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In reply to the discussion: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . for instance, whatever you learn in the field of Economics is likely a Martin Feldstien-created pile that stresses cutthroat Al Dunlap/Jack Welch 1%er-friendly horseshit over any notion of Eisenhower-era Keynesian economics or the aspects of cooperation, responsibility and community. This is why the 2008 financial shenanigans are legal and never investigated . . . and also why young people are resigned to think that "both parties are the same" (really, all THREE major funded parties are 1%er-friendly). When they see a Democratic administration loading its cabinet with the likes of Jeff Imelt, Larry Summers and Tim Geithner, what are they supposed to believe in?
You can only sell them on "Well, the Republicans are even worse" (which they are, hard as that is to believe) for so long before that dog ain't gonna hunt.