The staged performance and then the betrayal

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14. The party isn't gonna change. Period. At least not in your lifetime, or the next one.

A lotta good people gonna waste a lot of time trying to change this. Big waste of time.

They would be better off finding something else to do.

In the early 1900's a commission found that business was spending about 80 million dollars a year on traitors, murderers, private security, spies and other miscreants to fight labor. After business, the government, and the AF of L had nearly killed off the IWW, some members broke with the IWW and joined the AF of L, saying they were going to change the it "from the inside". They were told the AF of L were liars and cheaters (Book: Them and Us - James J. And James Higgins Matles of the UE, or Mother Jones Autobiography) and cannot be trusted, "it ain't gonna work". And it didn't, and they didn't change it, and here we are today with government and business conspiring against the people.

Again.

I don't see a war that enriches us to save us for a few decades this time, however. I think we have forgotten how we got here, and there seems to be real resistance to remembering. That's troubling.