Why The Republican’s Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy—Setting Working Class Against the Poor—Is Backf
Why The Republicans Old Divide-and-Conquer StrategySetting Working Class Against the PoorIs Backfiring
by Robert Reich at Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/09-12
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It was a cunning strategy designed to split the broad Democratic coalition that had supported the New Deal and Great Society, by using the cleavers of racial prejudice and economic anxiety. It also conveniently fueled resentment of government taxes and spending.
The strategy also served to distract attention from the real cause of the working classs shrinking paychecks corporations that were busily busting unions, outsourcing abroad, and replacing jobs with automated equipment and, subsequently, computers and robotics.
But the divide-and-conquer strategy is no longer convincing because the dividing line between poor and middle class has all but disappeared. They are fast becoming us.
Poverty is now a condition that almost anyone can fall into. In the first two years of this recovery, according to new report from Census Bureau, about one in three Americans dropped into poverty for at least two to six months.
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