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mvd

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6. Good post

Reply to rainy (Original post)

Mon Jul 17, 2017, 09:33 PM

Jul 2017

The rich and corporations were doing fine from the 1930s though the 1970s when the wealth was being shared by everyone. But the Powell memo in the 1970s really led to a full on attempt to buy our government. By the 1980s, inequality really started growing. The rich wanted most of the benefits, and who cares about everyone else. The Repukes move more strongly in protecting the rich, but Democrats have also helped. The Great Recession hurt minorities more than white people overall, showing the importance of economic justice in social justice.

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This country has moved so far to the right [View all] rainy Jul 2017 OP

DURec leftstreet Jul 2017 #1

+1000 Chasstev365 Jul 2017 #2

There's all kinds of Democrats. yallerdawg Jul 2017 #3

So you're farther to the right than Charlie Daniels? tenderfoot Jul 2017 #5

I'm farther to the left than you. yallerdawg Jul 2017 #8

for thousands of elected posts in those red states there is NO dem candidate at all. that's why msongs Jul 2017 #14

Show me a ballot in any Red State... yallerdawg Jul 2017 #17

Exactly the Republican Party doesn't invest a lot of money in the mayoral race in Chicago lunasun Jul 2017 #20

Jeez... RobinA Jul 2017 #24

Charlie Daniels is pretty good representation of the political change in the south inwiththenew Jul 2017 #16

Another point I'd like to make... yallerdawg Jul 2017 #27

The country has move so far to the right it makes my grand-parent's generation of conservatives... tenderfoot Jul 2017 #4

Ike wouldn't be allowed in today's Republican party. Golden Raisin Jul 2017 #7

Good post mvd Jul 2017 #6

This whole healthcare fiasco very telling: Discussion CAN'T focus on excess profits driving cost lostnfound Jul 2017 #23

Exactly mvd Jul 2017 #25

Right now, most of us are funding the filters, brought our cable bills lostnfound Jul 2017 #31

Most polls on substantiative issues indicate that it really hasn't Spider Jerusalem Jul 2017 #9

The Country Has Indeed Moved Right colsohlibgal Jul 2017 #10

True rainy Jul 2017 #11

It is not that. 80 something percent of the Trump supporters still love him. It is their Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2017 #12

Get rid of Fox and right wing hate machines😁 rainy Jul 2017 #13

I don't think we can reach them. But, we can out vote them! earthshine Jul 2017 #21

They will never take our freedom!!!! Initech Jul 2017 #15

Yes! Moving to the right just leads to more conservative extremism and I don't think we can Luciferous Jul 2017 #18

I guess for me I thought the 16 dem party platform was progressive and a women was nominated lunasun Jul 2017 #19

First I'd make sure people heard rainy Jul 2017 #22

LOL, keep trying snooper2 Jul 2017 #26

So let's say in November you have a House choice of a very conservative democrat, Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #28

+1000! Too much of "moving right" is at women's expense! Greybnk48 Jul 2017 #29

We need to challenge every bank owned WinstonSmith00 Jul 2017 #30