groups step by step according to their differences, and even artificially create conflicts between these groups. This will save the cost of governance in a sense... After all, the cost of appeasing an entire class is completely different from the cost of appeasing a part of the population.

The ruling class in the United States is only that one percent! They occupy 40% of social wealth!

And this one percent rules the remaining 99%!

The three-way structure of American social classes: slave owners, free men and slaves.

Although people have a consensus on civilized society and believe that slavery no longer exists in modern times. In fact, slavery has never left human society, but in different forms of civilization, the manifestation of slavery will also be different. In the agricultural civilization period, the form of slaves was serfs. In the industrial civilization period, the form of slaves was labor slaves. In the post-industrial civilization period, the form of slaves was voting slaves.

American democracy is the control and manipulation of the vast majority of the population in a post-industrial civilization society by using the judiciary, the media, the state apparatus, ideological shaping, and mental control. This is a new and upgraded form of slavery. Most people look at the United States just like standing on the street and looking up at a skyscraper. They only see its beautiful and neat curtain wall, so majestic and tall, but know nothing about the internal structure of the skyscraper. To truly understand the United States, you have to go inside it and analyze the power of American society, so that you can see through the essence of the United States, rather than just seeing the curtain wall appearance that it deliberately presents to people. Why can a skyscraper stand without collapsing? Because it is supported by the internal structure, not the curtain wall. Why does a country rise, why has it not perished yet, and when will it perish in the future? What supports all this? It is the power structure. The power structure of a country is as important to the country as the structural support inside a skyscraper. The ideology of democracy is the curtain wall appearance of the American skyscraper. In fact, what supports the operation of American society is another set of internal structures: power. It is naive to analyze politics only by ideology, just like a student of architecture who has only learned the knowledge of facade decoration and knows nothing about engineering and mechanics, and then designs skyscrapers.

Many people who study American politics preconceivedly start from ideology and believe that the power structure and system of American society is a kind of pluralistic determinism. In layman's terms, pluralists believe that the power structure of American society is discrete, decentralized, and de-classed. All Americans, like Brownian motion, collide and compete with each other, and finally form the national policy and national will of the United States, which ultimately reflects the interests and demands of all Americans. The United States seen by pluralists is like tourists on the street who only understand skyscrapers through the curtain wall of the facade. What they do is just an analysis of the phenomenon of American society, not an analysis of the power structure. Therefore, their cognition, conclusions, and analysis methods are all quite superficial and wrong.

From the 18th century to the present, the proportion of the total social wealth held by the richest 1% of the population in American society is a relatively stable value: about 40%. This ratio has been fluctuating around 40%. At the lowest period, it will be around 35%. At the highest period, which is now, it may have exceeded 50%. The 1% upper elite class is ruling the United States. This is the first basic fact about the power analysis of American society.

So, who are the richest 1% of people? In this class, 95% are white men, 3%-4% are blacks, and about 1% are Asians. If we look at gender, the proportion of women is only about 5%. From the structure of assets held by this class, they are almost all interlocking directors of the top 1% of large companies in the United States. This class is intertwined to form a corporate community. The big corporate community is the power heart of the top class and big capitalists in the United States to rule and control the American economy and society. In terms of power, class, ethnicity, enterprise, and wealth, the 1% of American society overlaps amazingly. This is the second basic fact about the power analysis of American society. This elite community is the slave-owning class in American society. The top 20% of the wealth distribution in the United States account for more than 85% of the total wealth of the society. The current data shows that it has exceeded 90%. This class, excluding the top slave owners, constitutes the free class of American society. They are property owners, but they have not yet entered the slave owner class.

The wealth of the remaining 80% of low-income people may now account for less than 10% of the total wealth of American society. They belong to the slave class of American society. This is the panoramic view of American society: 3 million slave owners, 60 million free people, and 250 million slaves, which is the garbage population in the eyes of slave owners. If you have a deep understanding of American society, you will be very confused by the general ignorance of Americans. They are the most developed country in the world. It stands to reason that Americans should be very smart. Why do many of their citizens not even have the most basic common sense? For example, more than 100 million Americans sincerely believe that virgins can become pregnant and that angels really exist. The United States is the country with the largest population in the world that believes in the existence of angels. In fact, most Americans are not smart. The locomotive that really drives the American empire train forward is only the smartest 3 million people. Three million elites dragging more than 200 million garbage people forward. This is the third basic fact in the analysis of power in American society.

There were also divisions among the slave-owning class. The core of this group are British and German. The reason why a small number of black people can enter the highest class is because they serve as general managers for this core layer to manage the huge black population. The slave plantation society in the South has always had this tradition of having black superintendents manage black slaves. Spreading out from this core, the Irish and Italians are the periphery. Why was Kendini assassinated? Because the outsider cannot be the main wife. If you want to join the core club of slave owners, on the one hand, the Irish are politically incorrect because they are Celtic and not Germanic. On the other hand, the Irish believed in Catholicism, while the English Puritans in the United States were sworn enemies of Catholicism. Third, the British discriminate against the Irish even more than they discriminate against blacks. Although they are white, they are dirty, crazy and violent. They were all former serfs of the British. How could a serf become a slave owner?

Of course, this differentiation is not entirely beneficial.

There are downsides too.

That is, there is no consensus that everyone can accept... It is natural that the United States is strong. After all, as long as we stay in this large group, everyone will have a cake to share. It is just a matter of how much.

But with the fall of American hegemony and the cake getting smaller and smaller, this differentiation has become fatal.

When the benefits sought from the outside become less and less, then the inside will naturally begin to involuntarily begin!

This is the objective law of the development of things.

But the problem is that the hegemony of the United States fell suddenly. It was not a long-term process, but a sudden decline in the strength of the United States due to major events one after another. It was even more sudden than the stock market.

No one is prepared for this... In fact, if someone suddenly travels back a few years ago and tells the Americans that they will lose their dominance in a few years, everyone will think he is a madman... After all, it comes too suddenly. .

In fact, there were signs of the decline of the United States' hegemony before, but they were only signs. According to general rules, it will take at least several decades for the United States to truly fall from its hegemonic position.

But reality is always more outrageous than fiction.

Because fiction requires logic, reality does not.

American hegemony is gone.

No one was prepared for this, so this involution caught everyone off guard.

Many people don't even have the most basic psychological construction.

So the contradiction becomes even greater.

Just a few years ago, although everyone was at the bottom, in many cases, life was still decent. Even if you didn't work, you had subsidies and benefits.

But as the situation changes, the United States itself has to drastically cut benefits.

Although policies to stimulate the economy have also been implemented simultaneously, and many more jobs have been created in the United States, the problem is that many people's own concepts have not changed. Such as black people.

There are roughly two living conditions for black people at the bottom. One is poor people who work hard but have no education and can only do low-level manual labor (dishwasher, waiter, salesperson...), and their annual income is usually less than 20,000 US dollars. The other type is the poor who are willing to degenerate and live purely on government subsidies. Most of them have never worked in their lives. They have lived in government housing with their parents since they were young. When they grow up, they apply for disability identification (mental illness, depression, etc.) and deceive government subsidies. Food and housing depend on government housing and food coupons.

Many people think that the United States is not a welfare state... This is actually a wrong idea. The United States has welfare, but it is far inferior to the welfare of those Nordic countries. But it is not bad, first of all, in terms of housing. Let's take a look at a set of data from 2005: 46% of poor households own property, and a typical poor household has an average of three bedrooms, a garage, and a balcony. Yes, this data from more than ten years ago shows that nearly half of the poor in the United States have their own houses. It doesn't matter if you don't have a house, the government will provide housing subsidies. According to regulations, the rent of the poor cannot exceed 30% of their income. That is to say, if your salary is $1,000/month, then you need to pay $300 for the house, and the remaining 70% is paid by the government. If your income is 0, you can live in some places for free. This part of the government-subsidized houses is called government housing. Many of them are not only in the best locations in the city, but also relatively large, with free water, electricity, heating, and washing machines and dryers. But not everyone can live in government housing, because there are too many people who want to live there, so they have to wait in line. As for where to live during the waiting period, you can only solve it yourself. If you really need a place, you can just live in a relief station.

Then look at the living conditions. Let's look at a set of public data from 2005: 7% of poor households have a color TV, 50% have two or more color TVs; 76% have air conditioning; 75% have a car; 30% have two cars; 73% have a microwave; 62% have cable TV; 33% have a dishwasher. So, overall, the lives of the poor in the United States are not as poor as we traditionally think. The United States has a "nutrition supplement program" that allows you to apply for subsidies as long as your annual income is less than 130% of the poverty line. Usually a family of four can get up to $649 per month. If there are children in the family who go to school, breakfast and lunch in primary and secondary schools are free for poor children. In addition, there is a place called Foodbank, which provides free bread, milk, meat, fruits, vegetables, desserts... The poor can get them for free.

So this has created a large number of lazy people... There is no way, many black people can live without working (but they can't live too well, just muddle through).

But with the changes in the economic situation, many benefits have been cut!

Those who work hard are fine, after all, there is no shortage of jobs, even if they go to the factory to screw in screws.

But the problem is that many of them are not willing to work, and those low-level jobs are very tiring! Expecting these people to work... is too much!

They don't work, and their benefits are cut.

You can imagine how much resentment they will have.

So after the outbreak of the black-white war in Chicago, similar conflicts occurred all over the United States.

But unfortunately, at this moment, all the superheroes disappeared.

There is no way, superheroes can't intervene in such things. After all, it has risen to racial conflicts. Superheroes will be unlucky whether they stand on the side or not, so it's better to just disappear.

For a while, the United States actually felt like it was in a precarious situation.

Take a pill!

Of course, this is actually just a small problem for the ruling class... Really, just a small problem. Because there is no elite class among these people!

The black elites have long been bought off. The previous surging Black Lives Matter movement itself had a large number of black elites participating, but this time, there are only low-level blacks. They have no organization, no program, and even less goals.

There were only a few slogans, and most people just took advantage of the chaos to smash, loot and rob... a pure mob.

This is also what I said above, there is no unified consensus at the bottom, they are divided among themselves, and they don't point their spearheads at their real enemies at all. So the harm caused is just like that.

If it were in the past, everyone would probably still laugh at these black people.