The BEST Blue-Collar Rant Ever (pro-Bernie)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Word.

Day in and day out, we do things we know are hurting us, killing us before our time, to try and help others around us. Down here in the 99%, we do jobs that ruin our joints, destroy our lungs, expose us to chemicals, to disease, sacrificing our lives bit by bit not just to keep ourselves alive, but to help children, friends, families. We wear worn out clothing, eat poor quality food, drive rusted out vehicles we pray won't break down, and, by and large, don't have the time to spend on politics, because most of the time politicians aren't working for us. We're the afterthought. Even among those who proclaim themselves our 'champions', they mostly don't even talk about the poor, only the 'middle class' - an ever shrinking part of the population, the 'appendix' of the wealthy.

We do need a revolution. We have to break the system that enables two small tribes of elites to rule us while only giving us 'bread and circuses', often without the bread. That proclaims that we're wealthier than ever because even the 'poor' have smartphones, that shoddy tech that is quickly obsolete being cheap makes up for affordable housing, quality food, education, healthcare. That ignores the fact that some communities in our country hit 80% unemployment.

Read that again - 80%. How is that not considered a disaster zone? Why are we not pouring federal money into communities that spend their lives in overcrowded houses covered in black mold, eating the cheapest possible food, with high suicide rates and people dying every winter for lack of heating oil or propane?

We hide from our shame, rather than working to fix it.