Even the pearl of democratic culture, the middle class,
deserves especial blame for abandoning the nation's cities, bankrolling suburban
sprawl and dissolving the bonds of community in both suburb and the inner city.
Having abandoned the urban community and depleted the tax base for education
and public health; having capitalized on cheap farmland destruction and city-subsidized living costs such as energy, water, and transportation, the middle class
suburban hypocrites indignantly demand welfare cuts, more prison construction
and stiffer criminal penalties for the dispossessed communities they have left
behind. The suburban middle class has utterly betrayed and sold out the very
common cultural wealth that liberated their grandparents and great-grandparents
(and themselves) from poverty; they have gotten theirs and left, exploiting and
abandoning the idea of community.
We can justifiably blame our crisis on the capitalist, who has
declared democracy his enemy and deliberately corrupted its officials; a
mercenary who believes what benefits him; a financial athelete with no sense of
honor or fairness, driven by avarice or pathological cowardice, a hypocrite who
regards public discourse as public relations, a money addict who poisons the air,
water, and land for an extra nickel, a janus face who exploits people, nature,
democracy, and reason itself as raw material to feed his greed or satisfy his
superiors, all in the service of Disneyesque personal security needs.
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