The Real Job Creators: Everyday Americans, Not the 1%

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3. Great article -

These sentences especially:

It's hard to be a Democrat because we have to be so many things to so many different people. We're undisciplined, disorganized, and we're up against billionaires who don't like to share and don't play well with others.

These billionaires own the corporations and sit on the boards of all the major media outlets. They control the message and they use fear to divide us, so many will vote against their own best interests. They embrace the uninformed, paranoid and gullible among us, and they call themselves and their minions Republicans. They are well funded, organized and unified around the basic emotions of fear and greed.

I knew this at a young age because my dad worked in a steel mill and belonged to a union. I knew the union wasn't perfect but as my dad said "it's all we've got". I'm middle-aged now and my dad is close to 70. We still have conversations about this occasionally. Last year when I called back home to Wisconsin and said "Dad, what's going on there?" "Oh this Scott *expletive* - he just wants to break the unions". Clear as a bell. It would be great if we had that kind of clarity everywhere but unfortunately most people just watch the mainstream media and hear the wealthy's view on what is happening. There are fewer folks belonging to unions because we don't have as many manufacturing jobs now and the big corporations have fought tooth and nail to keep union organizing out of the service professions.

And that's where we are.