We are now right in the middle of the class war. Feeling the potshots yet? The wage disparity, loss of job security and benefits, the shredding of the social safety nets?
If you are not?
Wait. It will come.
In the US this slow motion train wreck has been coming since before Reagan was elected. The election of Obama which was hailed by so many who were hoping that change was coming, has seemingly only enabled the GOP even further. The Democratic party has also shifted away from it’s support of unions and working people in the last 30 years. They are now working for Wall Street, the moneyed interests.
Anti worker legislation, gutting public education and services, protecting the health insurance companies, corporate tax cuts, voter suppression……and much much more.
But for a real look at who is holding the strings, let me introduce you to ALEC.
American Legislative Exchange Council.