The road to revolution...

...is paved with disenfranchisement.

I mention this because Ruth Bader Ginsburg this past week warned American consumers and workers about the growing trend in U.S. companies to force them into arbitration agreements, which, in a nutshell,  are most certainly not in their best interests.  As the Economic Policy Institute shows, when you take an employer or service provider to court, you have a 36% chance of winning with a median settlement of $176,000; in arbitration, you have a 21% chance of winning with a median settlement of $36,500.  What's worse is that since the 1980s, courts in the U.S. have allowed companies to flat refuse to hire you or use their services if you don't agree to arbitration, [As an aside, I had this happen to me just last week--I applied for a job online and after answering a couple of questions had a box pop-up that said I must agree now to arbitration or they would not consider hiring me.]

Further, a new study by the University of California and Bucknell University shows that the republican voter suppression tactic of requiring picture I.D.s have dropped Democratic turnout by 8.8% and republican turnout by only 3.6%.

When the powers that be take away a people's right to restitution and their right to change such rules through their vote, eventually you end up with a people that has nothing to lose.  And people that have nothing to lose don't always act as rational as they might.

Just ask King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Peace,
emaycee