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Originally Posted by host
Your post is idealistic, impractical, uninformed, and describes a very unlikely
outcome for the vast majority of Americans, going forward, given current
tax policy and the velocity of the concentration of wealth. The wealthiest
few have never held more economic and political power than they do now,
and seldom in our country's history have they been less pressured to act
for the common good.
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My, what a nice string of ad hominem attacks you have there. Let me explain a bit about my situation. I came from a lower class family. My father left when I was three. He was supposed to pay child support, but didn't. We still managed to make it. I had no trust fund, my parents couldn't pay for my college, yadda yadda yadda. I worked a string of menial jobs, and at one point was literally homeless. Eventually, I decided that being poor sucked, so I worked, and with the aid of various financial aid programs out there (and working), put myself through college AND Law School. Yeah, I have a shitload of student loans (mostly from Law School, there ain't no Pell Grants available for postgraduate work) but I did what I needed to do. And I don't consider myself to be the "sharpest tool in the shed", either. If I can do it, others can do it too. It beats the shit out of trading your foodstamps for crack.
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Indeed, you, and many others discount their leverage
and advantage in maintaining current wealth redistribution trends. You help
to hasten the day when, in lieu of any hope of reversing current trends
via peaceful, political and union organizing and civil protest, violent revolution
against the ruling class will be viewed as an accepted, and inevitable remedy.
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And we, in the "ruling class" (I guess I qualify for that now) will be ready, with our "Red State Dupes" (I personally think that the Democrats should be the red, and the Republicans the blue, but I guess it's like the "bolsheviks" and "menshaviks"...just another effort by the media to mislabel people) will crush "Tha Revolution!" as they man their puny barricades, mouthing discredited communist propaganda and wearing Nike shirts featuring images of Che.
I guess it's a good thing that I own machineguns!
