They are moving quickly, as if they are desperate to finish the job...

[pat_k]

48. Her observations are always worthwhile.

Just as powerful industrialists, Wall Street financiers, railroad monopolists, and conservative political leaders sought to further impoverish poor farmers and silence agrarian reform movements, powerful forces within the top 1% are seeking to cut out the will of the American people. Unlike the 1890's where those forces held the levers of power against the forces of progressive reform, I think we are at the brink of serious "backlash" against those who seek to eliminate "We the People" as a governing force.