re: #150 Obdicut

I’m really wondering how much worse it has to get. 30 years of stagnant wages, companies blatantly shutting down jobs here and shipping them overseas, workers dying on the job because corporations want a quick buck. If anyone isn’t pissed already, I have trouble understanding what would make them pissed.

I mean, we’ve all seen the people holding up signs about how they work three jobs and can barely afford health insurance but they’re not complaining. Why aren’t they? Is that the life that they want?

No, but they have pride.

The ‘53%’ signs make me want to curse and weep, and occasionally laugh hysterically, but I also understand where they originate from, and it’s a deep place in American society. It’s very easy to dismiss these folks as stupid, rwnj pawns, what have you, but it’s deeper and more complicated than that. If we’re going to get out of the corner we’ve painted ourselves into as a society, in terms of earning and social support, and health care and whole bunch of other things, these folks are going to have to feel that they can support that, without losing their concept of themselves as workers and achievers. We need a different kind of discussion about this, one I’m not sure OWS is providing for a wide-enough strata of society.

Yes, I’m concerned. Chalk it up to my apparent enthusiastic support of police brutality.