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53. Why is it so shocking that a major candidate sides with US against Big Energy? It should not be out

Sun Nov 22, 2015, 12:21 PM

Nov 2015

of the ordinary that a political candidate sides with the people, but it is a shocking break from ordinary campaign rhetoric.

What does that say about how far we have fallen from the days when both Democrats (like FDR) and Republicans (like T Roosevelt and Ike) unequivocally sided with the people against the corporations; and ,nowadays, that is a bold departure from the status quo?

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