Sunday, July 5, 2020

PUNKNG THE AMERICAN BLUE COLLAR WORKER, TRUMP STYLE. (‘RISE UP’, ‘UPTON SINCLAIR!)

This is short just to get it said NOW!

Can we believe it? Just how twisted can Trump get? Apparently really twisted and dark.

In 21c America, DT wanted to force American meat packer workers to go back to work before the Pandemic had abated? Trump appealed to patriotism in the face of the enemy, Coronavirus 19 ... just as his supporters appealed to America’s seniors to refuse treatment in order to cull us of weaker citizens thus achieving an imagined ‘herd immunity’ sooner ... and get the economy (read, Wall Street) sooner.

Plus, threaten the workers whose good judgement said “NO!”  (in the face of no vaccine and no assurances that they will have protective equipment while on the job). with loss of still-active unemployment payments!

Plus, requiring said workers to sign papers absolving meat packing companies and executives from accountability if the workers caught the virus on the job?

Plus, not requiring said workers to wear masks or practice on-the-job distancing? Or require the companies to provide this protective equipment!

Unbelievable1

America under Trump has regressed to the 1920’s meat-packing scandals written about so damningly by Upton Sinclair in his 1906 novel, The Jungle.  ‘The Jungledepicts the deplorable life, status and working conditions of the American meat packing worker (which led to the establishment of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA,1906) making it a crime to adulterate.or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food and to assure sanitary conditions to make these products)
 “...poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. 
A review by the writer Jack London called it "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery."[3]
Again, America, a ‘Ship of Fools’! Where has Trump led America to?


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