Reply #57: Nope, I have to recognize I was fascinated when I first learned that [View All]

If you also think about it, in its "cowboy" incarnation, the term still implies a fairly elitist amount of contempt towards those performing manual labor. In fact chances are that whoever started perverting the term "red neck" to refer to cowboys working on the ranch, was some city slicker socialite who completely missed the point of the 10 gallon hat. ;-)


It is astounding how much American labor had to struggle, and how most of their achievements have all but been neutralized. It took them a century, but I'll be damned if the elites have not been wildly successful at it. For example, May Day is regarded as "pinko commie treason" day in the US. But in most countries in the industrialized world it has been their "labor day" for a while, among other things in order to celebrate a massacre of American labor organizers at the hands of corporate thugs. This is, the rest of the world is celebrating American labor, while we are so ashamed of their achievements that we celebrate our "own" labor in September 1st not May 1st like the rest of the world does.

Unfortunately, their PR efforts work very well because they have total control of the message. A similar tragedy happened a few years ago, involving the same mine owner. And well, nothing really happened. The guy was not only still in business, but he gets to finance the teabaggers.