Chris Hedges: America is a Tinderbox

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37. You are absolutely CORRECT!

They haven't been in the voting booths in years, in any significant numbers. People who make more money vote, those who don't, generally, don't. It's public record, and anyone who wants to suggest otherwise can google it, if their education is so lacking.

In the street? Nope. The leaders of the pathetic little movements we see frighten no one, and instead have spittle and McDonalds applications thrown down on them. They are, generally, white, middle-class folks, many with other jobs that they leave to walk, but not hardly in numbers that the police can't control relatively easily.

Interesting the faux-outrage thrown at you, though why they lash out, stomp their feet and get pissy at you for stating it is telling. Then again, maybe that's why there is better attendance at Black Friday sales at Walmart by low-income workers than at the voting booth. Maybe they feel more welcome.

People should be should be voting, and marching, and perhaps even burning down the house. Go back to 1920's and 30's, when there were hundreds of thousands in the street, hungry children marching past the White house, people gathering across the world,

They aren't today, haven't been in a long time, regardless of those who want desperately to believe otherwise.