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In reply to the discussion: I am an older white woman, a retired teacher. [View all]tomp
(9,512 posts)....and i have yet to find anyone significantly to my left.
i spent decades in political activism, long after many of my cohorts had gone on to feather their nests.
i don't claim to be the most knowledgeable person on this board, but i've been around and paid attention, and some things are just plain obvious.
The U.S. has been in crisis for most of the 20th century and all of the 21st, but especially following the JFK assassination. To my knowledge there has never been a time since the turn of the 20th century when business and government were not working hand-in-hand. there has been a gradual increase and consolidation of corporate power over many years, but the real difference of late is the blatantness of it all.
We should have had peace 50 years ago. We should have had equal rights for all 50 years ago. We should have had environmental safety 50 years ago. We should have had fair compensation for work 50 years ago. If not a hundred.
Obama is not the man for this time but is 50 years behind the times and is throwing bones and crumbs to the masses while further entrenching corporate control of the government. AND he is fooling a lot of people, but then, that is his job, and he is very good at it, as is the democratic party.
We need radical change NOW. the two-party system is not able to provide that, the darling mr. obama notwithstanding.