M: Dude! You
were asking earlier about what diverse realities are shaping our lives on Main
Street. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine address these diverse realities on Main
Street wisely and reinforce their visionary proposals against the backdrop of
empowering lives like ours. We are the working poor and must also understand
that as blue collar workers, it is up to us to move out of the hate and
bitterness of today’s Republican Party rhetoric and propaganda and embrace Hillary
Clinton and Tim Kaine’s offers that they have judiciously placed on the
bargaining table for US to evaluate and hold them accountable with once and for
all. Their Republican opponents do not share their perspectives on how they
will shape the future for the betterment of all, not just the privileged few,
because the fact is that the Republican Party members are the representatives
of the privileged few themselves.
D: Man! And
the American Press Corps and the International Press Corps are infiltrated by
the very same mechanics as the Republican Party, which favor the status quo
while going against the best interests of the working poor and the middle
class. Even Public Television in the United States is not independent of big
business! Do you know how many times I’ve read the names of the Koch Brothers
and financiers like them having contributed to making public television
broadcasts like Sesame Street and Nova possible. But these very same financiers
are feeding US and the World with propaganda through media while annihilating
the possibility of US and the World accomplishing not just our dreams but day-to-day
goals with legislation like the duplicitous voter fraud and right to work arguments
they have purposely financed by buying congressional Republicans and the
American Press Corps to keep competition out of the marketplace.
M: Dude! In
order to keep competition out, big businesses have reduced the worth of the
American worker to that of workers toiling in the third world for scant wages.
The American voter must be mobilized and registered to vote in this election
cycle in order for American workers to not lose their capacity to dream big or their
core humanity tied to their incredibly ingenuous work ethic, which is brought
up by President Abraham Lincoln in his first annual message to Congress on December
3, 1861 and available online at UC Santa Barbara’s The American Presidency
Project under the collection titled Messages
and Papers of the Presidents. It reads as follows,
It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be
made in favor of popular institutions, but there is one point, with its
connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention.
It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor
in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in
connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning
capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is
next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus
induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it
without their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that
all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it
is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for
life.
Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed,
nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition
of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from
them are groundless.
Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between
labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the
whole labor of community exists within that relation. A few men own capital,
and that few avoid labor themselves, and with their capital hire or buy another
few to labor for them. A large majority belong to neither class--neither work
for others nor have others working for them. In most of the Southern States a
majority of the whole people of all colors are neither slaves nor masters,
while in the Northern a large majority are neither hirers nor hired. Men, with
their families--wives, sons, and daughters--work for themselves on their farms,
in their houses, and in their shops, taking the whole product to themselves,
and asking no favors of capital on the one hand nor of hired laborers or slaves
on the other. It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons mingle
their own labor with capital; that is, they labor with their own hands and also
buy or hire others to labor for them; but this is only a mixed and not a
distinct class. No principle stated is disturbed by the existence of this mixed
class.
Again, as has already been said, there is not of necessity any such
thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. Many
independent men everywhere in these States a few years back in their lives were
hired laborers. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages
awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then
labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new
beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which
opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and
improvement of condition to all. No men living are more worthy to be trusted
than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught
which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political
power which they already possess, and which if surrendered will surely be used
to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new
disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost.
D: Man!
Inherited wealth schemers like the Koch Brothers and inherited wealth
charlatans like Donald Trump want to reduce the United States of America to a
regime, not the republic envisioned in the United States Constitution. American
voters must remember that they have a decision to make in this presidential
election cycle, between their own well-being as expressed through the
commitments made by Clinton and Kaine in their book Stronger Together: A Blueprint for America’s Future, or their
disparity and ruination by electing Donald Trump or throwing their vote away by
casting their ballots for any of the third-party candidates.
M: Dude! The
United States of America’s worth and wealth rest in the hands of the American
Voter! American futures rest on whether American Voters registered and cast
their ballots in this presidential election cycle. Hillary Clinton and Tim
Kaine’s book, the blueprints that they are willingly holding themselves responsible
for accomplishing on our behalf, is being blocked from television broadcasts
and being dismissed as nationalist in nature in online forums. The criticisms
fall apart because the truth surfaces as you read the critics that they haven’t
even read Clinton and Kaine’s book!
(TO BE CONTINUED...)
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