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'Middle class' to melt away at political conventions
Morning In America (2011) by Ligorano/Reese.
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And this final note. We've heard a lot in recent years about the disappearing middle class. Well, anyone attending either the Republican or Democratic National Conventions will be able to watch it happen.
The artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese plan to install ice sculptures, weighing in at more than 2,000 pounds, with the words "middle class" in four-foot-tall letters.
The conventions are in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C., meaning they will of course disappear in the heat. While the real middle class may be taking years to melt away, the sculptures will take anywhere from six to 24 hours.
With both the Republican and Democratic Parties controlled by corporate politicians bent on pushing labor costs down to maximize shareholder profits, the ice sculptures are appropriate. Corporate Third Way Democrats are giddy with their accomplishments of these few decades, tearing down all of labor and poverty gains all under the guise of the Democratic Party Platform. It takes a lot of deception and law-breaking to get there, but they did.
The trick for corporate Democrats now that the voters know what they are up to is to maintain the grip on party leadership. They have done a great job inserting a farm team in the states, capturing local and state election systems to keep their incumbents in office but I think that a first world population will be a hard group to subjugate especially in the internet age. I predict the turnaround to progressive politics as quickly as a decade as baby boomers steeped in revolution will retire to a new hobby!
