Blue-collar, Red-Neck, uneducated blah-blah-blah, they both Endured the Great Depression and my dad DID 'go through the Mil' . They didn't own their own home until my 7th Grade .
That Background, the Physicality of it-- grounded by Roman Catholic Devotion, Church every Sunday -- Observance of EVERY mandatory Holy Day the seemingly PRIMAL Ordinance "Cleanliness is next to Godliness " . To be Clean is to be Near God . { ... }
Low Middle Class gets us to 'close'-----but not by much . So it is I have modest Rancor toward the "Well to do" and DEFINITELY toward the "Filthy Rich" and the `Squalor` Wealthy . Know this : I never thought I would become ANY Body or ANY THING for that matter . That 'it' has held truth .
But there's this >thing< --- a wonderment WHY those "of means" look 'down' upon those of us WITHOUT those same means , those of us who use our BODIES as Tools to leverage and/or wrest Sustenance from the Working World . Why IS it that "Down and Dirty" somehow implies LOWLY and Wretched ? Those of us in Down Here make a phuqing HONEST Living and those above .....
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