About 40 years ago, when I started journalism, I was regularly told that the scourge between the poor and the rich was about to fall apart. This was particularly the case at press conferences by the trade unions or even by an LSAP, which was then in opposition, but who could still count on voting votes from the ranks of the working environment. The subject has been repeatedly sporadically attacked in recent decades, including and above all by a CARITAS. The gap between the scissors has no doubt increased dramatically at one point: the people who own a house or more houses became millionaires overnight. Real estate prices have exploded! And it’s also true, to the contrary: if one could once buy a big house for 4 million francs, thus for 100,000 euros (which was naturally more money than today), then you must now in that same city, in the same quarter like 10 times as many pages on the table. 40 years ago, a craftsman still could play a really nice house, but he is often left there, with his finger in his mouth.
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do not want to go into this detail in more detail about the growing discrepancy between the poor and the rich; I am interested in another scissor in our society that is at least as dangerous, namely the scissors between the so-called establishment and the man of the road (of course, can also be a woman). The upper class arrogantly complies with the fact that the lower ones, ie the footwork, feel subdued or abandoned. The best example of the last year was, as in the campaign for the “yes” and the “no” in the referendum, the employer wanted to predict how the people would vote. The result was a failure! 80 percent for the “no”! The people took revenge on “die da top”. Well, the establishment, and especially those who think it belongs, has been fully renewed for over 20 years. Certain questions have been raised that may sometimes be of interest to the development of our society, but how often can it be even adopted by the everyday life of the Otto-Normal consumer? When the miller valley is under water, people talk about their suffering for two days, but of course no one thought to speak to these people before the disaster to understand how difficult it was for them, having to do so with little money to understand that these people, by virtue of their situation, have a different mindset, is much more terre-à-terre. In Germany, a cleansing woman brought Martin Schulz to the head in the election campaign for a number of years, and this was the case. Cleaning woman back to the placard. You see yourself in 4 years again! Or has there only been one report this summer on workers who have to mix concrete at 37 degrees? Nada! They may be happy to have a job, dear!
The man or woman in the street is only taken out of the lane every few years when democracy calls for the urn. Then they’ll think that without knowing them these people will get away with it. The main thing is that a cross is painted in the right place. However, that game no longer holds true for a few years: in the United States, he was elected president, from Rooserei to the establishment; both in Italy and in Germany, an AFD is about as strong as an SPD; yet not all of these potential voters have fascism in their DNA.
Lügenpresse! I was initially apprehensive about this term, couldn’t immediately begin something like that. However, as the press is forced to regularly come into contact with the establishment such as politicians, employers, trade bosses etc., the press is being pushed into the same depths, even more so where journalists can quickly start to deal with the mentality and problems of workers. and craftsmen and, accordingly, rather rarely write or talk about them. I was disastrous last year when I had to realize that not a single journalist knew right away about the unqualified minimum wage! If you do not know this and are only reproducing the opinions of someone else’s employer or politician, then you will not have to wonder when the ball is shot back from the people! And this development in society is dangerous, even explosive for years!!
