Student Loan Crisis Fuels Military Recruitment Boom
They make it so expensive to have an education and a life in America, that they have to join the miltary and go kill people in otehr places to have a chance at some decent life. How corrupt and insane is that? But it makes sense given the logic of the US empire, argues Jimmy Dore.
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Like vampires fearing light, capitalists elites have always been afraid of the socialist demonstration effect. A huge and constant effort is aimed at “showing” that socialism doesn’t work, that it is tyrannical, inefficient, etc. Thus sabotaging and killing socialism wherever it may arise —Russia, China, Korea, Venezuela, Chile—by any means necessary, no matter how brutal and dishonest, is therefore standing policy. But socialist solutions work. And Medicare for All would show everyone in America, the key capitalist fortress, that many of our nightmares can easily vanish under socialism. For the capitalists and their hanger-ons it would be a Pandora’s box.—P. Greanville
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