The greatest con of all
Like every other disenfranchised group, the working class has essentially zero choice of representational leadership, as the machinery of governance, finance and the mainstream media are all controlled by the privileged, protected elites of the establishment.
This has lead to the success of movements like the Brexit in the UK and the election of Trump in the US. People in these countries have had enough. They have said collectively, "we've tried it your way and we have nothing left to lose, so let's try this."
The left's collapse of labor
To mask the collapse of the Left's economic defense of labor, the Left has substituted social justice movements for economic opportunities and security. This has succeeded brilliantly (so far), as tens of millions of self-described "progressives" now parrot the Great Con that "social justice" campaigns, on behalf of marginalized social groups, are now the defining feature of Progressive Social Democratic movements throughout the world.
(Since I don't trust the globalist media, my belief in this is borne-out from first-hand accounts that I've gathered from contacts in the UK, Italy, Brazil, and other countries as far-flung as Israel that bear this out.)
This diversionary sleight-of-hand embrace of economically neutered "social justice" campaigns masked the fact that social democratic parties everywhere have thrown labor into the churning propellers of globalization, open immigration and neo-liberal financial policies--all of which benefit mobile capital, which has engorged itself on the abandonment of labor by the Left.
Meanwhile, the fat-cats of the Left have engorged themselves on capital's largess in exchange for their treachery. In the USA, Bill and Hillary Clinton's $200 million in "earnings" come to mind, as do countless other examples of personal aggrandizement by self-proclaimed "defenders" of labor around the world.
But it isn't just the Globalist Left's fat-cats who have feathered their own nests while denigrating the Working Class with arrogantly contemptuous scorn: the entire protected, privileged "liberal" elitist Establishment has responded with a very illiberal outrage that their protected, privileged skims and scams might be endangered by an uprising of the loathed and ridiculed working class that they reckoned would remain safely cowed and conned.
If it weren’t for Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Mateo Salvini, Frauke Petry, and other nationalist movement leaders the Great Con would seem to be an unparalleled success! And if things continue to go against the Great Con, I (and others) believe that the powerful at the heart of the Great Con will not hesitate to collapse the global debt edifice and see the world burn in regional wars, rather than lose.
Are we wrong? Is this just another crazy conspiracy theory? Other first-hand evidence and observations would be appreciated.
