For over a hundred years after the publication of Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto, America's oligarchs viewed communism as their greatest existential threat.
That was mostly bullshit from the get-go. From the very beginnings of the Bolshevik revolution, Yankee carpet-baggers like Armand Hammer were doing brisk capitalisky business with the Bolshies. In fact, it was the commies more than the oil fields that eventually catapulted Hammer into the ranks of the billionaires.
Be that as it may, the threat of communism was a useful construct, at least until the collapse of the USSR in '91. Since then, the billionaire class, (which, oddly enough, has a very robust membership in formerly "communist" countries) has been a little hard up for a convenient catch-all excuse for their abuse and exploitation of the rest of us.
We used to go along with the bullshit, because after all, the only option was totalitarian communism. Now that's been debunked, you'd think the abuse and exploitation might be called out.
No such luck. Although communism is no longer a threat, there is a new, even more odious threat; right-wing extremism.
You know. White supremacists who swear allegiance to Enrique Tarrio, the Afro-Cuban "chairman of the board" of the (mostly fictional) Proud Boys. And of course, don't forget the Grand Wizard of the KKK (digital edition), Donny J.
Yup, the new nazis are targeting America's democracy. And its capitalism too, because you can't have the one without the other. And it's just a matter of time till it is revealed that the GameStop bros and the Bernie bros were secret Trumpkins all along, and we certainly need to keep them away from the internet, where they spread dangerous conspiracy theories, like America is rigged in favor of the rich, because that's how the rich rigged it, and other such subversive terrorist right-wing crackpot lunatic theories.
And now, the GameStop bros have upped the ante in the domestic terror sweep-stakes. They have launched an unprovoked terror attack on the very beating heart of everything America stands for.
Billionaires.
