There's No One Left

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25. I remember those Republicans from when I was young.

You could count on any large or small business owner to be Republican, and there was no shame in it. These people wanted the national government in the hands of fiscally responsible people, and they were afraid of communist Russia, since that was the evil mushroom that had sprung up in the aftermath of WWII. Dwight Eisenhower was a good president, and nobody knew what was going on in the South. Then the 1960s happened, and TV politicking happened, and we found out how dangerous it was to try to vote in the south. By degrees, any politician of either party had to come up with a pile of cash to run convincingly for anything. And that is where we are right now.

I am comforted by the fact that capitalism is failing too. More and more voters are becoming aware that many jobs are essentially peonage to the CEOs, who are making out like bandits. My hope is that voters will get sick and tired of this, and look for a party that actually cares about the burdens they carry and a future that could be better.