tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post4516735104997162878..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESESUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-32294678621354087002008-06-23T23:28:00.000-04:002008-06-23T23:28:00.000-04:00Sandwichman, thanks for posting this article and l...Sandwichman, thanks for posting this article and link! How wonderful to be able to download such an interesting book.<BR/><BR/>I notice in the opening paragraph the writer asks: "what might have been the present condition of American democracy if there had been no race issue and its irrepressible conflict?"<BR/><BR/>I was asking myself that same question earlier in the week when I came across the story of the Oklahoma race riots of 1921 where over 300 people were killed and over 800 people admitted to hospital for injuries. The black hospitals were burnt to the ground.<BR/><BR/>According to the article, around the time of these riots the general (struggling) populace had lost faith with the governing Democrats because the party had breached important election promises. so popular support began to lean heavily toward the socialists. <BR/><BR/>Then, apparently, came the rising influence of the Ku Klux Klan. <BR/><BR/>Is there any surer way of dividing the ordinary people in their vote. To divide them on the basis of race? [I know that it is not a terribly original question or conclusion but it's now clearer to me why the United States is such an incredibly 'capitalist' country by comparison with Australia. The race and religion card seems to have been played so much more successfully.]<BR/><BR/>TWENTIETH-CENTURY OKLAHOMA<BR/>http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TW001.htmlMyrtle Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427043367624101075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-59358610686814226862008-06-21T20:10:00.000-04:002008-06-21T20:10:00.000-04:00«There is time after eight hours' labor»The idea t...«There is time after eight hours' labor»<BR/><BR/>The idea that work lasts only 8 hours is often just a dream. I know many people who are cannot afford or are not allowed to work only eight hours a day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com