Working Class Brits...

CAC · Sep 19, 2011

John B said:

Thank you for your response urqh; I will share this anecdote about the London office manager with my class on Monday.

Biak, I think that the United States is as divided today as it was during the height of the debacle over the Vietnam War, or perhaps even the American Civil War, with its conflict over slavery and federal vs. state power.

I myself have been severely disappointed by Obama's seeming inability to take decisive action -even when he controlled both the Congress and the Senate- to deliver the sort of liberal democratic reforms that progressives throughout the United States -and around the world- were hoping for.

As far as both sides being intransigent, I respectfully disagree.

From where I sit, it looks like the Democrats have bent over backwards to attempt to accomodate the Republicans again and again...too much so, in fact. (You didn't see this focus on consensus during Dubya's administration.)

The Republicans, increasingly controlled by the Tea Party fanatics, wouldn't support any legislation proposed by Obama -they'd stonewall an "I-like-puppies-and-kittens bill" and then try to label it as "socialist" and "un-American."

Barak Obama's policies, regarded as nothing short of Marxist by some, are actually quite mildly liberal democratic by the standards of virtually every government in the western industrial world. (Even the policies of Canadian Conservatives are mostly to the left of Obama's legislative attempts.)

Time and time again, the record shows that Republicans have voted against proposals they had formally supported, just because they have been presented by the current administration.

I honestly believe that 'the elephant in the living room' here is race. -It appears that many Americans have not got over -and cannot get over- the fact that the United States elected a black man as president.

Those are my thoughts on the subject.

My heart goes out to the millions of middle and working class Americans who seem to be suffering now more than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

At the end of the Second World War, when the United States truly was a great country, the gap between rich and poor was much smaller than it is today, unions were vibrant forces, growing in influence, taxes on the wealthy and on corporations were much higher than they are now, and the middle class was expanding -rather than contracting to the point of extinction.
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I think the US's problems are far greater than Britains...With the number of Mexicans (south americans) and now Chinese living in the US, more political leaders will come from and be representing these groups (to the detriment of other groups). Further, in as little as a hundred years the US may well face a "fracturing" due to the different groups and the areas they have chosen to live. Of course i cannot see this as a smooth transition, instead a second civil war will ensue. Sounds alarmist or paranoid? Check out the number of South Americans and Chinese coming to America...and counting...

urqh · Sep 20, 2011

Will they be accepting foreign mercanaries into the ranks....I want to be on Slipdigits side. They have the grey uniforms with the better hats. I never went for the blue baseball caps.
America. Your about to be mongralised...Again...We over here did that first time round. Now your getting the second coming. Play Dixie and raise the flag...Alternately...for the Mexican and Canadian borders you could buy more uav's to add to the present collection on the borders. Reapers everywhere.

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