--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@...> wrote: <snip> [quoting John Cole:] > Consistently, when asked, right wing positions on issues are > summarily rejected by large percentages of the population. > Yet we are constantly only given choices that range from > center right to far right, and anyone who suggests any of > the things the public actually want is declared a crazy > lefty.
To repeat what I quoted earlier from Kevin Drum's piece in Mother Jones, because it explains *why* this is the case: "Politicians [including Obama in many cases--JS] don't respond to the concerns of voters, they respond to the organized muscle of institutions that represent them. With labor in decline, both parties now respond strongly to the interests of the rich--whose institutional representation is deep and energetic--and barely at all to the interests of the working and middle classes." http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-labor-union-decline http://tinyurl.com/6z9ftad When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, But the union makes us strong. CHORUS: Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, For the union makes us strong. Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite, Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might? Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight? For the union makes us strong. Chorus It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade; Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid; Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made; But the union makes us strong. Chorus All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone. We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone. It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own. While the union makes us strong. Chorus They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn That the union makes us strong. Chorus In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the union makes us strong. Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, For the union makes us strong.
