It’s an old joke, but it bears repeating: An Oxford professor meets a former student on the street. He asks what he’s been up to lately. The student tells him he’s working on a doctoral thesis about the survival of the class system in the United States. The professor expresses surprise. “I didn’t think there was a class system in the United States,” he says. “Nobody does,” the student replies. “That’s how it survives.” The widening chasm between the middle-class and the rich, coupled with the on-going, systematic assault on organized labor, isn’t simply the result of bad luck. It’s evidence of a well-oiled, coordinated drive, led by Wall Street and its minions, to separate and isolate the working class from the rest of the economy. It’s class warfare, plain and simple, and it’s being fought the way our “real” wars are fought—heavily muscled and sanitized. Because there’s no scary opposition (not the Congress, the Church, organized labor, or citizen groups), the timing couldn’t be more perfect. The rich and powerful are seizing all they can get, and they’re doing it boldly, audaciously, in broad daylight, in front of our eyes, making it reminiscent of those frontier land-grabs where they took everything they wanted, greedily and aggressively, knowing no one could stop them
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:26:41 +0000
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