11-17-2016, 02:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2016, 03:07 PM by Eric the Green.)
It is 36 years now, with the next 4 to be added on. Enough Republican and Democratic-lite power to stop or reverse every progressive proposal and institute regressive proposals instead. No progressive administration and congress in all that time; even since 1966. A sane nation would not tolerate a leadership such as we have had for 54 years and counting.
And we have paid for it with ballooning inequality, increasing poverty, and becoming an immobile class society in a banana republic, which imposes mounting climate change on the rest of the world, not to mention creepy, deadly wars and invasions, and a skyrocketing national debt whose sole and deliberate purpose was to shrink government to fit into a bathtub, as one of our leaders put it.
No progressive presidents, and only two Democratic-lite administrations in all that time, and even the two Democratic-lite administrations had their proposals blocked in congress virtually their entire time in office. All in obedience to the Reagan false and deadly ideology of free-market trickle-down economics, and resentment of "top down" government policies which might "use my taxes for freebies for lazy people; you know, those weird folks in the cities who got all that civil rights help, and all those illegals; you know those folks I mean....."
And we have paid for it with ballooning inequality, increasing poverty, and becoming an immobile class society in a banana republic, which imposes mounting climate change on the rest of the world, not to mention creepy, deadly wars and invasions, and a skyrocketing national debt whose sole and deliberate purpose was to shrink government to fit into a bathtub, as one of our leaders put it.
No progressive presidents, and only two Democratic-lite administrations in all that time, and even the two Democratic-lite administrations had their proposals blocked in congress virtually their entire time in office. All in obedience to the Reagan false and deadly ideology of free-market trickle-down economics, and resentment of "top down" government policies which might "use my taxes for freebies for lazy people; you know, those weird folks in the cities who got all that civil rights help, and all those illegals; you know those folks I mean....."