I'm a nurse and I've possibly been exposed to Ebola and I think I maybe should be quarantined

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191. Well, it's always better to try to remain optimistic.

We got pretty far in the late 60s and early 70s, before the Dems figured they could relax, ease up on the vigilance, start rolling over and going back to sleep. But the enemy never dosed off. The enemy never stopped working, never relaxed, never eased up, never assumed things were just gonna be okay because we'd at least come part of the way. No one on our side was as vigilant as they needed to be, when Prop 13 was starting to boil here in California in the late 70s, and triumphed at the polls in 1978, giving reagan an easily slip-n-slide straight into the White House in 1980, enjoying all the lavish momentum that had built up to hate government and taxes and take a meat-axe to taxes in the most reckless, short-sighted fashion imaginable.

I hope you're correct. I hope the way you see it is the way it'll happen. But I'm WAY troubled about it. I don't have the faith in the thinking of the voters that you may have. We have so much lost ground to make up, so far to go to catch up, and a whole national rehabilitation project to engineer and implement. We're only just getting started, and the bad guys have a 30+year head start.

We need to study, thoroughly ingest, and HIJACK - THIS:

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

And it'll probably take 30 years for us, too, to regain the upper hand. The bad guys are HELLBENT on overturning all of the New Deal, all the FDR-initiated and implemented programs that HELP PEOPLE. All the efforts launched by government to create jobs, complete public projects, provide a safety net to the elderly and the poor, and level the playing field a little. The bad guys don't want government intervention AT ALL. They want to leave it all to the Almighty free market. Which FAILED UTTERLY back in the days leading up to the FDR era, and why the New Deal was needed. The government HAD to step in because the private sector, the Almighty free market, was crippled. Was under water. Just wasn't happening. The government HAD to step in because the private sector had fucked things up so royally that it simply could NO LONGER respond. The PRIVATE SECTOR was the problem - that government had to step in and fix. And the GOP and free-marketeers don't want anybody stepping in on their orgy. And they don't see anything that needs fixing.

And that attitude has been allowed to sink in for so many years while the Dems slept, that it's going to take YEARS to reverse. Probably decades. I doubt I'll see what I hope to see in our country - in my lifetime. I'm 61 now. I suspect I'll run out of time long before the bad guys run out of opportunities or schemes to fuck things up. And long before most of America wakes up and realizes how badly it's getting screwed by these vultures and vampires.