Jackpine Radical
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Sun Sep-25-11 11:35 AM
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Middle class, working class, working poor, unemployed, poor, homeless-- |
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Goddamit, everyone who isn't actually RICH is getting screwed in this country, and the last thing we need is to be fighting among ourselves over meaningless labels. I see manual laborers pissed off because teachers are "making too much." I see white collar office workers pissed off at the poor because they're "getting too much." (The myth of Welfare lives on long after Welfare is dead.) An even larger group is pissed off at both the teachers and the "welfare cheats."
Get your shit together, people. In any approximation to a rational world, we would see that we are all on the same side, but we permit the monsters on top of the system to divide us into hate-and-fear-infected little groups who look everywhere but at the true causes in search of scapegoats upon whom to blame their misery.
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Sun Sep-25-11 11:38 AM
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Sun Sep-25-11 11:57 AM
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Sun Sep-25-11 12:20 PM
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3. But placing the blame where it belongs would mean... |
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admitting that we would actually have to fight to make changes...
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Sun Sep-25-11 12:28 PM
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5. The sooner that happens the better. nt |
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Sun Sep-25-11 12:21 PM
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4. excellent. and agree. nt |
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Sun Sep-25-11 12:53 PM
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6. To be honest, much of our society is divisive. Political websites are. Political parties are. |
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Sports teams are. Car brands are. Cereal, soap, the city in which you live, Fedex vs UPS, baseball or car racing, all these things spark division.
The only ones that don't play the game are those at the very top.
As you say, unless you can survive and live well wherever you wish, we're in the same boat. Yet just look at a conservative site and at this site. They are absolute mirror images. We think they're nuts. They think we're nuts. If, in fact, one of us were to meet one of them, chances are there is far more in common than not.
And yet, we find ourselves pitted against each other.
Who benefits from that? Surely not them or us.
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Sun Sep-25-11 12:57 PM
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8. one of us were to meet one of them, chances are there is far more in common than not |
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which i find continually living in all red.
we have to struggle to find differences.
a hoot. and i agree with you whole post
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Sun Sep-25-11 12:55 PM
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Sun Sep-25-11 01:04 PM
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9. some think that they will be a part of that elite club and therefore defend it |
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or they are instructed to think that way via msm..and so they do
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Sun Sep-25-11 01:24 PM
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11. I totally agree. We need to get it together and stop blaming each other. |
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Sun Sep-25-11 01:32 PM
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yes... strength in numbers, power in knowledge...
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Sun Sep-25-11 04:16 PM
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13. If this is in reference to my thread... just to be clear... |
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I wasn't BLAMING anyone. I was making it clear that I'm NOT "middle class". In fact, most people who think they ARE, are not.
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Sun Sep-25-11 06:12 PM
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14. I may have been inspired by your thread, but thought this was |
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far enough OT to stand by itself.
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Sun Sep-25-11 07:18 PM
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15. Actually, most of the rich are getting screwed too. Only the super-rich... |
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Mon Sep-26-11 07:08 AM
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16. Kicked and recommended! nt |
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