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Posted at Hartmann Report on Jan. 2, 2025

What the Science of Predators and Prey Tells Us About the Morbidly Rich and Working People

Nature and economics share some fascinating patterns, one of which explains why Donald Trump is about to become president and how the morbidly rich have appropriated over $50 trillion from working class people since the 1980s. Scientists use something called the Lorka-Volterra equations to explain how predators and prey interact in the wild. These equations show us that animal populations rise and fall in predictable cycles — when there are lots of rabbits, fox populations grow, but as foxes eat more rabbits, the rabbit population shrinks, which then causes fox numbers to drop, allowing rabbits to multiply again. Incredibly, this back-and-forth pattern mirrors what happens between the wealthy and working classes in our economy and political systems over the past 100 years.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Jan. 2, 2025

Why Do Republicans Hate a Prosperous Middle Class?

The real reason GOP policies target wages, unions, and public education. Donald Trump, a billionaire himself, will soon become president with a cabinet worth at least a third of a trillion dollars. Add Musk, and you're over $800 billion in wealth held by this small handful of people. By comparison, the entire combined net worth of Joe Biden's cabinet is $118, million. That's about one-tenth of one billion dollars: $0.118 billion. All of them, combined, including Biden himself, are worth what some of these billionaires make in a day. To become a billionaire, generally you have to have a singular priority. One that is reflected in your work, your life, and your politics. And that priority, contrary to the poor MAGA suckers Trump and his billionaire buddies convinced to vote for him in November, has nothing to do with average Americans or the middle class. If anything, it has to do with sucking as much wealth out of the middle class as possible to make yourself a billionaire. Just since Reagan's tax cuts, they've taken $50 trillion from us.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Jan. 1, 2025

How the GOP Exploits the Migrant Crisis

To get an honest immigration system, we must reverse Reaganism... Trump says he's going to imprison and then deport millions of brown-skinned immigrants. He's going after the wrong people. It seems that ever time a Republican goes on one of the national political TV shows, they make sure to get in the lie that "Joe Biden opened the southern border wide open," or toss in a reference to "Biden's open borders." It is, of course, a vicious lie — but one that's almost never called out by the hosts because it's peripheral or tangential to the topic being discussed. And, as is so often the case, this all started with Reagan (more on that in a moment). While it's true that two factors have driven a lot of migration over the past few decades (climate change wiping out farmland, and political dysfunction and gangs caused by the Reagan administration devastating the governments of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) the latest main driver of would-be immigrants and refugees is the Republican Party itself.

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