Reply #50: it is brilliant [View All]

[William Z. Foster]

I do this as well, and while it seems small and insignificant I am convinced that it is very powerful. Those following and interested and knowledgeable about politics are disproportionately from the upper middle class, educated professionals and intellectuals, and there is a bias that causes people to not see, to look right through most of the people they encounter.

I was talking with a Green party advocate from the Bay area once, telling him that there was a bias in the party from the fact that the group was largely upper middle class. He said "you don't know this area, it is mostly software engineers and other professionals here, so that is why the Green party in this location is made up of those people."

I told him that I know the area well, and I also knew that even there someone was washing the windows, cleaning the offices, emptying the trash, mowing the lawns, driving cab, repairing the cars, waiting on tables, cooking the food, laying the brick, fixing the plumbing, tarring the roofs, stocking the shelves, mopping the floors, scrubbing the toilets, doing the laundry, driving truck, working the warehouse, ringing the cash register, and hundreds of other essential jobs. He literally could not wee those people, did not take them into account.