Workers, young people discuss the enduring relevance of the Battle of Gettysburg

World Socialist Web Site

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Lest you think I'm changing my politics, never fear.  Occasionally, I'll check out a lefty site and see what they're talking about.

This article isn't particularly encouraging.  These young people are imbibing the poisonous doctrines of the left.

If there's a revolution in this country, no doubt it will be because of the stupidity of the leadership.  Or stupidity from some quarter.  For it seems as though these kids are being programmed quite well to be perfect little lefties.  A revolution along the lines that these kids are talking about would just be another disaster.

These kids are only repeating the programming that's been burned into their brains.  If there really was some independent thinking going on here, I'd be encouraged.

But there's one thing that I'm agreeing with with respect to the left.  The rich are the ones who bear the most responsibility for the rotten state of affairs that we are witnessing.  There's a great responsibility that comes with wealth and power.  It just may be the case that the wealthy are only pretending to care about the poor.  They may believe that this gives them good PR in order to avoid any backlash that may have occurred from resentment due to their privileged social position.

Most of the super rich vote for the Democrats.  When you see the Democrats voting lock step with the immigration bill and when said immigration bill does not help the working poor, you can begin to see how the Democrats are more interested in the rhetoric of helping the poor as opposed to actually doing something useful to help the poor.

Another example: Obama announces his energy plan to fight global warming.  But poor people are not fighting global warming, they are more interested in staying alive.  The so-called fight against global warming is a rich man's concern.  The ones who will foot the bill for fighting global warming won't be the rich.  For example, I read that ordinary Germans are paying three times what we pay for energy here in America.  Evidently, Obama thinks we have too good of a deal, so let's be more like Europe!  If they could, they will repeat that pattern with oil that powers autos.  But why force motorists to pay so much for fuel?  How does that help the working man?  Yet, we are told that the Europeans are supposed to be so much more egalitarian than Americans.  Evidently, their idea of egalitarianism to have everyone be equally poor.  So, why bring that punishing attitude to America?  If anything, the Europeans should bring low energy prices to their countries.  They'd be a lot better off.

Things aren't the way they appear.  Just because some political party claims to be for the working man, doesn't mean that they actually are.  Yet people buy the packaging without looking critically at what's inside.

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Oh, yeah.  Forgot to mention Obamacare.  Lol.