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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Today's GOP In One Statistic [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)disregard for justice and for economic justice in particular.
The Occupy Movement was the peaceful "revolt" if you will of the left. Usually, the left in our country is very peaceful. Has been that way since the revolution of 1776.
But the right. The Southern right-wing seceded from the Union. They have been behind most of the violent rebellions in the country with the exception of the tiny, fringe movements of the left after the 1960s.
Unions have been involved in violent episodes in the past, but the violence was often perpetrated by company or police thugs.
In the past, when enough middle class people get frustrated with the social and economic injustice, something goes haywire and there can be violence. France and England have gone through this at various times as have other European countries as well as countries we think of as third world.
The essential problem is insuring enough social and economic justice or, at the very least, a sense of social and economic justice in the middle class.
That banks have paid no price for their irresponsible lending and derivatives policies while so many middle class people have lost their jobs, their homes, their businesses and the dreams of their children is a very serious matter, far more serious than our deficit problems.
Disparity in wealth. Having rich and poor is bad, but when the middle class, the creative class, is falling into poverty, a country is in decline.