Fight for the Working Class
Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones: €œPray for the dead and fight like hell for the living€
Mother Jones got it. Eleanor Roosevelt got it. When JFK went to Appalachia, he got it. RT at Just A Bump In The Beltway’s got it, too:
Wake up, Dems: we’ve gotta go fight for these people. Twelve people have just died in a mine that had hundreds of safety violations over the past two years, and the Bush Administration was in the mine operators’ pocket - gutting safety standards and enforcement, and hiding the results of mine safety investigations from public view.
Abramoff can wait; we ought to be raising a huge ruckus about this, right now. These are our people who got killed in that mine. The GOP isn’t gonna help them; they’re going to hope it doesn’t turn into a question of politics and accountability at all. If we don’t fight for people like this, nobody else is going to, and few are even going to notice that there’s a battle that ought to be fought. This is our battle; we as a party need to push this one to the top of the list, and keep being angry about it for long enough to hold the GOP’s feet to the fire.
If we’re not going to fight for the powerless when the powerful try to screw them over, and play games with their lives, there’s really no point in there being a Democratic Party.
Eleanor Roosevelt: “Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. ”
FDR: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ”
JFK: “Man holds in his mortal hands, the power to annihilate all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.”
Mother Jones: €œI’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser.€
January 5th, 2006 at 10:08 am
But according to feminist ideology those miners were “the powerful” simply because they had a penis:
If we€™re not going to fight for the powerless when the powerful try to screw them over, and play games with their lives, there€™s really no point in there being a Democratic Party.