(#6201) Minnesota is the blueprint

      I heard a nearing middle aged colleague at work after finishing his lunch say, and not in a flippant way, "well back to the plantation". Someone said his name in a shocked kind of way which stopped him and then he said this. The owners of the company make millions while we the workers make pennies. How is that not a plantation? His comment has stuck with me for a week now and it is still rolling around in my head. Not that I haven't known some form of definition like this for most of my life but because he is a man of color and his perspective demanded a thoughtful consideration. I know it is different than when slavery ruled and people were treated as property. Yet the analogy is to me overwhelming.
     I know he said those words out of frustration due to his own work ethic and a much less than comfortable pay. For me though it struck a chord because it was a statement that any one of my colleagues could have made and been perfectly correct within the sentiment. We the working middle poor class are a tool that to the wealthy have convinced themselves have no spirit or soul within us. Just a need to survive. So they toss us pocket change while placing the folding money into their wallets. After what Minnesota showed us yesterday the wealthy have got to be on high alert. I have been calling for months for a work stoppage all over America to show the wealthy and their trump led political cabal that we the people are the real power in America.
     We have seen similar results in other countries where the flooding of the streets amid work stoppage has changed political administrations. There is no doubt in my mind that a similar approach will do the same. There will be a death throe by those in power but it won't be long before the throe turns into capitulation. We the people together are the mightiest force on our planet all we need to do is to prepare ourselves for it then demand a new beginning. One where we the people are not drudging through life on empty promises and pocket change. We can do this just like Minnesota did yesterday!