Our expectations are really low

[Hortensis]

3. There is no third way. It was temporary and died over a decade ago.

However, I agree that we have been manipulated since the late 1970s to lower our expectations, a major tactic being to simply drop wages, or not raise them with inflation, and let us get used to it.

That we got used to it instead of getting angry, though, that was OUR fault. Not some silly "third way" crap.

We, and by this I mean roughly 150 million workers, are the productive classes of a fabulously wealthy nation. If we're pocketing chump change for our contribution and not even bothering to vote, wouldn't that explain and even justify some of the contempt of the laissez-faire types who speak of maximizing labor and consumer profits?

But buck up. It's 30 years late, but we are angry. Such a shame people are throwing mud 20 different ways instead of throwing a rope around the fiscal necks of those who actually conspired to bring us to this.

Don't buck up too much, though. National stupidity could buy us another couple decades. Social movements require time to develop.