The loyalty of the working class

[nadinbrzezinski]

this country has seen the rise of the most loyal, and least class conscious working class ever. You know the one that was happy to get some of the pie, as long as they were able to live a "middle Class lifestyle." In exchange for this this class lost it's sense of class, and rejected any radicals, whether these were the commies under every rock, or the anarcho radicalists. They were soundly rejected, and we had a middle class who pretty much lived their live, and moved on without too much problem.

So what has happened over the last almost now three weeks, is that this middle class has finally woken up and started to realize... we worked with you, but you want all. FUCK THAT!

So in the last three weeks Gov Walker has done far more about waking up that sense of CLASS than any mamby pamby intellectual has in the last fifty years. (Oh and I include myself among them mamby pamby intellectuals by the way)

They know not what they do, for what they have woken will make them radicals not so ugly any longer.

So this is something that as a historian will be interesting to watch, as Americans shake themselves awake and realize... you know they want all, and we are the majority. It is now a class war... as it is being joined.

[LiberalLoner]

1. K&R I so hope you are right. I hope this becomes a huge fight and I hope we are

successful in the end. I hope we win so big and the vile right-wing philosophy is pushed back so far, that it will take a century or more to ever resurface, if it ever does resurface at all.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. The spark been lit

not saying it will be short... in fact, it will be a long struggle, but that thing is no longer just a little smoke.

[MedleyMisty]

3. We may surprise you

I am working class.

My brother is working 12 hour shifts. My mother, at the age of 61, is being worked to death sweatshop style.

They both heartily approved of the Egyptian revolution. And they both used the same line. "People get tired of being poor." My mother said "That's what it takes, if you want real change - everybody working together."

I would remind those who talk so much about the middle class that if you want real change, you may have to get your hands dirty and work with us icky lowlife working class people.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. that is the other thing

the middle class was always an illusion. We really are working class. And that is starting to emerge, Why I said the least conscious working class ever. What you see in OH and in WI is the beginning of that consciousness rising.

[LiberalLoner]

5. Yup. I have always known I was working class. Never believed in that "middle class" B.S. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I grew up upper middle class in another country

but I married a Navy Man who is now a union man. We are solidly working class. I was also conscious of this since at least in Mexico there IS a class consciousness. Strikes happened all the time, so yes, I was always conscious of the difference. It also helps two of my instructors were one a commie (marxist) and the other a social democrat... yes there is a difference. I am a social democrat.