America ain't got it in 'er. The USA is not up to a strong, vibrant, necessary union movement in the 21st century. Of course, she wasn't up to in the 19th or 20th either...
Watching the final crumbling of whatever the 2008 electorate thought might happen, every one of us should understand that the people, the proletariat, the 99%, whatever, is not up to organizing and acting en masse in their own interests and the interests of their class and their children. Our politics and political economy have disintegrated; the nutballs and assholes and Koch-suckers have broken the system once and for all. It will take a giant crisis and much suffering to alter the course now, and that is something the USA as we know it will not survive.
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