Conspiracies: It didn't start with the Maga types

 So I was watching Neil Oliver who has a podcast on British history, and today's lecture was on the Irish potato famine.

the British elite saw the Irish as inferior, and Oliver notes that these elites felt that it didnt matter if they starved, He also notes that food was available but was exported from Ireland. He doesn't mention the economics behind this: this grain was not just to let landlords to make a profit, but was used to cheaply feed the factory workers in England who otherwise mightinsist on higher wages He also leaves out the ideas of Malthus, that giving help to poor people only encourages them to have children and so will make the problem worse, and that starvation was mother nature's way of correcting this overpopulation by inferior races.

this is not an isolated incident, and it has geopolitical implications in today's world: 

For example, as Oliver notes, the Irish civil war and IRA resulted from this action. 

and of course, one reason behind the Ukrainian Russian war is the Holdomor, when Stalin killed the Ukainians to get rid of uncooperative peasants. 

Starvation by imposing sanctions as against Iraq or to punish rebels, as in Biafira, Dafur or Ethiopia, or during wars by blocking grain imports as was done during WWI is rarely seen as a man made tragedy. 

war allows such man made famines to be overlooked: and even the much revered Churchill made the policies behind the man made Bengal famine caused by exporting grain to feed British soldiers, so food became too expensive for locals to buy.

In times of so called peace, one can see starvation from bad policies because no one dared to point out what was going on: the massive starvation from Mao's Great Leap forward happened because Mao's bad agricultural policy led to crop failure, and the Chinese party bureaucrats preferred to obey the rules than to admit it caused massive starvation. 

If imposing radical policies that destroy food because of a political agenda to make utopia sounds familiar, maybe it is sort of like the globalist policies to stop meat, cut rice production, and get rid of fossil fuel needed to farm: because all of these things produce greenhouse gasses, and are forbidden under the elite policies aiming to save the planet (and if they kill a couple million poor people, well it's not their fault...they will simply blame the deaths on global warming).

Well, anyway, I have youtube on automatic flow to the next video, and voila:

Youtube automatically followed Oliver's videos with this video:

Yes, that's Bill Moyers in 2014.... when it was liberals who warned us about big business/government and bureaucratic tyranny that would limit our freedom. 

and a lot of what they are saying is echoing what Trump was saying about the deep state.

The irony is that Trump is portrayed as a rabid right winger. He is not. But neither is he a Country club republican: he is a Kennedy Democrat. And his hands-on working in NYC with unions workers etc. mean he knows the blue collar/union and working class Yanks who usually vote Democratic and who are now his biggest backers.

To understand working class Amerian culture, you have to realize that many of us remember why we or our ancestors moved to America: some to escape war or starvation, others to escape tyranny, or get religious freedom, but still others because the country of origin is an oligarchy where ordinary folk can't get ahead and become prosperous.

that is why so many of the immigrants, both legal and without proper papers, who moved to America because they are uncooperative might not become willing low wage slaves for the country club elites but add their voices to those who the elite call deplorables.