The gross and horrible and unacceptable inequality and predominantly hopeless party-political situation everywhere
The entire «cost of living crisis» is merely an extension of what has happened for a long time: Us being robbed blind by businesses, by capitalists getting wealthy at our expense.
The wealthy and well-off have long since waged relentless class war against the poor and worse off. This has entered a new level of cruelty lately, descending into mass killing of the wage slaves and others with low income. ENOUGH
Yes, it is do or die (both fast and slow death). That has been the stark reality for quite some time, but it has now reached a point where not even the dullest sheep can deny it.
When there are steep rises in the cost of electricity and food and the mere act of living, that is no coincidence. When a business and individuals amass fortunes, they do that because they are allowed to demand grossly inflated prices for their products and pay their workers and employees beyond lousy wages. This is certainly the case in the so-called western world. If Europe, United States and similar were ever headed to some approximate justice and equality, that time has long passed.
Similar processes are at work when it comes to the meager efforts against environmental destruction and climate change. Whatever costs there are is unloaded on workers and the poor, those with the smallest ability to pay it, while the already wealthy keep developing new and inventive methods of increasing their wealth further. This is clearly a deliberate tactics by the establishment, making necessary changes unpopular, assuring that almost nothing gets done. Modern windmills, with the wealthy stealing the wealth it generates as usual, are built in areas of vulnerable and pristine nature, making it unpopular even among environmentalists. Genius.
Take almost any country, and the situation turns increasingly hopeless. The two dominant parties or group of parties in a given country are practically the same, with the same policies, or at least with no significant differences between them. There is no true parliamentarian opposition. The opposition that might exist outside establishment society few and far between, and effectively kept out of public discourse. Those speaking out against the US/NATO empire suffer the same fate. No true opposition is allowed anymore. Protesters are beaten even harder by the police and given even higher fines and longer prison sentences. Freedom of speech is a gross and undeniable illusion.
If anyone believes, even in passing that we can transform human society the way it desperately needs to be transformed by working within the current power structure, they should leave behind that beyond sick and unhelpful delusion yesterday.
«The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum…»
Noam Chomsky – The Common Good