Monday, December 5, 2011

Was Charles Dickens actually writing about the future of America?

It seems to me the current social and financial infrastructure of America is slipping back into a moment in time where we were three hundred years ago. A historical time taken from old England of the sixteenth and seventeenth Century. Perhaps a feudal or Oligarchy system. A stratified societal structure often written about in a Charles Dickens novel. Ruled by the few and privileged. Leaving a small merchant middles class and a significantly large and poor working
Under class.

And we are talking about early American settlers escaping from a suppressive social system back in the motherland of old England. People trying to run away from brutal overlords whose only interest was to luxuriate in their posh counting houses and continue to enslave the poor. Making their selfish obscene gains on the backs of impoverished workers. Workers who had no education, no rights, no privileges, and living in the worse living conditions. Poor people in bad health with a very short life.

I am afraid that is where we could be headed now. It appears we middle class folk are now slipping down that slope once again. Repeating history. And, if we don’t pay close attention, we Americans will be right back where our ancestors started. Trying to escape a feudal system whose weight is on the back of the poor. Have we heard this scenario from times past? Is there another country to where we can escape? Or is this worry necessary? Can this too be stopped? Can we reform and change government? Most of all change congress? What do you think?

God help us and God bless us all, everyone.

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