Forum Post: Is this land still made for you and me?
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 19, 2011, 5:27 p.m. EST by sammydd17
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Woody Guthrie saw this coming years ago....
"In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple; By the relief office, I'd seen my people. As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking, Is this land made for you and me?"
A question that we should never ask ourselves however I find myself asking it everyday.
John Nichols, of the Nation Magazine has a book out called the S-Word. It talks about how socialism is all over our history. Even Emma Lazurus, who wrote the poem on the Statue of Liberty was red.
Thomas Paine was a socialist.
Walt Whitman.
Even Abe Lincoln had social leanings, like being against wage slavery.
It was never made for you and me.
we started the process of land theft the day Columbus arrived...
and it still goes on...and on...and on...
The words should be changed to "Is this land really made just for the 1%"?
I predict that the ongoing OWS Revolution is going to have an INCALCULABLE impact on the arts in America, including literature, philosophy, theology, etc.
And people will soon be saying: "The world didn't change in 2001 ! It changed in 2011 !!!"