It’s been close to 30 years since I departed high school.
Departed, not graduated. After quickly and quietly obtaining my G.E.D, I loosed
myself upon the world to make my way by hook or by crook. Spending a good
number of years traveling the country, working various jobs – cabinet shops,
laminate shops, furniture shops, frame shops, sheet metal shops, a few
restaurants on the side. I took my first foreman position at 22. I took my
first failed shot at self-employment at 24. It’s been a long, tumultuous trip
from the beginning of the adventure that is my adult working life to now; I’ve
been with one primary employer for ten years, I take private clients and
contracts, not single, an average house, (with a nice hardwood floor) a wife,
couple of cars and a yard. Pretty much you’re average American life at just
above the median American income for a family of four, but without the
financial draw of the two kids.
This is, in part
why a screed by Mike Rowe struck a particularly resonant chord with me today,
in his response to a…how shall I phrase this…complete shit head Tweet by the
Sanders campaign today.
The DNC and the self styled white knights of the hardscrabble, the great
unwashed, are (and always have been) duplicitous, mealy mouthed, snake oil
salesmen when it comes to their pandering to “the working class.” For votes,
the language used when pushing legislation or public policy initiatives, when
attempting to mollycoddle and stroke the sooty heads of the downtrodden. The
party leaders and policy wonks draw the disenfranchised and susceptible into
their mobile canvass chapels by preaching sermons of secular salvation from
suffering in terms of envy, of inequity, of blame, of vengeance.
How does this claptrap, based upon a pseudo intellectual
construct that without your benevolent aid and ethereal visions of what an
appropriate level of post secondary education should or could be, (never mind
that you, nor any of your toadies in the grievance mafia, ever come to the
point of explaining the term “free,” be it in terms of education, healthcare,
or social services of any and all flavors) how does any of this pabulum elevate
or assist in the condition, spirit, or motivation of anyone? How does
constructing a net of mutual and statutorily enforced dependence upon my
neighbor and my neighbor upon me accomplish anything but guaranteeing that all
boats stay moored to the dock?
But I digress…
The thing that chaffs my ass is how you bigots of perceived (lack of) intellect impugn, malign, and attack the ways, the means, and abilities of the common
man, the blue collar worker at each and every opportunity for three out of
every four years (and half the time every fourth year) then anticipate that
your castigations will be forgiven and forgotten when you hang piñatas filled
with empty promises at the fundraiser. Worse yet are those partygoers that put
on the blindfold and take that giggling swing in hopes of that sweet spill of
payout. Elsewhere at the party; the chatter is the standard, glib, new
urbanist, sustainable, socially just blather about the ills inflicted upon the
environment and reason by the troglodyte flat Earth crowd.
Suffice it to say that I'm approaching TL;DR territory. In part two, I shall deconstruct, exactly, how the disperate collection of allied authoritarians in waiting really do despise middle America, the working class and how the promise of "free" post secondary education is being used as a tool to attack and dismantle the American middle class.
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