Bourgeois Democracy and Working Class Despair


	Bourgeois Democracy and Working Class Despair

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12-22-2007 5:22 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/807e0a9a-534a-4eef-bee2-b832266d8ec7/22677317-17E1-4DF6-B035-FBDD03644348/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.edstrong.blog-city.com/the_alienated_workingclass_male.htm" href="http://www.edstrong.blog-city.com/the_alienated_workingclass_male.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.edstrong.blog-city.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edstrong.blog-city.com/the_alienated_workingclass_male.htm"><H1>Many of these pickup-truck driving young men,<P> at least in my experience, </P><P>are increasingly depressed,</P><P> bored, angry, and frightened</P><P> They use their fair share of psychiatric drugs</P><P> as well as alcohol and dope </P><P>to take the edge off of their pain</P></H1><P><IMG src="http://files.blog-city.com/files/aa/2370/p/f/bush_pick_up_blue_collar.jpg" /></P><P><B>Privileged prick plays at being blue-collar in his pick-up</B></P><P></P><H2>The "growth jobs" in Ohio and throughout<P> most of America are cashiers, </P><P>janitors, clerks, servers, and security guards</P><P> Meanwhile, the "growth diversions" to the pain</P><P> and boredom of low-paying, meaningless work are</P><P> (in addition to alcohol and psychotropic drugs) </P><P>casinos, lotteries, and all-you-can-eat troughs</P></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edstrong.blog-city.com/the_alienated_workingclass_male.htm"> The problem with today’s democracy, and with the dominant view of democracy in our society, is that it is far too limited.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edstrong.blog-city.com/the_alienated_workingclass_male.htm">The capitalist class can live with political democracy, with the election of parliaments and governments, because the decisive levers of power do not lie there.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/22677317-17E1-4DF6-B035-FBDD03644348/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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