Mis-spent youth? I'm working class, was unemployed and life ruined during the 1980s. Not many folk though have the brains and guts to instead of self destructing, to go to the library (learning for free) or fishing (chilling out) instead, ya know.

Bryster is right, it is a vast "conspiracy", but not a "Dr Evil" one, lol no. folk with power push their agendas, they meet in clubs, back politicians who make them more money by policy changes, exchange deals over coke sniffing sessions in fnacy toilets, etc etc
so it's lots of litte dirty deeds, all piling up into one huge cluster**** :/

There are tendencies in some working class regions to "drag the other fellow down to stop him escaping the gutter". But there's also deliberate building up of prejudices and actions to keep them down, so they CANNOT rebel against their masters.

Nice little example:
In the UK, gun control was not brought in for public safety, it was for fear of anarchist or Communist "rebellion" (fact, go check the dates and the reasons)

The US has also suffered similar "top down control", the "Bonus Army" killings for example.

Other examples include the use of mass immigration/illegal immigrants.
These folk are brought in to keep wages at the bottom end artificially low, to make rich scuzzballs richer. They help break unions and prevent the lower class getting better wages. Capitalism demands at least 5% unemployment to keep wage costs artifically low.
The xenophobia and racism these immmigration waves cause also serve the cause of the Elite, as those on the bottom are encouraged to fight and hate,rather than co-operate (see tabloid newspapers and way they exploit immigration and incite racism)
Go back to the 1800s and see how Irish and Chinese were treated.

As I've said before, my great grandpa was in the trenches of WW1. they were drowning in mud and worse, but the Germans had good concrete bunkers. The UK's high command had used much of the concrete to build themselves a massive underground town to keep nice and snug.
And the funny thing was, the German bunkers had cement bags on their floors to keep dry, same bags were used at the UK HQ, and on the docks in Belgium (iirc) when grandpa was going home
Same company had supplied both sides....

You can go on and on, look at the drugs issue in particular, which is nowhere NEAR as simple as the nitwits have been telling us for decades
and no, I sure as heck do not like drugs, loathe the damn things as I've seen the results too often
but the legal ones are even worse in effect, but they are legal and others illegal, because it made some folk money or were bribed/influenced to make them illegal, not because of real safety issues etc.

And it suits folk to have the poor smacked out of their heads and killing each other.
Go dig and learn.

Power corrupts. Little bit here, little bit there...all add up to pure poison :/

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