The increasing prevalence of a sense of social powerlessness is not only a psychological condition, but is rooted in the social and political structure of America itself. Nowhere do masses of ordinary people have so little control over their lives. Decisions over whether they work or not, and whether their families will have enough to eat, are made by powerful and faceless economic and political forces oblivious to the needs of the majority. Millions have been tossed into the abyss and official society hardly takes notice, while the financial kingpins are reveling in record amounts of wealth. The organizations that once mediated class relations in the United States—the trade unions and the civil rights groups—are run by corrupt and well-heeled functionaries who are part of the establishment and oppose any collective resistance to the daily humiliations on the job, layoffs or devastating wage and pension cuts. The result is that millions of workers are left to fend for themselves.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 01:45:01 +0000
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