{"id":4177,"date":"2020-11-16T18:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T23:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2020-11-16T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T23:25:50","slug":"post-11-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/16\/post-11-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Post 11\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zinn uses this chapter to provide a sort of inspiration for the middle class of America.\u00a0 He describes the distribution of power currently held by American elites, but he provides hope that this can change.\u00a0 Zinn acknowledges that revolutions often do not work, but that does not stop him from making middle class Americans fed up with the current system.\u00a0 The American Elites hold their power by inciting violence into the middle class to keep the pressure and flaws at the bottom of the class structure.\u00a0 Zinn shows that people have been incapable of flipping the script, because of the lack of unity in the lower classes.\u00a0 I can not see Zinn\u2019s radical proposal working.\u00a0 It would require such unity that I feel is unachievable in the near future.\u00a0 I love the perspective and hope Zinn provides for the rest of us, but I cannot see a full revolution of the punishment system to be in the near future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said, I am hopeful for the future of the country.\u00a0 America is extremely divided right now, but I think change is coming.\u00a0 The pandemic and progressive movements within the United States are beginning to bring people together and limit the influence of American Elites.\u00a0 I feel that politically we are far from united, but people are beginning to see that we are all in this together.\u00a0 Joe Biden will continue to make this his goal, and I have faith in the American people.\u00a0 I do not believe in the utopia that Zinn proposes, because of the high expectations he is putting in all American people, but if we can meet in the middle with where we are now and where Zinn wants to take us, I believe in the future of the country.\u00a0 Zinn even acknowledges his plan is next to impossible, but if we can use the flaws of our past to guide our future I genuinely believe an alternate sort of utopia can be found.\u00a0 People are far from perfect, and everyone will continue to make mistakes, but if the leaders of our country and the people following them can use this book to see the past to guide decision making, then a better future is there.\u00a0 America is a young nation that has made so many mistakes, and this historical book is essentially a guide through the years of failures.\u00a0 Failures that will create a better future in America and the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zinn uses this chapter to provide a sort of inspiration for the middle class of America.\u00a0 He describes the distribution of power currently held by…<\/p>\n

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