The more things change, the more they stay the same in Sweet Home Alabama

Five African Alabama workers say they were ordered to vote republican and President Obama was threatend at their workplace here in the land of cotton. Talk about a hostile working enviroment. Thank goodness we don't have to depend on the *ahem* traditional media to keep us informed about what's happening in Dixie besides the so called Bingo/democratic culture of corruption and cronyism *snark*. God forbid the MSM investigate and report on some some real cronyism and corruption.
H/T Deep Harm

Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 08:41:34 AM PDT
In recently filed lawsuits, five black employees of Altec Industries, in Birmingham, Alabama, say they were ordered to attend a rally at the firm for Sen. Jeff Sessions (Republican) in October 2008, were given pre-marked ballots, and ordered to vote Republican.

The workers add, in separate federal complaints, that when Barack Obama was elected president, "an employee drew cross hairs or a target on a picture of President Obama and posted it in the workplace." (Courthouse News, October 18, 2010)
Altec is described as a "holding company for a global manufacturer of aerial lifts, digger derricks, truck-mounted cranes and specialty equipment for the electric utility, telecom and contractor industries."

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understanding that you represent more than your base, something the Republicans have never mastered, which is how they ended up being so corrupt. The people who advise you on Wall Street, for instance, should be the people who know Wall Street from the dirty side of the tracks. The people who advise on keeping jobs here need to be the people who exported those jobs in the first place. What's the reason they did it? Is it simple greed, or a decision to keep the company alive in a global economy? If it's a business decision to keep a flailing business alive, who knows better than the owner of the flailing business what weakened their position? How are you going to know what's driving people if you never talk to them?

The world isn't that simple: evil greedy conservatives vs caring, responsible Progressives. There's a lot of evil out there on both sides, and a lot of caring. It's too easy to make this us vs them on every front. We're in a process of enormous change on a huge number of levels, and change engenders fear in human beings - we go back to lizard brain if the fear is strong enough. President Obama is smart enough and has a long enough vision to understand that this is way beyond partisan politics, capitalism, socialism, even campaign funding issues. Societies that can't adapt when the world around them is in flux don't survive. We're at survival point now, and that makes us as scared as the conservatives are.

Simple answers and quick fixes won't move us into the 21st Century. A good solid Democratic win in November would make a huge difference, and that's what I hope all of us are focused on right now.

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