(Written by an American expat living in the European Union)
(This appears to be a picture of two mothers collecting food boxes from the charity Feed the Children.)
As an American expat living in the European Union, I have come to see the American plutocracy for what it is which is a propaganda machine bent on the subjection and destruction of the American working class as both an economic and political force. It seems that the arch enemy of every plutocrat is the working class American dream of a living wage, health care for all as a human right, protection of the environment and mass economic literacy. Any institution or prominent individual who supports the working class American dream is seen as the arch enemy of the plutocracy and therefore must be destroyed by means of character assassination and propaganda. So it is that the American plutocracy through its propaganda arm of Fox Nation and hate radio has mercilessly attacked the last honest champion of the American working class which is the union. I tell you in earnest our union brothers and sisters and working class folks everywhere, if we lose union America, we lose not only the American dream, we lose American democracy as we've come to know it.
The plutocracy and their jack booted thugs from Fox Nation and hate radio mean to firmly plant their boot in our throats to destroy the last best hope of the American working class dream which is the union. You see the union, unlike too many of our American politicians cannot be bought by the K street lobbyists. Therefore the plutocracy has decided it must be destroyed and anyone who stands with the union must be destroyed along with it. That's why they're trying to destroy the teaching profession and many other types of public employees because this will lower literacy standards and therein help create a permanent low wage peasant underclass in America that can be exploited.
As an American expat living in the European union, I see this as the expression of class warfare of the plutocracy versus the working class, in a posture wherein America almost already has the lowest union membership of any country in the industrialized world.
The United States unlike France has no meaningful legislation that would provide for universal medical access and dental access, where the law requires paid sick leave, paid maternity leave, paid annual leave, subsidized day care, subsidized elder care. America needs its unions in support of the American working class dream. Let's be clear, they're not just trying to destroy the unions. They are trying to destroy you in an act of class warfare by destroying the value of our pensions, our medical care, the value of our homes, quality of our children's education. They are trying to defund our libraries in a pushed to the wall fight to the finish. The thing they're trying to do most of all is to destroy working class pride, working class unity and working class hope.
Every country in the European Union has paid sick leave for all. Even low wage workers receive paid sick leave, even if they're not unionized. The same low wage workers receive a medical plan, a dental plan, imagine this they even receive paid vacation and a pension plan that can't be taken away. No wonder they have a lower rate of crime. Whereas in America we have over 2 million people in county, state and federal prisons. In fact we have more people incarcerated in America than we have in the military on active duty. That is to say that over 2 million Americans incarcerated. What a staggering lost of human potential, what a national tragedy and what an international badge of shame! Millions of children without parents. What kind of family values are those?
59 million without medical in the United states, 132 million without dental, 60 million without paid sick leave, 40 million on food stamps. This is what the death of the American dream looks like. This is the plan of the plutocracy for working class America which is nothing less than the complete destruction of the American working class. Nothing less the complete de-industrialzation of America by ripping our manufacturing guts out. They do this by demoralizing us, by lying to us and they do this through their union busting tea party minions. They do this through their Wall Street banksters who steal from us, who steal our pension plans, who repossess our homes, who create crime and create hunger and create fear of millions who no longer know the way out. They have broken the social compact with working class America. It's time to break faith with them. You cannot sit down at the table and play with their marked cards in their rigged game, wherein the only way you can win is never to play for if you sit down at the table with them, you will lose. America has to join the world NOW and provide a European style social safety net for all Americans. Not only because it's cheaper than funding a giant prison system for which there always seems to be plenty of money for but because its the moral thing to do.
Just like in the American iconic classic movie the Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda, millions of Americans in an act of class warfare are being driven off their land by the plutocracy and union busting thugs spreading fear and hunger. We can see that it's all happening again. For it is said those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. We know hunger is a good teacher, don't we?
We cannot talk to people who are engaged through acts of class warfare in destroying us by destroying our unions as the last protector of the American working class. Make no mistake, if you're not a member of the union when the unions are destroyed in America, what do you think will happen to the forty hour work week? What do you think will happen to child labor laws? What do you think will happen to environmental protection? What do you think will happen to safety regulations in the work place? I can tell you as American educated MBA degree holder that the history of American labor prior to the rise of the American unions was ugly indeed. Preventable diseases were killing and maiming people in America who couldn't get access to medical care. We see the start of this happening again.
It is the goal of the plutocracy to make it ugly again. If we are to survive this class war, I tell you union brothers and sisters and fellow working class Americans, we must stick together. We must save the union!
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