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 Repeating …. How #USA got here 

WWII sent off boys from the farm. 
Lucky men came home 
Many were heartbroken 
Fractured souls & altered minds
Attempted to claim their peace 
Of the American dream
Honoring their fallen friends & respect 
Back to school they went
Educated now birthed the middle class

But wait! Political interests 
Quickly engaged by the bags of money 
Force fed by marketing 
They can’t take **our** money 
Peasants can’t hold status 
Wealthy lived in privilege 
They didn’t want only their income
Sought to destroy others 
How to do so they asked? 
Nixon

     Reagan- Nom- Icks 
Manipulating others to hate Ebonics 
     Dose them with sugar water 
anti-union laws pushed 
     The poor are lesser humans 
Take away their pensions 
      Less educated masses 
Wealth force-fed the regulations 
      Dumb, deaf or blind 🇺🇸 stayed 
Going to church on Sunday 
    And more loose taxes for the power 
But God only knows the hour 😂
     Hypocrisy!!!

USA unaware of 
Evil pulling the strings. 
Peacemakers spoke 
As always 
Powerfully silenced. 

Then the - isms
Keep the pawns fighting amongst theirselves 
Religion, class, race and sex
Divided caste chattel is US society
We’ve bought into “freedom” ideology 
“Let them eat fast food.”
We ignore or berate those unlike us. 
This keeps us constantly wrestling 

Inspired by this I saw on Reddit. Wish I had persons name to credit them. 

A growing middle class, presented a poltical danger to the interests of the wealthy, it's growth took away from their status and privilege, so it had to be both shrunk and turned against the the lower class.

Nixon started it, Reagan perfected it with anti-union laws, demonizing the poor, slashing pensions, underfunding education and loosing the taxes and regulations on corporations.

Classism, Sexism, Racism and Religion are all used to further seperate working class Americans, who have more in common than not,  and to give them someone to focus their anger and blame on, when their own upward mobility stalls; all the while the rich get richer.

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