Reply #33: The Class War continues

[Puget Progressive]

It would be very instructive to read either of the two books left to us by the late (and great) Joe Bageant. I recommend starting with "Deer Hunting with Jesus". In his books and many essays on the website devoted to his work Joe elaborated on what it was like to grow up in Amerika's permanent underclass, now 40+ million strong. Yes, we HAVE been sold out by a shameless and criminal oligarchy and their stooges in Congress and the courts. The Middle Class (which I grew up in) was an aberration and it will not come back despite all of the BS rhetoric about the "recovery". Take the time to read Joe Bageant and learn about these people's lives. Ironically, it is they who will now have less of a hard time adjusting to the permanent recession that is being engineered for the great majority of us who are being shut out of the "American Dream".