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In reply to the discussion: Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank [View all]KG
(28,760 posts)10. cant wait for our resident conservatives to drop in to disparage this book
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I have it on the table, just waiting for me to finish what I'm currently reading.
arcane1
May 2016
#1
When the Democrats stopped giving a fig about the poor, the middle class got put on notice.
Octafish
May 2016
#21
Goals for expanding opportunity/economic justice have been replaced by political correctness goals.
MadDAsHell
May 2016
#3
You really do need to read the book. The things that originally built the middle class
SheilaT
May 2016
#41
Isn't the battle over political correctness a major plank in the Trump platform?
JoePhilly
May 2016
#51
Get the book, 'Listen Liberal! Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?'
appalachiablue
May 2016
#4
Amen! Bernie is a New Deal Democrat, Not a Radical, as Chomsky recently said.
appalachiablue
May 2016
#15
I caught it for real. Like Chris Hedges' recent Mexicanization of the US.
appalachiablue
May 2016
#63
Didn't read the book. I Saw him interviewed, and he's flat out lying to serve his point.
Yavin4
May 2016
#22
Do you honestly believe Bernie wants to bring back lynchings and internment camps? nt
bunnies
May 2016
#56
It's hard to know if Bill and Hillary and all the other New Way Dems, Neoliberals, whatever name you
SheilaT
May 2016
#65
I marched with my father, a union shop steward, in labor's protest of Reagan's firing PATCO
Yavin4
May 2016
#31
Yes, they could no longer stand for civil rights or unions. They had to support the corporatocracy
bjobotts
May 2016
#37
Nothing is going to change for the better until the American White working class stops being racist.
Yavin4
May 2016
#59
K&R! If you've read the book, there's a contingent of DUers who personify the Dem party problems nt
riderinthestorm
May 2016
#11