Robert Reich Analysis

I really enjoyed the film that we watched class. Robert Reich wasn’t someone that I had heard of before the film and I grew to really like and respect him. After the documentary I did some reading up on him and I liked what I found. While I had a very positive reaction to the film, I went home and talked to my parents about it and I was shocked about their reaction. I agreed with everything that he said, and while Reich was reluctant to label himself as a socialist, I believe that I am and I am proud of it. My parents are basically a caricature of your typical conservative. My mom was interested but when I went into investing in people, she started spouting against welfare and poor people. My dad, I said the words wage inequality and he left
It’s an idea that I believe has been deeply ingrained in our society. When that happened, I was reminded of one of my guilty pleasure shows Poldark. The story is focused on a British soldier right after the revolutionary war. That was a turbulent time as far as class inequality goes, especially when the French were gearing up for another revolution. It didn’t strike me that that show was still so culturally relevant until that point. There is a point on the show when one of the upper class characters says that poor people are a different breed and if they can’t take care of themselves than they shouldn’t be breeding. We are shocked by that but our very own politicians preach this idea if you can’t take care of yourself, for whatever reason that may be, then you don’t deserve to
I think that we’re all a little guilty of this. When some people see someone cashing in food stamps, they think free loader and they are on their day. It’s because of these stereotypes that nothing is getting done. I’ve tried to talk to some of my family members about abortion and that is a heavy talk. I’m very pro-choice and they are very, very pro-life. I’ve noticed that when I talk to them about this, they tell me that the only women getting abortions are the ones that don’t use birth control and think nothing of terminating a pregnancy. I don’t think that anyone could take that that lightly but, if one or two people do that then what about the millions of rape victims, the people who can’t take care of a child, the women that would never survive a