Listen to right wing radio, (and watch your IQ go down)
or listen to the ‘‘entertainment channel’’ otherwise known
as Fox news… and who exactly speaks for the middle class
or the working poor? I have on occasion, tortured myself,
by listening to Faux News and no one there actually speaks
to anyone poor or even middle class… the poor, the
‘‘Entitled’’ class, is never heard from… Faux news talks
about the middle class or the working poor, but you
never actually hear from anyone who is middle class or the
working poor… there is much talk about the working/middle
class by people who are very wealthy… but who speaks for
the working/middle class?
In journalism, very few speak from being poor or middle class…
virtually everyone on TV has a high income… Wolf Blitzer for
example has an estimated net worth of $10 million dollars…
and Anderson Cooper makes $12 million a year
with someone like Erin Burnett making $6 million a year…
and with someone like Mika making $8 million a year with
an estimated net worth of $20, I ask again, who speaks
for the middle/working class?
if everyone on TV, making millions, I can’t see how they
are supposed to speak to the trials and tribulations of the
poor/working/middle class… the median annual wage for
all, ALL, U.S workers is around $48,000… and who speaks
for them? At least the left acknowledges the poor/working class,
the right considers them as leeches and stealers of the American
dream… and that is, in part, the basis of the ‘’‘WOKE’’ movement,
where even poor people are considered to have value and worth…
which is something the right would never consider…
everyone on TV speaks about the poor and middle class
from a position of wealth and income… it would never
cross the mind of a conservative that working people
have any value outside of being the beast of burden for America…
and as such, not having any value at all…
Even here, on ILP, is there anyone who is truly part of
the poor? As a staunch liberal, I still am considered to
be part of the middle class… not the working poor…
but that is the point, I speak of the working poor class as one
who is middle class… but at least I have some experience
of being poor, I have been homeless twice over a dozen years
and once having a single jar of peanut butter to last me for
3 weeks with no other food available… been there, done that…
can you say the same?
Can any on TV say that? very few if any… and so, without
any experience of being poor, how can the talking heads
of TV have anything relevant to say about the working poor
or even the middle class?
The Oligarchs of America have always considered the working
class poor as the enenmy… and thus the class warfare of the last
40 years, since the Raygun years has finally moved to destroy
what is left of the working class and middle class…
by using vast tax cuts to take away their money and put
it in the hands of the oligarchs… that is the point of
tax cuts… to redistribute wealth… only in this case, from
the working poor/middle class to the very wealthy caste…
and in this vast scheme, who speaks for the poor/
middle class? No one… who in congress today, outside
of AOC and Sanders, who speaks for the poor?
everyone else is very wealthy in congress, in the white house,
in the cabinet, where just every single cabinet member is a billionaire…
(RFK is only worth about $15 million or so, but the entire
Kennedy family fortune is about 1.2 billion dollars… so,
one shouldn’t cry for them, too much)
So, the vast majority of Americans don’t actually have anyone
who speaks for them, who can understand what being poor
actually means…
I consider this a philosophical problem and not a governmental
or political issue… it comes from the failure of actually
know what it means or to understand what being part of
the working poor actually entails… being part of the
working poor requires Americans to hold down multiple
jobs, to work long cruel hours, just to survive… many of
my co-workers at the grocery store I work at, require food
stamps/EBT just to survive… is that the America we want?
For the oligarchs of America, they want the poor to die
or at the least, to be silent and compliant to every demand
of the wealthy… when will we fight back and demand
our turn in the sun? 500 people, that is the number
of people in the world who own over 50% of all, ALL
wealth in the world… in other words, just 500 people own
as much wealth as over half the world’s population…
and how is that in any, way, shape or form, fair, just, right?
and it is that mindset, that perspective that must become
known… that the vast amount of the world’s wealth is
owned by 500 people… and we must, must change that
if we are to survive as a country, people, a civilization…
the vast disparity of wealth threatens the very survival of
the human race… and must be approached as that…
this is a philosophical problem as it is a mindset,
a viewpoint problem… we must change our perspective
that owning wealth is considered to be desirable…
the aspect of being human that can be considered to be the
most important part of being human lies within community,
that human beings are a communal species… that we are
human because of being a species that is about community…
and owning wealth is not a part of that… in fact, I would
argue that owning wealth and being part of the community
is opposite of each other… antithetical to each other…
for it has been the case for recorded history, that the wealthy
has gone its own way, oppose to the needs of the poor, because
the poor might, might take away the wealth of the oligarchs…
and we certainly can’t have that, can we?
Notice I haven’t been speaking about the middle class and
that is because the idea of a middle class wasn’t around
until the 19th century… it may have existed, but it wasn’t talked
about… and what middle class there was, was very small…
it wasn’t until the French Revolution that the idea of the middle
class came into being… for Example, Goethe’s family would
be considered to be upper middle class, but he never
talked about that in terms of his family background… it
wasn’t talked about…
For the most part, the leaders of the French Revolution,
were of the middle class… as was the Russian Revolution…
and this is important… the revolution to come, must have
leadership and that leadership will come from the middle class…
and thus, why we haven’t had any talk about revolution in America…
there is no leadership coming from anybody right now…
a failure of leadership from the upper or middle class is all
that is slowing down the cause of the revolution…
but that will soon change… because at some point here,
there will be voices rising from the middle class, not the
working poor, because no one ever, EVER listens to the
working poor…nor does anyone from the working poor
have any type of platform that will allow their voice to be heard…
and that is what is needed, a platform which allows the voices
of the vast majority of Americans to be heard… thus the possible
value of the internet… and why the oligarchs are in such
a hurry to silence, or at least control the internet…
thus, the rush to create laws that allow only the corporations
and wealthy to have a voice on the internet…
a free and open internet would allow the poor voices
to be heard… and we can’t have that…
Kropotkin