And labor will learn that it is too late to make their stand now to protect the all too feeble remaining shreds of the social contract between govt and citizens: SS and Medicare. The line should have been publicly drawn on Labor Day, 2012: we will not work for your re-election, Mr. President, without your pledge that these programs are off the table in forthcoming budgetary matters. Indeed, a great labor day address should have been – delivered by labor itself not surrogates in the NYTimes lamenting the days of Henry Ford – should have included a primer in poltical economy on just how wrong the whole cliff and budget deficit analysis is…hell, James Galbraith and others on the left have laid this out already in spades, and many times….

And perhaps labor might consider this: mass shooting, mass slayings as the ultimate expression – when viewed as a phenomenon – of poltical powerlessness – of the average and lone citizen to have a greater sense of control over their lives. Each instance, of course, will have its own personal pyschological stamp, an may even be best explained in those terms. But the collective rise of this, as well as the obsessions with gun ownership, can be traced to the increasing powerlessness of the citizen in the face of mass institutions and the global economy. And is not shooting children the ultimate expression of futility: killing those least responsible for the mess this economy, this society has become.

God damn the warmongers, the Republicans, and all their Democratic enablers like Obambi.

May they die in acute pain and rot in hell.