Everyone In America Is Even More Broke Than You Think

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129. it's not the fact, it's the degree of complicity and support.

The takeover of power in America by a few wealthy families and mega businesses is a conservative scheme that has been facilitated to a small degree by corrupted Democrats. Also, during the 1990s some Democrats did try to maximize their power in a conservative environment by moving more conservative, not corruption but definitely a move right that was occasionally over the line of what is acceptable to most Democrats. Senator Biden actually posted of passing three strikes in the extreme, punitive form acceptable to the GOP after he had failed to get it knocked down to a much milder form.

Those days are over definitively for the Democratic Party, and have been for some years. We have already returned left. The serious damage our president has inflicted on the very wealthy already and reforms he has been able to enact against the ferocious opposition of the GOP and ultra-right plutocracy should be proof of that to everyone.

Right-wing manipulators, though, have always relied heavily on the trick of blaming everything they do that people don't like on the Democrats. At best, many looking for someone to blame believe it implicitely, at worst people in many voter groups will be confused and not know who is responsible, often withdrawing from involvement, which usually benefits the Republicans.

And of course, as we see so well here, many come to believe that the Democrats are as bad and as corrupt as the Republicans, certainly not much better and both a plague on the land.

THIS plays right into the hands of the ultraconservative plutocrats who have spent the last three decades destroying our trust in and support for our government so that they can reform it to their liking.

A thought l'd like to leave people with is that we really are the good guys these days. The GOP has been taken over by the bad guys. A second, very important thought is that we are much more powerful then some people who have become disillusioned and dispirited realize.