The Wire's David Simon: 'There Was a Class War, and the Poor People Lost'
by Matt Wilstein
David Simon, the former journalist who created HBO's The Wire and Treme, sat down with PBS host Bill Moyers Friday to give his take on some of the themes discussed in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address this week. "There was a class war," Simon told Moyers, "and the poor people lost."
Simon lamented the “hyperbole” that is used to say we are “including everybody” in this country when “we’re tossing people out of the boat left and right.” He noted that American has “changed” to the point that “we’ve become contemptuous of the idea that we’re all in this together.”
When the “monied” part of the population hears the word “sharing,” Simon said, what they hear is “socialism or Communism or any of the other -isms they want to put on it.” Not only do people without money become “irrelevant” in American society, he added, but we’ve actually managed to “monetize” them using the prison system.
“America worked when there was tension between capital and labor,” Simon continued. But now, he said, “The fights gone out of labor. Labor’s lost the fight. Capital’s won.”
Watch an excerpt from the interview below, via PBS:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-wires-david-simon-there-was-a-class-war-and-the-poor-people-lost/
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