Corporate Plutocracy Day?
A post on the FP at kos today by Laurence Lewis, (AKA Turkana) points out the obvious about Labour day, and how the intent behind it is directly the opposite to Republican dogma.
Of course, that also applies to the Harper Cons. They abhor Unions, they hate social safety nets.
We have a Pee-Em who spent years of his life working for an organization that would love to kill the unions and Healthcare and all the other things that true Canadians think are basic human rights.
The right to a living wage, the right to a safe workplace. The right to be seen by a Doctor and not have to go to the back of the line because of an inability to pay.
The Corporate owned Government of Harper that would love to install the nanny state into the bedrooms and the uteruses of the nation does not want us to have any opportunities to climb the ladder.
They want to protect the corporate interests at any costs, and that is the constituency they are working for.
They do get some help with that though from some unwitting accomplices....
Why are some so determined to vote against their own interests? I have my personal theory that some Harpercon supporters are simply inherited, like with religion some follow their parents. But these are not your Fathers conservatives.
The supposed "elites" on the left are also cast as evil do-ers; An article on the BBC a few months ago:
Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different:
"You vote to strike a blow against elitism and you receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our life times, workers have been stripped of power, and CEOs are rewarded in a manner that is beyond imagining.
"It's like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy."
Some are just too lazy to look further than the cozy Authoritarian rhetoric. They want to be kept"safe" from unreported crime.
And some think that if things are not going too badly for them? Well then screw everyone else.
Labour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.
For some, (many) that is now 12 hours a day for work at a couple part time jobs, 4 hours to struggle to catch up on the housework and play with the kids, an hour to worry over the bills, an hour parked in front of the teevee and a few hours to sleep.
Today is Labour day. The other 364 are already Corporate Plutocracy Day.
