by SuperNoob » Thu Apr 10, 2014 6:54 pm
No one likes you, you shouldn't even exist. For decades right wing populist media has made the poor out to be poor by choice and never delved into the root cause of poverty.
Poverty begets poverty and vilification of the poor begets a loss of self esteem and motivation, while pathways out of poverty have been closed off at a very fast pace.
The minimum wage has halved in value over the past 3 decades, while corporations just go on profiting year after year and the wealth divide is the greatest in the US over any other nation.
Nearly half the population of the US lives below the poverty line while a small fraction of the population has seen their wealth grow by 500% in real terms over the past 3 decades.
Poverty is depressing and not the luxury lifestyle depicted on right wing media, whereby they portray the victims of unchecked and unregulated free market capitalism boom and bust cycles as the cause for the problem, that they had no control in making and no say in reversing.
By planning, poor neighborhoods have the worst schools, the least security, least infrastructure, least access to government resources, the most restrictive policing and the highest level of dysfunctional lifestyles.
They have been ghettoized cut loose and abandoned by local, state and federal authorities and if not for community organizers they would have no support or place to air their grievances.
They are the forgotten, the unseen, the uncared for unless they can be used as a prop by portraying them as mass takers, when in fact everything systematically over decades has been taken from them.
The saddest part of this is that those that have far too much and those that feel moderately comfortable never meet people in total despair and never have the empathy of their but the grace of fortune, breeding or luck go I.
America has become infested by a lack of social conscience and the media is nothing more than a vessel of complicity that highlights the negatives of poverty and apportions blame on the poor, parading out walking anecdotes like the made up surfer dude who claimed he buys lobsters on food stamps.
There is no effort made to follow up this type of poverty vilification by anecdote and no stories like this one covered about the true hardship and feelings of helplessness in a nation of plenty that has found excuse not to help.
People like the author don’t want charity, they want opportunity, they want to be respected for who they are and not judged on how well they can afford to dress.
They want moments of happiness, moments of hope and moments of life that can relieve the terminal misery and boredom of life as a constant struggle, moments that most can afford to take for granted. This is all because of you, thank you.