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Fighter-Christina Aguilera

After all that you put me through, You think I'd despise you, But in the end I wanna thank you, 'Cause you've made me that much stronger

Well I thought I knew you, thinkin' that you were true Guess I, I couldn't trust called your bluff time is up 'Cause I've had enough You were there by my side, always down for the ride But your joy ride just came down in flames 'cause your greed sold me out in shame

After all of the stealing and cheating you probably think that I hold resentment for you But uh uh, oh no, you're wrong 'Cause if it wasn't for all that you tried to do, I wouldn't know Just how capable I am to pull through So I wanna say thank you 'Cause it

[Chorus:] Makes me that much stronger Makes me work a little bit harder It makes me that much wiser So thanks for making me a fighter Made me learn a little bit faster Made my skin a little bit thicker Makes me that much smarter So thanks for making me a fighter

Never saw it coming, all of your backstabbing Just so you could cash in on a good thing before I'd realize your game I heard you're going round playing the victim now But don't even begin feeling I'm the one to blame 'Cause you dug your own grave After all of the fights and the lies 'cause you're wanting to haunt me But that won't work anymore, no more, It's over 'Cause if it wasn't for all of your torture I wouldn't know how to be this way now and never back down So I wanna say thank you 'Cause it

I am a fighter and I I ain't gonna stop There is no turning back I've had enough

The class struggle has been going on for centuries:

“Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.” – [|Plato] Greek philosopher (427-347 B.C.) Great Depression 1930s/40s: By 1929, the richest 1% owned 40% of the nation’s wealth.

"our people living like pigs and good rich land layin' fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin" -__Grapes of Wrath__



"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."-__Grapes of Wrath__

John Steinbeck says that change must come, but decades later, has it?



According to 2009 data, the richest 1% own 34.6% of the nation's wealth. (Edward Wolff, Bard College: Federal Reserve)

Will it ever change?

//"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson"// -US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933
 * No?**

"Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain’t no good and they die out, but we keep on coming. We’re the people that live. They can’t wipe us out, they can’t lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa, cos we’re the people. -__Grapes of Wrath__
 * Yes?**

"I only say that the social state of those nations does not lead toward revolution, but rather wards it off. Democratic nations, left to themselves, are slow to embark on great adventures."- De Tocqueville, 639
 * Maybe?**





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