A SHORT HISTORY OF RIGHT WING DESTRUCTION

I watch a lot of old TV shows from the 50's and 60's.  In shows like Leave It to Beaver the family is happy and middle class.  The mother is a stay at home mother, the dad wears a nice suit, they have a nice two story home and a late model car, and life goes pretty smoothly.

We know that Leave It to Beaver wasn't real life.  It didn't show racial segregation or poverty or the mind-numbing existence of working in an office or factory.  But what is sad is that the working life has gotten worse since the Leave It to Beaver days.

Treaties like NAFTA were supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.  It was an achievement for all those people who pound their chests and yodel in praise of the free market.  But the free market exacts an awful price on working people.  It is capital seeking the cheapest labor and the cheapest resources to make the maximum profit for corporations and the very rich.

It means salaries and wages have eroded.  It means worker rights have decreased.  It means security has become just a memory.  It means being a cog in the great free market machine, ready to be discarded in a moment.

More to come