I think the implication was that they only did that after so much of the working class was hollowed out that it would have been revolution earlier if they didn't.
Like, ffs the literal Trump administration sent checks and put a moratorium on evictions. They really really did not want to do that.
They knew if they didn't, they would turn millions of previously secure, fully employed "middle class" people instantly into a literal army, as in an army with guns. Faced with mass government-mandated homelessness, people would have actually just shot cops and refused to leave. The country would be gone by now.
I think the implication was that they only did that after so much of the working class was hollowed out that it would have been revolution earlier if they didn't.
Like, ffs the literal Trump administration sent checks and put a moratorium on evictions. They really really did not want to do that.
They knew if they didn't, they would turn millions of previously secure, fully employed "middle class" people instantly into a literal army, as in an army with guns. Faced with mass government-mandated homelessness, people would have actually just shot cops and refused to leave. The country would be gone by now.