The Occupy Movement Ten Years Late?

[Anthony '58]

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(09-18-2021, 08:56 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The overriding issue must be liberty. Donald Trump is too erratic and hollow to effect real change, and never was up to it. If liberals fail this time to protect the electoral process, then it is only a matter of time before the well-organized, well-funded Hard Right will fund reliable flunkies to do the political dirty work to establish a Christian and Corporate State that destroys all social progress (from the New Deal and even the Progressive Era on) to return America to the sweatshop era in labor-management relations and dismantle every basic right that people not white and male have earned the hard way -- through the difficult acts of persuasion and advocacy. Maybe we would not go back to the slave system, but we could possibly go back to Jim Crow after the Hard Right tinkers with the Constitution. Environmental protections would go away in favor of an ethos of "pollute at will". Unions would be cracked once and for all. Maybe people would still have the right and indeed the duty to vote -- as their employers wish them to vote.

A few people would own everything and control anyone who must eat.

The political cycle works. So does politically-charged money as campaign funds.

Ironically, you are likely to be right if the Democrats succeed in abolishing the Senate filibuster; in that case, if the Republicans gain "trifecta control" - the Presidency, the Senate, and the House - come 2025, they will repeal every piece of progressive legislation dating all the way back to the Sherman Antitrust Act; and as Billy Jack said in the movie that bears his name, there won't be one G-d damn thing that the Democrats will be able to do about it.

Then there will be a Second Civil War - with the left not giving a tinker's damn about what foreign enemies they need to collaborate with: Russia, China, Iran, ISIS, whoever.

There will be a 9/11-style attack - or worse - every week, if not more often.