Joel Berry
@JoelWBerry
The boring, white, middle-class, Christian people are the ones paying the taxes, following the rules, having the kids and actually raising them, funding city services, funding welfare programs, building businesses, hiring workers, and generally keeping society alive right now.
10:06 AM · Jan 16, 2024
Knowledge And Faith🐊🇺🇸
@LBR_TY
Makes me think of Sumner’s speech in 1883:
“Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-- but he always pays--yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on. He contributes to the strength of parties. He is flattered before election. He is strongly patriotic. He is wanted, whenever, in his little circle, there is work to be done or counsel to be given. He may grumble some occasionally to his wife and family, but he does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten. He is a commonplace man. He gives no trouble. He excites no admiration. He is not in any way a hero (like a popular orator); or a problem (like tramps and outcasts); nor notorious (like criminals); nor an object of sentiment (like the poor and weak); nor a burden (like paupers and loafers); nor an object out of which social capital may be made (like the beneficiaries of church and state charities); nor an object for charitable aid and protection (like animals treated with cruelty); nor the object of a job (like the ignorant and illiterate); nor one over whom sentimental economists and statesmen can parade their fine sentiments (like inefficient workmen and shiftless artisans). Therefore, he is forgotten. All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.”
https://swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/AIH19th/Sumner.Forgotten.html10:11 AM · Jan 16, 2024
