Article say:
"If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses," Lind says. "But if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit."
He calls this process the "Southernization" of the American economy and says it's ultimately not about racism.
"The ongoing power struggle between the local elites of the former Confederacy and their allies in other regions and the rest of the United States is not primarily about personal attitudes. It is about power and wealth," Lind wrote in an essay for Salon entitled, "The South is Holding America Hostage."
Link:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/us/conderate-flag-southern-economics/index.html
My question: Why vote southern worker for rich people?
"If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses," Lind says. "But if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit."
He calls this process the "Southernization" of the American economy and says it's ultimately not about racism.
"The ongoing power struggle between the local elites of the former Confederacy and their allies in other regions and the rest of the United States is not primarily about personal attitudes. It is about power and wealth," Lind wrote in an essay for Salon entitled, "The South is Holding America Hostage."
Link:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/us/conderate-flag-southern-economics/index.html
My question: Why vote southern worker for rich people?