Violent Revolution is Inevitable

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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17...he-outrage

Where the Hell Is the Outrage?


Middle-class wages are stagnant. Uemployment is stalled at record levels. College education is leading to debt servitude and job insecurity. Millions of unemployed Americans have essentially been abandoned by their government. Poverty is soaring. Bankers break the law with impunity, are bailed out, and go on breaking the law, richer than they were before.

And yet, bizarrely, the only Americans who seem to be seething with anger are the beneficiaries of this economic injustice – the wealthiest and most privileged among us. But those who are suffering seem strangely passive.

As Paolo Friere said: “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”