Posted on 02/08/2022 6:43:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. That's from Karl Marx, of course. He wrote that famous phrase in 1848. The weird thing is, it's pretty likely that Marx himself never met an actual worker.
Wait a second. He didn't spend a decade in a cotton mill, witnessing the oppression firsthand. No. Karl Marx never spent a moment in a factory. He was a rich kid who became a journalist. Of course he was. But for more than 150 years, Karl Marx inspired generations of other rich kids who also became journalists to repeat his line or variations of it.
Over time, workers became working men or working class and then with feminism, working people or working families, but the idea itself never changed. Ordinary people, wage earners, are getting shafted, so they've got to unite. They've got to come together for protection and for dignity. This was the idea, of course, behind the organized labor movement, and every Democratic president from Andrew Jackson until now has made the very same point over and over again. "The noble people of Scranton..." You hear it even today. So, Democrats have repeated that line often enough. You would think they really mean it.
Do they really mean it? Let's take the test. Here's how you know. Watch what happens when actual workers, working people from working families who constitute the working class, actually come together as a group to protest how things are going.
What happens then? Does the intellectual class greet these workers as heroes? Throw a parade? Listen intently to their stories? Does NPR do a sympathetic feature on them? Or, do self-described progressives recoil in revulsion and horror at the grubbiness of the people who as we used to say,
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Well, you can thank jelly-spined Abbott for imposing leftist policy in our Great State. Of course, he wrote the order as a toothless mandate which could not effectively be enforced by fine or incarceration, but he had his finger in the wind. I really hope he gets voted out for a real conservative.
I hope the convoys start soon.
That makes sense. Perhaps the courts saved the federal government by throwing out their nationwide vaccine mandate.
Also, they don't have a predatory underclass waiting for the opportunities a mass gathering provides.
I was thinking the same thing. Other than for public transportation and medicine, there is no universal vax mandate in the U.S.
i just had and go play the Convoy song from the 70’s ..
They need to get in GAB!! I fear the protests will not be as strong here in the U.S. due to what they did to the J6ers who are still in the political prisoner gulags.
If the Truckers in America were United in a single cause and just SHUT DOWN all trucking, it would get real, real fast.
No Grocery Store or Gas Station has more than a 3 day supply.
Agree. States one after another is the way to go.
DC would erect barricades and toss people into gulags with the 1/6ers.
I intend to vote for Huffines in the primary, but it will probably be Abbott who gets the nomination to face Beta.
I LOVE Huffines as a candidate. He is the “Trump” in the mix for Texas as far as his non-politician credentials. I too intend to vote for him. Slim hope, but that’s what we need.
That’s what I was gonna say, not soon enough — and I was not soon enough onto the thread. So, naturally, your reply was a GREAT reply, heheh. 👍
And we don’t have the innate politeness that Canadians do. It’ll mean more political prisoners, some bloodshed, and guys like Ray Epps walking free.
I-80 or I-10 OR BOTH
bent the national colors on upside down
***bent? Does that mean you hoisted the flag upside down, a symbol of distress?
Sure would be great if a few trucks had loudspeakers & played the “CONVOY” song along the route here in the USA.
Perhaps Texas needs to be sure whomever they vote in as “Governor” can handle things when Texas Secedes.
The commies have turned DC into the Forbidden City.
***Good wordsmithing, almost tagline worthy so I’ll update the tagline page.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3992415/posts?q=1&;page=350#350
Jan6 was a test run. This needs to be done on the sly. Slow roll. With certain areas hit hardest.
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