Class Warfare & the Protests

Over the last thirty years, we've seen the American manufactures and the working class gutted by politicians and their masters, the corporations. In the mid 1930's we saw a rise in Unions across the U.S.,the UAW expanded their worker members from 30,000 to 500,000 in a year. From this collective strike (began in the Auto industry) covered workers from all areas such as busboys, garment workers, longshoreman, and a number of other occupations that had never seen union activity before, experienced the benefits, meaning working for a livable wage, and a chance for a livable future for their families. All this was demolished by NAFTA, the government approving GM and other major manufactures to re-establish in Mexico. As a result, middle America looks like a third world country, and the common working stiff has zero options and zero rights. Trump promised that manufacturing would return to the U.S., but like everything he's promised, he lied.

The nation-wide protests across America began with the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman. This then up-graded to BLM, though the underlying rage is economic, that has been magnified by Covid 19.

America's corporate system, politicians valuing big business over their constituents became clear with the Care Act, revealing the biggest transference of wealth to the top 1% in world history.

Even today, the U.S. government is balking on extending stimulus aid in the form of unemployment benefits and small business support. All the while, Trump is sending his secret police to cities, and harassing peaceful protesters in those cities; this is merely a ploy at showing himself as the “law and order” president, because he is not addressing the real issues.

The country is literally dying from a pandemic, (the largest cases and deaths world-wide); unemployment is at Depression levels, and millions of people are about to be evicted because they are unable to pay rent. What does Trump do, send his storm Troopers in to crack the heads of innocent moms, 100 pound girls, and old Vietnam vets, claiming they're anti -fa. When in fact, a small minority of these protesters are actually violent, and the majority are peaceful.

This reminds me of pre WWI America, sometime in the 1910's, when the railway and manufacturing workers attempted to strike for better wages and living conditions. The big business leaders hired their own armies to go in a quash the strikes, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of men, women and children.

While main stream media and the government turn these protests into merely a thug-feast, turning it into a cultural issue, turning the people against each other, in truth, it is a citizenry who have had enough of police violence against blacks, and the extreme unequal separation of wealth between the oligarchs and the working class. This separation has been widening for a long time, particularly sense the Clinton administration.

While the elites blame China, Russia, socialism, etc., the real problem is neoliberalism and corporatism, ignoring the working classes. Governments always lie, and with the help of the MSM are continuing to spread misinformation to avert our eyes from the real problem: the utter corruption of our leaders and their criminal collusion with the corporations.

The irony is the fact that nothing has really changed in the last one hundred years. Like the Big-Capitalist-Bosses of the early 1910's, Trump too is sending in “his”army to quell unrest and calling it something else, over a problem the government created in the first place.

Rather than fight each other, right against left, conservative/liberal, Fox news/MSNBC – we should be fighting the governments decisions, and creating a real democracy. Because, really, the United States is anything but a democracy. Face it, Biden was placed by the DNC to run against Trump; the people had nothing to do with this farce.

These protests are about a lot more than police violence against African Americans. It has become a true class upheaval against a greedy oligarchy.

In one way or another, something's got to give.