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TheMastersNemesis

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9. Failure Of Analysis
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 11:29 AM
Jan 2012

I see a lot of failure of analysis and lack of understanding of history. Teddy Roosevelt and FDR talked about an "Economic Bill Of Rights". That agenda is where we should be going.

Democrats have largely been forced to the right because the country votes against progressive pro worker and pro labor ideas. If workers had voted for their economic interests in the long run we would have had different outcomes. Clinton ran as a new Democrat because he perceived that he had to run as a corporate Democrat to win. Democrats have allowed themselves to be pushed right. And when politicians ran on pro labor ideas voters voted against them.

Look at what happened to Feingold, Grayson and other progressives who support worker rights.

The failure is in voters. Politicians will run based on the message that voters send them. If you voted for Obama and you are still unemployed it is because the system was broken down starting 40 years ago. The GOP and conservatives have ALWAYS gamed the system to support vulture capitalism. That fact should be too obvious to even mention.

No one created wealth on their own. The rich got that way making workers work for "peanuts". I am amazed at how ignorant most Americans are when it comes to labor history. Romney is wealthy because he "screwed" working class Americans. He did not earn his money in any kind of moral way.

The only hope is to vote for progressive causes. Voters have given this country to corporations. If workers do not understand that the GOP just kills them economically every time, then I wonder if there is any hope.

Then agains some of the replies I see are most likely GOP trolls.

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