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[MannyGoldstein]

When I first joined DU, way back when, it was purely to vent. Bush was president and the Republicans had a majority in the House and apparently 60 seats in the Senate, because they pushed through any insane #%^+ they wanted, be it legislation or appointees.

It was utterly depressing. I'd get gloating emails from Republican acquaintances. Teh suxxor! as our kid used to say.

Things have changed. To be honest, things are economically far worse today for the 99% than they were back then, and there's no quantitative sign of them getting better. But the cavalry is coming, I think.

Elizabeth Warren (yes, yes, of course, she's not running etc.) too "far out" Liberal to have been elected to Congress 10 years ago, is now the acknowledged heart and soul of our party. She and some other good souls have stopped Larry Summers from another crack at skinning what's left of us little people, have effectively stopped the TPP, and are putting pressure on the DOJ to do something that hasn't been tried in years: bringing huge financial criminals to justice.

A book by that Pikkety fellow from France that screams "the job creators don't create jobs, they just steal your stuff" is now the toast of the Smart Set. Two years ago, the Set was focused like a laser beam on the need to starve the old, poor and infirm a little more responsibly strengthen the social safety net, so this is a step in the right direction.

Republicans are in full meltdown over the failure of Obamacare to end life on Earth, and by the appalling shenanigans of the "useful idiot" Tea Party they created. Their useful idiots have become ours. Tee-hee.

People are waking up. The bulk of us finally realize the Predator Class through their Smart Set lackeys, politicians and the press and such, administered a grand molten-lava enema to the rest of us while we were trying to just get through life, raise the kids, go to work, and do the stuff we were told that good people do.

Times have changed.

We have reached what we nerds call an inflection point. That's the part of the curve where things don't stop getting worse, but they start getting worse more slowly. There's the beginning of some restorative force that's slowing down the bad. Give it a little time, and it will start to turn genuinely upwards again.

So it will be bad for a while, it will even get worse for a while. But if we all pull together, keep our eyes open, heads high, elbows sharp, and vote for people who don't simply suck less, that curve will start going up again. And if history is any indication, it will go up for decades.

So hold on! It's coming!