Pick up any major American newspaper and you will find a business section. Turn to any American news channel and there will be a business segment. In neither will you find a labor section.
Democracy in America is confined to the ballot box. When an American leaves the small, curtained temporarily-constructed voting booth (s)he reenters the state of United Surveillance, a joint public-private venture. Every step that the American takes back to work, every mile (s)he drives is recorded. Upon arrival back at the shop, the plant, the office, (s)he leaves behind that strange, private experience of having his voice heard, her vote counted for he has no voice in his workplace, there is no voting at the job. "This is not a democracy," she is told, and it is not. For nearly every American democracy is an exercise they are permitted to engage in once every four years.
Democracy in America is confined to the ballot box. When an American leaves the small, curtained temporarily-constructed voting booth (s)he reenters the state of United Surveillance, a joint public-private venture. Every step that the American takes back to work, every mile (s)he drives is recorded. Upon arrival back at the shop, the plant, the office, (s)he leaves behind that strange, private experience of having his voice heard, her vote counted for he has no voice in his workplace, there is no voting at the job. "This is not a democracy," she is told, and it is not. For nearly every American democracy is an exercise they are permitted to engage in once every four years.
