An open letter to America’s 1%: you had better hope violent protesters stay stupid.

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108. The problem is not that there will aways be a !%.

The problem is the huge disparity between the wealth of the top 10% and the bottom 60-70%. The rate of the disparity has increased from 10 times to hundreds of times the average wage resulting in a situation that can not be justified of sustained without some type of eventual response. Perhaps the response will be increased unionization of workers or perhaps open class warfare. The fact is that it cannot continue. However, this may not be within the foreseeable future as judged by the results of recent elections in which millions of the working class people either failed to vote or actually voted against their own interest. It is almost inconceivable that this could be happening and can only be attributable that fact they are the victims of a massive propaganda machine that begins at the municipal level and extends to the national campaigns.

You have to at least hand it to the Republicans that their campaign has been very successful. It begins at the local level. Conservative and fundamentalist churches are major force in their campaign in which the champion key wedge issues that determine the outcome. These groups are not comprised of part time activists, but by determined zealots and outright demagogues who are determined to advance their agenda. When it is coupled with virtual control of the mass media it becomes a force that has proven to be successful. When virtually ever municipal office is dominated by conservative Republicans it becomes nearly impossible to gain any traction for progressive ideas. Just to contemplate the influence that conservatives have in determining local school practices coupled with their determination to destroy the public school system it is evident that progressives will have a difficult struggle ahead of them.