Sounds a little (union!) old-school, yet the ability to address deep points and make them a rallying cry is powerful. Threepenny: Mamet, Workers and Managers:
Now, the issues confronting our country are serious, but they are all resolvable, and resolvable in an atmosphere of cooperation. How do I know? Because I've seen it, and you've seen it, at work.
We have been conditioned to huff and puff ourselves about political questions, and characterize those who disagree as fools—but we may discuss these same questions with our fellow workers, around the water cooler, at lunch, over a drink, and in that discussion we find that, rather than proclaiming our own view, we want to know what the other fellow thinks, and, after listening, may find some possibility of consensus. Why? Because we are looking for consensus. At work we recognize that we are going to have to live with those who disagree, and that therefore there must and will be some accommodation.
We know this at work—why do we forget it in politics?
Because it is in the interest of management to keep the workers divided.
I am not a Marxist. I do not believe that the corporation is, per se, bad. I do not believe that capital is, per se, bad. I believe that the corporation, like any powerful entity, will, unchecked, progress toward tyranny, and that it must be kept in check.
Good stuff. The identification of the Bush/Republican regime and rampant Corporatism is potent.
Booyakashaaa. That's an applause-line, people.
