Assault on the Working Class
The national Strike in France has some interesting issues involving our own plight. A new law there placing restrictions on unions and easing policies on hiring and firing of employees, along with numerous other changes have evoked walkouts nationwide.
What is most astounding is that the legislation doesn't come from a right wing faction, but a Socialist administration. One elected by the same working people that they are supposed to represent.
Some of the protests have turned violent as people fill the streets with anger at what is perceived as a complete repudiation of their values. They complain that the government will not listen to them and the only course is to shut the country down.
It is remarkable to see crowds of people waving flags and chanting slogans amid clouds of gas and pepper spray. Then it dawned on me. Isn't the same things happening right here? Hasn't the Democratic Party completely reversed it's values?
While I don't advocate violence, I can't help but wonder if the American people have it in them to follow the French, into the streets placards waving, insisting " Enough is Enough ".
Comments
Protests are a waste of energy if you aren't
willing to replace the offending party members with members that are loyal to the political philosophy. It has been obvious for 20 years that the "new right's strategy" was to mole their way into traditional lefty parties, embracing only the cause of women and minorities, but otherwise being conservative, enact conservative economic policies, than use partisan loyalty only enough to command labor unions, and minority rights orgs, to do gotv for them. As long as the rule is that you cannot criticize or run against a fellow party member protesting does nothin.
the new laws
also make it easier to off shore jobs.
Solidarity forever
Center Left parties
throughout the developed world have actively worked to betray the very people who put them into power. We have reached the point where the center cannot and should not hold.
Pity would be no more if we did not make somebody poor-William Blake