Middle Class Anger Building to Critical Mass
Posted: 12/11/2009 4:27:29 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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There is an anger building that I haven't heard since I listened to old timers talk about the Great Depression--and how the banks, Wall Street, big corporations and the politicians all conspired to destroy the working class in the 1930s.

I was born a few years after the Great Depression ended, but I still remember the look in the eyes of the farmers who lost their farms in the 1930s. They felt, and rightly so, that their own government had deliberately allowed the wealthy classes to declare war on the middle and lower classes. Their own government had conspired to take away everything they owned, leaving many of them wandering across the Midwest searching for shelter and something to eat. Meanwhile, their farms were gobbled up by banks and Wall Street speculators.

I believe we have reached that point again, and it is time to look for political leadership outside of the two major parties. Most of what we see in Washington, D.C, is political theater, an attempt to divide working class Americans so they throw stones at one another (liberals versus conservatives, union workers versus non-union workers, etc.). It's the old divide and conquer strategy, promoted by both the politicians and the mass media, and it has worked marvelously for those who benefit from a divided lower- and middle-class.

When average Americans stop pointing their fingers at others in their socio-economic class who are also struggling, and start pointing their fingers at the big corporations and their political lackeys in both parties, we might be able to turn this thing around. But first average Americans must overcome the superficial differences that keep them divided.

I believe the anger is building, and I think it is a good thing. It may very well be the one thing that forces average Americans to stop fighting among themselves and finally unite against a common enemy with an insatiable greed that seeks to destroy everything below itself in the economic food chain.

The poor and the middle class fought back in the 1930s, and they can do it again. The anger has created the foundation for a true populist revolt. It won't take much of a catalyst to get it started.

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Middle Class Anger Building to Critical Mass
Posted: 12/11/2009 4:27:29 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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I frankly believe its different this time Michael. Usually the folks I hear are saying that damn Bush/Republicans/RW or that damn bunch of Obama/Democrats/Socialists/LW.

Now they are saying we need to sink all the SOB's. They aren't happy with either side. They are angry in a way I've never seen before. But this is the first time they have felt that their own govermnment was against them.

Most no longer believe the media and they sure don't believe the politicians, Republican or Democrat. They do understand economics, real economics.

It is different this time. At least thats my opinion.

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Middle Class Anger Building to Critical Mass
Posted: 12/11/2009 4:27:29 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on

Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I'm tired of all this bullshit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam

They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale

I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

- Queensryche

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