There is no in between in this class warfare. You are either with the unions or against; you can’t be whatever’s convenient for your self-interest.
The exploitation of the proletarians by the oligarchies, who are anti-union GOP capitalists, will lead to the proletarians’ demise. Even though some companies are slow walking the increase in minimum wage hoping that the proletarians will let down their demands for the $15 to $18 an hour. Capitalists should look at Lincoln’s statement on May 19, 1856 when he said, “Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”
For the proletariats to understand their opponents better, I would suggest you read, The Prince, written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold onto power. The Haves with their arrogant opulence, its police, its courts—up to the Supreme Court, and its churches, claims of morality, law and order. These all secures the Haves’ status quo. But, the power of the Have Nots rests with their numbers.
It has been said that the Haves, living under the nightmare of possible threats to their possessions and who are always faced with the question of when do we sleep; while the nightmare of the Have Nots is where do we sleep and when do we eat? In between the Haves and the Have Nots is a new group of the Used to Haves, who have now lost what little they had.
This is sort of like a person who has lost their sight, but they remember what it was like to see and now cannot see and become bitter at the loss of their sight. In some cases, when this group finally figures out that it is not the government or president for their plight and realize that it is the Haves that that are to blame. When these people realize what happened to them they will grow the ranks of the Have Nots and Have Littles, and then we will be closer to the 99 percent. Right now there is still a gap between the 47 percent and the rest of us. The last group to join the Have Nots is the Have Littles or Want Mores.
This is what is left of the diminished Middle Class. They are torn between upholding the status quo to protect the little they still have, yet wanting change so they can get more. They become split personalities. They want a safe way where they can profit by change and not risk losing the little they are holding onto.
The proletariat wage slaves have got to think about how wars are won. You are either all in or all out, on one side or the other. There is no in between for you will be smashed by both sides if you are caught between the two forces coming together to battle. The winning side will be the proletariats because our numbers outnumber the oligarchies’.
In 2012 more than a quarter of all political contributions came from just 30,000 people who represented the 1 percent of the 1 percent, 90 percent who spent the most won. Today, we are an experiment in either a democracy, which started in 1787 or an oligarchy, which is winning. The nonunion people, like Trump and Musk, have most all the tools in their pockets to destroy our unions. They have money, they have the courts, they have law enforcement, they have the media, and 50 percent of workers that don’t know this don’t know the history of the working class people. This is the perfect storm to lose all the gains workers have made whether they’re union or not, even our Social Security and Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. So, now we will have to go way back to the late 1920s and ‘30s and dig up the old labor party books. One book, written in 1964, has the information, The Rebel Voices, an IWW Anthology by Joyce L. Kornbluh, educator, activist, and advocate. The history of our labor...
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