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In reply to the discussion: Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank [View all]MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)40. "the very things that originally built the middle class in this country."
You're arguing that the past success of the middle class can be narrowed down to a focus on verbal semantics?
Sorry, political correctness is what we got when Democrats got bored in the 1980's but still wanted something to "fight for". Before that they actually DID something for this country.
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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Goals for expanding opportunity/economic justice have been replaced by political correctness goals.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