I've come to the realization that we are "expendables" to the PTB.

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10. My wake up call was when Reagan arranged to delay the the release of the Iranian hostages

to secure his election. I probably should have paid attention to Nixon's bombing of Cambodia to secure his re-election, but I was like eleven years old. By the time Reagan came around I was old enough to distinguish between piss and rain. Then came the forty years of flat wages, erosion of any and all pensions and retirement plans, and the dismantling of the public health-care system and its replacement with worker paid premiums to satisfy the greed of the insurance oligarchs.

Forty years of trickle down, bait and switch, and moving goalposts. A lot of Democrats bought into this shit as well.