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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 09:05 AM Sep 2014

Business Community Views Labor And Wage Activists As Economic Terrorists To Be Treated As Such

I feel cynical about labor and wage protests. The odds are against meaningful progress and these activists are viewed as terrorists and will likely be treated like the Occupy movement was. I am sure the RW and its law enforcement allies will paint these workers as Marxist Leninist troublemakers. After all if you are pro worker in this country you are essentially labeled a communist. Nothing has changed the same label was used in the 1920's and 1930's.

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Business Community Views Labor And Wage Activists As Economic Terrorists To Be Treated As Such (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Sep 2014 OP
Or it's at least the narrative they're trying to turn into conventional wisdom Populist_Prole Sep 2014 #1
And the danger to the business community is that if they call us that long enough we will become jwirr Sep 2014 #2

Populist_Prole

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1. Or it's at least the narrative they're trying to turn into conventional wisdom
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 12:01 PM
Sep 2014

The questions is where the curves in the graph are going to cross. That is; if the business community's corrosive effects on the hoi-polloi get to the point where even the densest in the latter group start barking up the correct tree before the former group can seize absolute power. It's gonna' be close.

The dynamic and your observations are duly noted. I just can't believe how clearly stark the differences in the PTB's reactions were between OWS and the Bundy ranch situation.

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