Your answers in the comments.
Landlords and real estate speculators are big. Housing is a huge proportion of a poorer person’s paycheck, and western countries don’t allow you to change that with strikes like they often do with wages. You can easily drive a population into poverty just by owning all the real estate and charging high prices, and even left-of-center governments are generally not willing to meaningfully deal with real estate speculation.
Hmm, very good observation.
But one can also add that these fascists will make it so that people cannot unite, that is, they will be divided into left and right, etc. for example.
I think of it this way.
In 1968, when GOP Nixon was elected, one Union salary could support a family of four with enough for a house, a car, and money to send the kids to college. A minimum wage job could support one person living alone. In those days, $1 million was considered a vast fortune.
By 1992, when GOP George Bush Sr. left office, ‘middle class’ was two incomes to keep the family going, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
