This was a good one, it needs more attention. Americans across the divide didn’t have to admit they were wrong, all they had to do was admit that they had all been tricked by the same forces. It’s like Futurism, but maybe Near-Futurism? This was Day ELEVEN of Flash Fiction February and the forces of evil have been vanquished… for now.
2029: New World Order Loses Bid for Earth.
Americans across the divide didn’t have to admit they were wrong, all they had to do was admit that they had all been tricked by the same forces.
So many towns town hadn’t been economically active for a couple of decades. It was a typical situation where after a highway was built, the business climate changed from being locally oriented toward the people, and to having a range of interesting enterprises and shops that draw outsiders in, to something that resembled an outdoor mall lining the highways, instead. Then, once the big box store consolidation happened, that was the death knell.
Now, America is a shell of what it was, but it’s also a blank page, and there’s a lot of potential. Main Street has been maintained fairly well. There are some empty spaces, which makes it interesting, but the old hardware stores gave way to the big box store; the only grocery stores is a little health food shops. There is a lot of work to do. The fact that the Farmer’s Market is the biggest business day in town is the market proof that practical economics is making a comeback.
Corporate subsidies are being phased out at 15% per quarter. That will put more money into the pockets of the people who are rebuilding after this 4+ decade-long, low-intensity assault on the people and market. While many people think those policies aren’t radical enough, they are glad people finally see what it is that has destroyed the American free-enterprise system, and they are glad things are moving in the right direction, even if only inching slowly toward sanity.
The ideas about purposely keeping people poor in order to maintain the wealth of those who’ve earned nothing is finally seen as the economic retardation that it is. The mythology of “twice as good for half as much” is an insult to intelligence that is no longer tolerated. The people had lived through that fantastical nonsense, and they were not going to go through it again.
Being paid for work was akin to entitlements in the minds of the brainwashed tardlies living in their collectivist, gated, paranoid communities. They were finally taken by the wrist and set in the corner, while the intelligent people went to work rebuilding. That time when no one wanted to pay anyone for their work was over. If you weren’t willing to be a part of an honest economy, you were sent packing. There were going to be no free rides for subsidized, over-financed scammers.
For years, the corporate leviathan went on and on about the dangers of socialism and communism. Anyone who criticized the austerity politics of Reagan and Friedman was labeled anti-business and anti-American. During that entire period and forward, those very same forces were commandeering the government and the economy, creating a controlled system where those who did the least built masses of fiat currency, and those who did the most were called lazy and were accused of wanting handouts if they expected to be paid enough for their work to have any kind of life.
The corporatists used a system of false patriotic propaganda to lull, and to frighten their followers into obedience while they built a system to control them right under their noses. This wasn’t a thing where everyone was saying, “I told you so," because everyone had been hoodwinked in one way or another, and most people were able to admit that.
The realization by The People that the same forces had set them against one another is what made the reforms work. This realization enabled them to see past their differences and unite. Now the people can transcend their disparities, as they had been manipulated and cultivated by the very influencers of the political class and the brazen, contemptuous media voices they financed to constantly lie.
The End.
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Nice work making it all the way down here. lol
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