January 2008
Is it me, or has anyone else noticed that during this so-called presidential race that there is a large group of people within this country who are never spoken of?
They are the largest group of people in this country, and even the most important, yet you don’t hear Edwards or Clinton or Obama talk about them. You might think that if anybody would talk about these people it would be the so-called democrats. The republicans most definitely do not speak about them. Nor does the mainstream news media ever ask questions as to why these people aren’t spoken of.
You hear about the other people all the time, the upper class and the middle class, but you never hear about the working class. I remember reading and learning that once in this country, way back when it first was being formed, there were only two classes of people: the rich and the poor. They hated each other so much that a new group of people were invented as a buffer between those two groups or classes of people. This new group was called the middle class.
The people at the bottom of the totem pole do most of the backbreaking work in this society. They are exploited. They are dishwashers, toilet cleaners, grade school teachers, janitors, sweat shop workers, fast food workers and the other working poor, just to name a few. These people are the backbone of this society, yet you never hear them mentioned in any of the political talk, speeches, debates or commercials.
This is the truth, and a shameful truth at that! Instead of acknowledging them, politicians act like they don’t exist! Why?
Part of the reason is because it is these poor people that fill up the prisons in this country. It’s the lower class of people who are tortured and executed in death houses in this country. It’s the working poor who are the victims and scapegoats of this society.
In Struggle & Solidarity,
Kevin Cooper