Whether or not we recognize it, accept it, or don't even believe it, everything within our world is demonstrably interdependently connected. This fundamental truth works on all levels, from the most subtle to the grandest canvasses of our existence.
Our happiness is dependent on the happiness of other people. Imagine spending a lifetime locked in a room with a thousand screaming crying people and you all the while trying to maintain a smile on your face.
Interdependence works on the environmental and economic levels. Society as a whole improves when everyone is prospering. We do not improve our society when half the population is in extreme poverty and only a few own everything, yet political systems insists that this is not true and that it is better to have a few own everything.
AlterNet: 6 Ways the Rich Are Waging a Class War Against the American People
1. Registering the Poor to Vote is 'UnAmerican'
2. Unemployment Benefits Have Created a 'Nation of Slackers'
3. You Can't Really Be Poor if You Have a Color TV!
4. Food-Stamps: 'A Fossil That Repeats All the Errors of the War on Poverty'
5. 'The Main Causes of Child Poverty Are Low Levels of Parental Work and the Absence of Fathers.'
6. Taxing Working People Less Than the Rich Is 'Perverse'
3 comments:
Clearly the "War on the Poor" and the middle class is in high gear.
Classic diversionary tactic from the right - blame the people, thing, or policy that is vulnerable to your intended activity. In this case the rich are trying to preserve their tax structure as it is under the Bush tax cuts, and so they open up a multi-front attack on the people in the least position to defend the attack and thereby they change the conversation. Its classic. Its a carefully scripted switch and bate.
Yes, teachers one month and the poor the next. Then repeat over and over on all available media outlets.
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