Reply #57: People are finally waking up to the ruin of 30 years of right wing distortion and robbery.

[seafan]

The great value in this piece is its clarity in encapsulating the truth of what has happened to us.


It must be passed to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.



Right Wing Aims for the Kill

By Jim Van Der Pol
--a writer and farmer near Kerkhoven, Minnesota

It is truly breathtaking to realize that we have gone from seeing our economy destroyed in 2008, the result of several decades of corruption and degeneracy on the part of hedge fund managers and Wall Street tycoons to today’s situation in Wisconsin where public teacher, police and nurse unions are held to be responsible for all our financial problems. That is less than three years time. Did someone whack us all in the head with a 2X4 to make us forget? This latest political comedy is really part of a larger whole which we should start naming for what it is: “the right wing war against the working class.” And for at least 30 years, they have been winning it.

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For a short time after World War II the working class was able to exert enough political influence to encourage an economy that enabled a high school graduate to earn sufficient money to provide for a family’s needs and some of its wants. I see nothing wrong with that and a great deal to admire. So how did we get to here from there? How did we get from that possibility of a good and respectable and hopeful middle class life for a slaughterhouse worker in the 1970s to today’s reality where the working class comes in for a steady stream of vilification in that vicious millionaire’s club we call the Senate, being called lazy, drug addicted and drunken when the unemployment benefits run out? Look behind us folks. The tracks are not hard to see.

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From The Progressive Populist, April 1, 2011