What If the Middle & Working Classes United to Bring Down Capitalism?

by max blunt
Divide and conquer.

That's what they are afraid of; common cause between the lower and middle classes against the upper. It's always been this way. But, in America, the middle class finds itself in its weakest position since the Great Depression.

As a matter of fact, our economy, pinned as it has been on the Petro-dollar, is one or two Bush follies away from a major "correction."

The middle class has been so screwed over the last generation or so by the "market" that the elite can no longer ignore the numbers and the stress suffered by worker bees.

The November election was a shot heard around the world. Though Iraq was a huge issue, so was America's sense that the social contract with the government, the economy and, yes, the future itself was a potential house of cards in a hurricane.

People understand, even if they can't articulate it, that the difference between civilization and barbarism is thin ice in an ever warming world.

We see it on TV everyday, everywhere, not just Iraq. The incongruity of shopping mall America and shantytown World is bound, if unconsciously, to cause stress, guilt perhaps, that we have plenty, while others have none.

And, then, as we see our own fortunes dwindle and necessarily support the lifestyle to which we have become accustomed upon credit, debt and interest, and find ourselves poorer and poorer while the rich get richer and richer, why, it may occur to some that something is out of kelter.....
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