I Can No Longer Stomach Middle Class Americans of the Commissar Caste

[Carl]

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T.Ruth2power (226 posts)         Sat Jun-07-08 12:32 PM
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I Can No Longer Stomach Middle Class Americans of the Commissar Caste
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Cheaper to rent slaves than own them- by Joe Bageant



These people do not consider themselves affluent or their families particularly elite. Yet their kids, after finishing expensive educations, will eventually take the reins of the administrative class, university deans, government bureaucrats, financial managers, publishing and electronic media people, etc. Then they will continue to stick the ole prickly pear to the other four-fifths of Americans, not to mention the world, without flinching. And they will continue to consider themselves quite ordinary Americans, and expect their children to do even better. Though it is nowhere near the middle demographically, this is the true middle class in America, the only group that meets the criteria we are trained to associate with the term "middle class." In truth they only represent about 20% of the population. The dangerous 20% in my opinion. Not that they ever ask me.

I'm like everyone else in my generation. I was raised on Ozzie and Harriet and the Dick Van Dyke Show. So the image of the middle class American life fried into my cranial wiring by the great hologram burner looks like that. People stashing money in the college fund for the Beav, and never getting tired or dirty at work ... sporting Argyle sweaters and smiling affectionately, asking, "Are you boys ready for a milk shake?" (Ozzie always had time to make a ****ing milk shake. Did that guy ever actually go to work?). However, if the middle class is defined as the middle of the middle of Americans, then the real middle class guy or gal is probably driving a car parts delivery truck or clerking at the mall.

Anyway, I'm just et up wif class rage bubba! I can no longer stomach middle class Americans of the commissar caste. I'll blame them for any ****ing thing I can think up. Because it is they who enable the great faceless economic machine to grind the piss out of the other four-fifths of the population. They've got theirs and they'll blow whoever they must to keep what they’ve got. The core of this nation’s gutlessness rest with this national bucket of soft little maggots. Because on the whole they are the only class with even modest political power politicians would actually listen to them if the screeched about justice instead of losing 10% on their 401Ks. But they won't. So I lay much of this nation's planetary and societal criminality on this three-quarter million dollar ****-box crowd.

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2008/06/cheaper-to-rent.h...

A peek into an insane and rambling mind is kind of scary isn`t it.

The first couple of responses try to take issue and thinking as the fire grows all the whiners will eventually show up to screech on how unfair life is.

The_Casual_Observer  (1000+ posts)         Sat Jun-07-08 12:41 PM
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1. So it's not just the rich anymore, it's anybody with an education
   and the drive for their family to succeed. That guy is a gob who yeans fot a marxist state.

T.Ruth2power (226 posts)         Sat Jun-07-08 12:43 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Define success
   n/t

WOW!  you must have been on a debate team huh?

Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts)         Sat Jun-07-08 12:47 PM
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4. Essentially, you appear to be advocating Maoism, or something similar to it.
   I invite you to consider where that lead.

Western society may or may not be able to function without a top 1% of capitalists. It certainly can't function without doctors, lawyers, academics and so on.
   

Perhaps this will lift the mask too high and the word will go out to let the thread die but thought it could be a fun one.

[TheSarge]

I haven' seen that much Stalinist class warefare rhetoric crammed into one article in a long time.

This idiot not only drank the Communist Kool-aid....he's gone back for thirds.

[Tantal]

Yup, this guy wants everybody to be stupid................just like him. I wonder if this guy's ever picked up a history book to learn what happens when you remove all hope of ever improving your lot in life or that of your children?

[Rebel]

Looks like Pol Pot has been reincarnated.

[jukin]

KILL everyone with glasses.

[ScubaGuy]

And the resident homeless bum of DU chimes in:

bobbolink  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Jun-07-08 03:21 PM
Response to Reply #5
60. I wish I had the choice to have an apartment.
   
That would be very nice, indeed, for millions of us.

She forgets that she had a section 8 unit but CHOSE to be homeless because she didn't like the manager and how she was treated.
She has some income and she CHOSE not to get a house mate because she shouldn't have to do that.
As far as I can tell Bobbolink made choices her entire life that put her where she's at.

Bobolink.  This one's for you. 

[InfamousAndy]

Heh, so, according to the DUmmies, I am evil and should be punished since I went from minimum wage to 20.53 /hr within 5 years?

[TheSarge]

Heh, so, according to the DUmmies, I am evil and should be punished since I went from minimum wage to 20.53 /hr within 5 years?

HELL YES!!!   How DARE you show initative like that and better yourself when there are people in this country who are far more lzay than you and refuse to rise above head fry machine operator at Mickey D's./DU mode

[Chris_]

Heh, so, according to the DUmmies, I am evil and should be punished since I went from minimum wage to 20.53 /hr within 5 years?

Yes.  Success is defined as being "lucky."  Since you were lucky and others were not, you must SHARE your luck with them until they are equal with your return from your luck.

[ScubaGuy]

Heh, so, according to the DUmmies, I am evil and should be punished since I went from minimum wage to 20.53 /hr within 5 years?

Yes.  Success is defined as being "lucky."  Since you were lucky and others were not, you must SHARE your luck with them until they are equal with your return from your luck.

And when it's not luck it was always gained at the expense of someone poorer than you.