Reply #36: One of these days. . . .

[Tansy_Gold]

. . . one of these governments is going to fall, and whatever replaces it is going to do what should have been done in the first place -- which is to rein in the obscenely wealthy. It might be done peacefully, or it might not. It might be Greece or it might be Italy or it might be Spain. Or some other country we aren't watching quite as closely.

But wherever it is, and however it happens, it will be the first domino to fall, and it will push all the others over.

And whether the resulting cascade is calm and orderly and "civilized" or rough and bloody and terrible remains to be seen.

One way or another, sooner or later, it will happen.


It will.



I wrote the above last night on another thread about Greece somewhere on DU. Doesn't matter where.

But somewhere, someday, some hard-working person is going to declare that they've had enough and they're going to do something that will set off another hard-working person and another and another and another. And a government is going to fall and all hell is going to break loose.

I do not think the OWS movement, such as it is, will be the primary actor in this drama. OWS is like Tolkien's Ents, lots of talking and talking and talking, but not really a whole lot of action, at least not yet. Other players will set off the American Ents.

One of my professors said that the reason American labor has lagged behind its European cousins is that European labor came together in the 19th C to gain the vote and saw that as a very precious acquisition. In contrast, American labor (male and white, at least) got the vote without the same kind of struggle and therefore never developed much in the way of working-class solidarity. Without that kind of shared goal, unity has been difficult to achieve.

We'll see what happens next.



TG