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In reply to the discussion: Maybe we should have a "I don't like Hillary" group [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)because, well let's just say my mom and I are the only avowed Democrats in my American family, and that includes several young people.
And I agree about the gains made for social justice (although with the marijuana laws, we are really at about the same place we were at in the late '70s), but the police seem to be getting out of control in lots of places. At the same time, we have been really spiralling backward on the economic front, and we still don't seem to have learned the lessons of Vietnam.
As for environmental issues, we still aren't even back at the same place we were during the first Earth Day (which the stamps in my sig line commemorate). Admittedly, lead is no longer used in gasoline and paint, and DDT has been banned, but now we have mostly monoculture corporate farms that use massive amounts of farm chemicals and growth hormones. We are steadily destroying our forested areas and paving over land at an astonishing rate, and now we have fracking and massive offshore drilling to contend with.