There is a muddled collection of thoughts in here. Some are wrong. Some of them are interesting. Elizabeth Warren: The middle class is what makes us who we are.... It’s what gives us an America that’s all bought in to the whole process. That what we do is not just about a handful of folks at the top who profit from it. We all profit from it. And that’s why we work, and that’s why we vote, and that’s why we accept the outcome of elections, and, that’s why we’re safe to walk our streets, because we have a middle class for which this ultimately works, this country. And every time we hollow that out. Every time we take away a little piece of that. We run the risk that some of what we understood as America, some of what we know as America, begins to die. That’s what scares me.
From the post: The sewing of hoplessness and disillusionment so thte people turn to defeatism or nihilism: It’s a method of social control as old as the hills, the ruling classes having deployed some of their finest thinkers to its engenderment and perpetuation. “Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such;” Arendt observes in Crises of the Republic, “no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable.”
From the thread: I’m in the south. I see and deal with a lot of the “right-wing” middle class... They do see the injustice, and many of them have just been born, bred, and raised to hold up this false left/right paradigm, and blindly accept the arbitrary dividing issues spouted by MSM dividers like Limbaugh or Beck. On the flip side, I’ve spent plenty of time in “liberal” urban areas, and all too often, it’s more of the same, just on the “other side” of the rainbow… Same MSM memes and dividing non-issues, to pit the left middle-class against the right. In the end, most of these folks don’t know what they’re talking about, and constantly present small-potatoes issues as the most important stuff... They don’t see their invisible bonds and that they are all linked together in a chain gang, overseen by lifetime politicians, militarists, false priests, and bankers.
MLK: I cannot close without stressing the urgent need for strong, courageous and intelligent leadership from the Negro community. We need leadership that is calm and yet positive. This is no day for the rabble-rouser, whether Negro or white. We must realize that we are grappling with such a complex problem there is no place for misguided emotionalism. We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate or malice. Let us never become bitter.
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