hi from europe, i "love" watching "democrats" apologise for fascism!

[mntleo2]

235. Many poor Amer. have been speaking ...

...but we were laughed off the stage and ridiculed ~ and while many are now listening, they think it is all new, they did not realize that it has been going on for 3 decades. I am including ppl right here on DU who call themselves "Democrats". The upper classes completely ignored ~ and even blamed the poor working those horrible McJobs ~ for "choosing" to be poor when the poor were homeless in their own communities right under their noses. Of course their "solution" was to ...just make it illegal to be homeless! There! That took care of it!

Until they themselves began to lose their own homes ... then suddenly unaffordable housing was *not* their fault. Ain't that a coiinkidink?

It makes us really sad (and for me kinda mad) to see more ppl vote for America's Got Talent than for their own freaking government. We TRIED to tell them that all the policies being put in place meant that they were next and I cannot tell you how many times I got the " that's not true it is because all poor people are lazy" meme. Now they are all surprised that it HAS come for them when they themselves supported those dummass laws and policies that are biting them in the ass.

I have been an advocate for low income people for almost 35 years. Let me tell you, I want to scream every time some person who has fallen from the upper classes down to poverty tells me, "B-b-b-ut I worked hard, I did all the right things ..." Like they are SO special and SO with it, do they actually think poor people did NOT "do all the right things" too? I feel for them, but cannot help but wonder when it was that they either did not do a damn thing or voted against their interest because they thought those laws were "for everybody else". Unless they are ignorant, they should know those self interested, rich people's laws dripping with facism that are made in this country, apply to everybody, not just the poor.

Cat in Seattle
Board member of People Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights (POWER http://www.mamapower.org)