Pension Theft: Class War Goes to the Next Stage - Dean Baker

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7. That is something that needs to be publicized. And it all boils down to inequality and bigotry, IMO.

That money went somewhere, and the voting block that put the Rethugs in charge of it all, thought they were entitlted and the workers and citizens of Detroit were not.

It's been a long time coming, media and films disparaging Dettoit and other cities as if they are full of evil people. The propaganda against Detroit was no more true than the rest of the myths pushed since the Nixon era that went on steroids with Reagan.

The questions that Americans not yet affected must answer:

Is Detroit and its citizens not worthy of fair treatment by those in less metropolitan areas?

Are the rural or suburban areas full of more righteous, hard working or intelligent people than those who built Detroit into a place that the world envied for its ability to organize natural resources, technology and human skill to command the world market?

I say NO to both questions. And it's why I see America as having a long staanding plantation mentality that sees those who are not rich or connected as deserving of no respect, decent education and homes, healthcare, and entitlted to rest, retirement and relaxation. They only deserve the lash of the owners.

This way of thinking has been disguised with new words, rhetoric, whatever. It says that the premise of equality, as the Condederacy's president and vice president stated, was not a viable system. That some were born to serve and be used, and others were born to rule.

We can either live up to equality for all, or surrender to feudalism. I fear we are far down that road in the practical sense because the people have allowed bigotry and greed to take over instead of realizing we must stand as one.