A new book titled “Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite” looks at what author Bruce Levine calls “political passivity.”
Levine says that while the majority of Americans disagree with Wall Street bailouts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they remain passive due to years of US institutions creating a sense of helplessness.
Levine said what’s unfolding in Wisconsin shows that collective self respect can change the passive trend.
Levine wrote:
Once one person shows some courage it’ll catch on. it is infectious, it is contagious. That’s what happened there in Madison, Wisconsin and people throughout the country are an example that people aren’t completely dead yet, aren’t completely demoralized. If people get hit hard enough, which those public sector workers in Wisconsin definitely did, these guys are willing to make all kinds of sacrifices, but it wasn’t good enough...
...it was enough a spark to get people to do something.
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