Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?

The New York Times ^ | June 24, 2015 | Thomas B. Edsall

[KC_Lion]

Rise up and do what?

Read about the Paris Commune:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune

What's Past is Prologue.

[demshateGod]

I’d go in for that if we can mix in some pols.

[GeronL]

Rise up and destroy everything and everyone that produces the revenue that keeps them fed and everything.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Oh, they rise up.

At the crack of noon.

[Army Air Corps]

I read about the Paris Commune when I was in university. It was a precursor to the USSR, but with a French accent.

[SpaceBar]

a political scientist at the University of Minnesota...

A navel gazing academic asks what's wrong with America.
Film at eleven.

[KC_Lion]

As you get more equality of outcome, you get less freedom —they’re OPPOSITES.

We chose freedom, North Korea chose equality.

We need to Expose our Children about that fact.

But How?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioDuLqK_LuY

[ronnietherocket3]

1. They grew being told by statists to keep in line and obey their superiors
2. They have been mislead by too many people who are out for money or power no the good of the poor
3. They have better things to do, like work and feed their families
4. For those that don't work, they have better things to do like get drunk or high.
5. There is no vanguard of the proletariat
6. Everytime they do, things get worse (French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Chinese Revolution, ...)
7. Liberals are too busy taking their guns

[arthurus]

I won’t read more at the NYT but from the extract one would think the NYT is calling for the serfs to rise up and throw off their chains. Thw whole of the MSM is composed of closet and some not so closet Marxists and outright Communists. Equal distribution of wealth for all, except the MSM types and the Academicians and the Rulers. They have to have enough to eat to rule us wisely and think the great thoughts. When we get to that equal distribution of wealth there will not be very much wealth in the society to distribute as voluntary (for profit) production will cease and forced production is not sufficiently efficient to feed the population, much less keep it prosperous.

[piasa]

You nailed it.

[GeronL]

“Reign of Terror” is probably coming here if this keeps going

[marron]

It is funny that the people wanting the proletariat to rise up and overthrow the man, are the man.

[LibWhacker]

According to the Census Bureau, 64 million Americans currently live in the bottom quintile.

Well, DUH! By definition, the bottom quintile is the bottom 20% of the population. The population of the US is about 300 million, and so the bottom quintile is about 60 million... DUH!!!

There will ALWAYS be a bottom quintile (the stupid left thinks they can outlaw it) and it will always be the bottom one-fifth of the population. That's true whether the total population is one million or one billion. And it's true whether everybody in the country is living on less than two dollars a day (the left's most cherished wet dream), or whether we are all living on more than two thousand dollars a day and are the envy of the world.

The New York Times ought to change its name to the New DUH Times.

[GeronL]

lol

[GeronL]

bump

[2ndDivisionVet]

U OF M, 2014, DAVID JULIAN SAMUELS, TWIN CITIES, PROFESSOR, $160,072

[GeronL]

20% of Americans (and illegals) are in the bottom 20%

and the New York Times thinks this can be changed!

[Army Air Corps]

The difference is that the average French citizen wasn’t armed.

[SpaceBar]

"the people wanting the proletariat to rise up and overthrow the man, are the man"

That's beautiful right there.

[VanShuyten]

“Rise up and destroy everything and everyone that produces the revenue that keeps them fed and everything.”

They don’t have to destroy everything. If they were to just loot, say, the Sulzberger family, it would keep them happy for quite a while. I’m sure quite a bit of Carlos Slim’s cash is still left, too.