We still have slaves; we just don't call them that. What do you think of those who hire large numbers of illegals, pay them peanuts, and keep them from bitching (or even leaving) with the implied threat of turning them in to ICE?
If you had not made this post I would have. Took the words right out of my thoughts. I was totally thinking the same thing.
And here's a parallel thought.
We are all still slaves.
We are slaves to capitalism.
It is ironic how so many people are so afraid of big brother, government snooping into their lives, running their lives.
Now we can see the real threat was capitalism. We have these giant corporations that are so powerful they tell government what to do. They are more powerful than either political party. That was completely apparent during the creation of Obamacare. Big insurance and big pharma TOLD government how it was going to be. No, there was not to be any public option. That was taken off the table. Our president was dictated to. He was told to take that off the table and he had to comply, he had no choice. He was told if you take it off the table we will support what you are doing. If you do not, then we will kill it. And he knew they had that power. He had to do as he was told.
The only way we could stand up to such power is for both parties to unite against it.
And that is why the power is being used to keep us bitterly divided so that will never happen.