Howard Zinn on the Ludlow Massacre

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4. Yes because both parties had candidates who continually talked about the

Working class.

These days, during the Big And All Improtant Corporate Spokesperson Elections (Ooops, I meant Presidential Elections!) neither parties' candidates even mention the middle class more than twice or maybe three times.

And it was Howard Zinn who explains this, of course. His history book records how during the Haymarket strikes during the 1890's, the Repulican Party took out quarter page and half page ads in local Chciago newspapers defending the workers.

Has anyone here ever seen even a single Democratic Organization with ad space proclaiming the necessity for workers (and all of the 99%) for the promotion of the
"Occupy Movement" ? And these days, the Republican Party is more about hatred for those who' re "different" than any support for anyone with a job.