Pride & Opinions

This Friday, for my link round-up, I’m actually highlighting one series at The Republic of T., because I think it’s really good, and, although long, really is a must-read for everyone who cares about LGBT rights and the disenfranchised in general. It’s not short, but definitely good.

* The Society of the Owned, Pt. 1: “The ownership society that has always been is just more clearly identified than before, as is the society of the owned now. The trick, and it worked for a while, was to convince the society of the owned that it too was part of the ownership society.”
* The Society of the Owned, Pt. 2: Under the Bus: “Conservatism apparently holds that some people should end up under the bus, or at the very least no one should try to keep them from ending up there.”
* The Society of the Owned, Pt. 3: Deeper in Debt: “What happens when people who thought they were members of the ownership society find out they’re not, and find out which club they really belong to?”
* The Society of the Owned, Pt. 4: Caught in the Middle: “Upward mobility in the American economy has always been something like the popular 1980s computer game, “Frogger,â€? in which players had to maneuver their frogs across a busy street.”
* The Society of the Owned, Pt.5: The Rage of a Middle Class: “The only sector that’s experiencing job growth (besides government, ironically enough, given the current administration) is the service industry — where wages are lower and benefits fewer — and even that growth is outpace by job losses in other sectors, where does that leave the laid-off middle class homeowner whose mortgage payment just went up at the same time that the value of her home plummeted and her bank cut off access to the home equity loan that many like her would might otherwise draw upon?”

Terrance mentions that there will be more posts in this series, and I’ll be sure to highlight them when they come up.