I believe the blue collar workers are the backbone of any nation. It’s time politicians and corporations and entire systems stopped lying to them and stop treating them with contempt.
We listen as political policies are passed that hurt the working class,  hurt them, even as the politician is telling them he’s going to “save” their jobs, even when he or she KNOWS that many of those jobs are phasing out and investors are NOT investing in them.. even when they KNOW that automation means those jobs will NOT be around this time next year…even when they KNOW technology will end their last century jobs, that those jobs will be outsourced to other places where labor is cheap because life is cheaper.
These workers who get up every day and go to thankless jobs, earning ever-stagnating wages, and losing buying power due to economic games played by politicians and investors are the REAL heroes of my world.. they deserve better than they are getting, and one of the things they deserve is truth- and the education to comprehend the game played on them and reject it. And importantly, they know it, too.

The Forgotten Man

I gave you everything I had, but it was not enough.
I gave you all the ripest fruit- you said the pulp was tough.
I gave my blood that you might live and take away a crown-
I have to wonder now if I was just your naive clown.

To read the rest of this poem, see link to The Twilight Mirror and the New Dawn by Jordan Amar

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