re: #734 wozzablog

My sister did her dissertation on the Union movement and a couple of other elements of Deep South history.

Lesson one from all of history - the boss class will try to keep people divided.
They will try to use Race, Religion, Caste, politics - anything but economic circumstance.

And yet, they get violent over all of it.

We were talking earlier in the thread about the prospect of violence in the coming few years. It’s always possible. But here, rwnj get violent over economic issues and even more violent over racial ones.

In my mind, the two are inseparable. Violent, gun clutching white con bigots get far more violent when they are being told some black person is coming for their stuff.

Otoh, look at the tea party - when class hustlers like Dick Armey and the Koch Brothers come for their stuff, they bend over and pass back the lube.