Originally Posted By ecdc <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/02/heres-how-red-states-are-rolling-back-worker-protections/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/...ections/</a> We're going to do everything in our power to strip you of as many rights as we possibly can in the workplace, then we're totally going to blame you and call you lazy when you complain that you can't support your family.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Reading the comments attached to the article are chilling. A bunch of clueless defenders of the elite who believe hook, line, and sinker the blatant lies perpetrated by the right via talking heads like Rush and Hannity. As for ecdc's observation above, we've seen this plenty in WE over the years, most recently in another thread about how "lazy" people who don't eat nutritious food have only themselves to blame. It's simply more of the "blame the victim" mentality to justify the negative attitudes which drive the dissonance pertaining to the class war. Pretend like the middle class and working poor brought this upon themselves to numb the pain of reality that democracy is limited and only the rich have any true measure of lasting power.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Reading the comments attached to the article are chilling.<< I often meet people who have had their jobs offshored and taken an economic beating who defend, tooth and nail, the predator class.
Originally Posted By tiggertoo <<I often meet people who have had their jobs offshored and taken an economic beating who defend, tooth and nail, the predator class.>> That's the most frustrating part of the right using the term 'class warfare'. Yes, this is a war, but it isn't the poor and middle class that instigated it. They're simply protecting what they have---and losing the battles. It's as if Napoleon marched upon the gates of Moscow and complained that the Russian were fighting back.
