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Poking the Dog

The GOP anti-union and anti-worker agenda is going to destroy their party, and if it keeps up it will destroy the capitalist system, which may not be so bad. If so, all will not be good for the way the money people are attacking us like a nice dog is in a pen, and people keep poking sticks through the pen at the dog. Eventually, the dog will become very mean and if given a chance, the dog will try to exact revenge. So, let’s us look at what the stick poking has been lately attacking unions, attacks on minimum wage; the jailing of people in prisons for profit; debtors prisons of low-wage people not being able to pay fines or post bond; plea bargaining away poor people’s rights to a good defense; and traffic fines and the loss of driver’s licenses, which the toilers cannot get to their low-wage jobs and be able to earn enough money to pay off their fines. Then there is the Black Lives Matter born out of the treatment by law enforcement, some of these officers are very bad and are getting away with killing civilians, most of whom are African Americans and the growing population of the homeless and mentally ill. Then there are the jobs that are sent overseas just for the greedy to make more profits, which have destroyed entire cities and towns, and they do this with no remorse. They have no loyalty to our country and our labor force. They just take advantage of the wage slaves and exploit our Commons and then they take their profits to a tax haven so as not to pay their fair share of taxes at home, but the dog in the pen is about to come out and he is looking to be more smarter and more meaner. So this could very well be the tipping point for the good of the proletarians thanks to the GOP anti-worker money not knowing when to stop poking the stick at the workers. There very well could be a person like Bernie Sanders just waiting to change this and start treating the people in the cage better. However, there are workers sharpening up their pitchforks and taking up sides. Which side are you on? I will go with the numbers which has the power of the people and will win over the money people for there are only 500 of them. A good documentary to watch is: Winter on Fire: The Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RibAQHeDia8
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