This week PBS's Frontline released its ground breaking documentary following two blue collar families from Milwaukee over the past 22 years--"Two American Families." From the halcyon days of well paid industrial labor through the leaner years of the creation of Alan Greenspan's precariate to the economic non-existence of the Lesser Depression, Bill Moyers and Frontline trace the hardships and struggles of the once mighty American Middle Class.
They provide a front row seat to see first-hand the atomization of American culture through the eyes of "ordinary people" drawing a correlation between the macro level power-plays and politics and the micro level bills that are unmet, gutted communities, and hopelessness of the forsaken. Marx once said that the history of a family is the history of a nation. "Two American Families" is the story of the United States as the American Dream began to evaporate in the twilight of Empire.
Check it out on the PBS website, here, or tune into your local PBS station.
They provide a front row seat to see first-hand the atomization of American culture through the eyes of "ordinary people" drawing a correlation between the macro level power-plays and politics and the micro level bills that are unmet, gutted communities, and hopelessness of the forsaken. Marx once said that the history of a family is the history of a nation. "Two American Families" is the story of the United States as the American Dream began to evaporate in the twilight of Empire.
Check it out on the PBS website, here, or tune into your local PBS station.
