Reply #29: Yep, think so too [View All]

[Jose Diablo]

the struggles the working people had to go through to get even the basic needs to survive have all but been forgotten, down the memory hole as those that fought are mostly now dead.

I wonder if high school history even mentions what happened in places like mining towns in Colorado and West Virgina. What the railroad workers had to do. The steel workers, meat packing workers, auto workers, textiles, the longshoreman, teamsters could tell some tales. But the ones that had to fight for these worker rights for the most part are now gone. All thats left is just words in a book that for the most part, few students even want to read or try to understand what really happened.

It's all about class war, always has been. But the working stiffs have been put to sleep and have forgotten what they are up against.

I am afraid that what it will take to relearn those hard lessons is a return to the days and conditions that caused the formation of unions.

The wealthy won this round, but the fight never ends. It goes back and forth, forever. There will be another day.