New Loras Poll: Sanders does better with better educated, more liberal Democrats.

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162. Alert ? why would anyone alert...

you're more than welcome to apply criticism to anything written. That's how I see it. I don't alert on anything and never have. As far as your post goes... it is nonsense of the highest order. Without blue-collar labor nothing gets built and nothing gets done. That is a fact. It is not open to debate. Ideas are meaningless without the "grunts." Are there social scabs without an ounce of solidarity among blue-collar workers ? Of course there are but far far less than among the white color professional class and "management." The world does not revolve around the professional class, yuppies, and the intellectual set but many sure as hell think it does. There are no advances possible without blue-collar "grunt" labor and there never will be.

It is the blue-collar people, the struggling, the poor, the "uneducated" that are disrespected in society not the other way around. You also have the wrong idea as to what is being said. I'm not dissing the professional class or what they do. I'm not dissing education or the intellectuals. I'm dissing their complicity with capitalism at all costs, their upper "middle-class" elitism and sensibilities, and complete lack of solidarity and respect that many of them have with blue-collar workers and those beneath their social station.


Solidarity Forever

When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong.

Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.

Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.

It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong.

All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
While the union makes us strong.

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.

Ralph Chaplin