When It Happened Before
"Mad-Ronnie"s Reagan Revolution (1980) worked because he convinced poor whites that they were Middle Class (simply because they were white). The Archie Bunker, blue collar class rewarded Reagan by helping him kill their Unions! The last time we went through this in this country was after the Financial Meltdown that took place between 1929 and 1933 -- known as The Great Depression!
At that time the Labor Union Movement established their foot-hold in their fight against the Wall Street Barons and Industrialists; by passing Glass-Steagall legislation to curb the excess of the Money Boys of that day, and The Wagner Act for organized labor. Poor whites won those battles by forming alliances with non-whites. Once the Unions were established, they turned against their black and other non-white allies by creating segregated unions. Poor whites held rigidly to their "religion" of discrimination against persons of color. The root of that hatred rested in the religion of the ethnic white poor. The Rich of that day used those poor whites to "Police" the blacks and other non-whites in our segregated, apartheid nation.
Fast forward to 2013, and our Mad-Right, legacy of Mad-Ronnie, is engaged in a Civil War within the Republican Party. The Party finally realizes that they must exorcise the Tea Party and their fellow-travelling race baiters; or their Party has no future! Not all of these Wacko's are to be found in the Republican Party. There are still "Blue Dogs", and "Yellow Dogs", in the Democratic Party. Their poison is spreading throughout the nation, forming RED, (and Poor) states.
Hopefully, non-whites in the United States, like the blacks in South Africa, will find the inner courage and wisdom to stand up to this poison in all of its forms and get finally free from the shackles of slavery.
The poison works primarily in the mind, appealing to emotion, while killing off the ability to think rationally. The current "kerfluffle" in the Media over the "REDSKINS" is a current example of the way this poison works. The 'Birthers' are yet another.
Why now? Poor whites have "discovered" that, despite the Media's long-standing campaign to paste a non-white face on Poverty in this country; the majority of poor people in the United States are, and always have been, white!
The Republican Party, from 2000 to 2008 bilked this nation out of 13 Trillion Dollars, through river-boat gambles that failed in the Middle East, Tax Give-Away's to the top 1%, Housing Industry Melt-Downs, and a free-for-all in our banking and financial systems. That Middle Class that Reagan welcomed poor whites to join, vanished, as result!
While the Republicans "house clean" within their party, the Democrats must do the same! Political Tricks like electing a tough gansta from New Jersey, or electing a female, or some slick skin-color ruse like "9-9-9"; will not save a party or save our country!
Stay Vigilant! If Unions ever regain their strength, they'd better get it right this time!
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