Thomas Frank calls out blind partisanship by Dems

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45. "The Great Depression of the 1930s was awful,

but it set America on the path toward a period of shared prosperity."

-The rest of this sentence should be "for some".

The fantasizing about the Depression is mind-boggling and trying to twist it around to the present is silly. There are people today who would laugh in your face about any "shared prosperity" after FDR including those who were excluded (and continue to be excluded) from any "prosperity" or right to sit where they wanted, eat where they wanted, live where they wanted, love who they wanted, and vote for who they wanted.

If such "prosperity" existed, then why did this happen and continues to happen?



I think people need to realize that there is an insidious side to human nature and it is human nature to evolve into some sort of hierarchy. And whether that "top" is some "Council of Elders" or "head of a family clan", or is an elected politician, there is still a layer. Think about it - even within a household with parents and children - the parents are "in charge" and are not "equal to" the children until the children are grown (and even then, the parent still sees their child as their child).

And those who find they can have more and more with that status, tend to want to keep it. It doesn't matter what party you belong to or where in the world you evolved, the easy way is the status quo. This doesn't mean you can't try to do all you can to mitigate the situation, but unfortunately it is a part of the strong undercurrent of human nature.