It's not merely Republicans versus Democrats, or conservatives versus liberals. The larger battle is between regressives and progressives.
Regressives want to take this nation backward -- to before Social Security, unemployment insurance, and Medicare; before civil rights and voting rights; before regulations designed to protect the environment, workers, consumers, and investors. They want to sabotage much of what this nation has achieved over the last century. And they're out to do it by making the rich far richer, turning Americans against one another in competition for a smaller and smaller slice of the pie, substituting private morality for public morality, and opening the floodgates to big money in politics.
Progressives are determined to take this nation forward -- toward equal opportunity, tolerance and openness, adequate protection against corporate and Wall Street abuses, and an economy and democracy that are working for all of us.
The upcoming election is critical but it's not the end of this contest. It will go on for years. It will require that you understand what's at stake. And that you energize, mobilize, and organize others.
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ROBERT B. REICH, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written thirteen books, including the best sellers "Aftershock" and "The Work of Nations." His latest is an e-book, "Beyond Outrage." He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause.
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It is unbelievable.
Do you believe that the USA should adopt the progressive/socialist/communist form of big government like Russia where everybody has (had) a job working for the government, the government owns everything, and the government collects everything that the people produce and then some politically appointed family connected government elite bureaucrat doles out the food, shelter, and clothing required to sustain our lives according to the bureaucrat’s whim or desire?
Isn't it really a question of a big government taking care of everybody, or small government where people are required to take care of themselves?
Most of the individuals in any future communist nation would want to work at something other than producing the basic food, shelter, clothing and other products required to sustain life.
The producers would strive to become members the a non-producing greedy government elite bureaucrat society, demanding and wanting the disgruntled producers to produce more and more so that privileged individuals of the government elite bureaucratic society class can keep themselves busy as musicians, poets, actors, social workers, philosophers, historians, politicians, bureaucrats, administrators, police, firemen, judges, military, school teachers, anthropologists, archeologists, and other endeavors that do not create any of the food, shelter and clothing necessary for maintaining the lives of the population.
Under the communist system, some citizens (the non-producing greedy elite family connected government bureaucrats) are "MORE EQUAL" than other citizens (the lower class citizens that make the things that the elite government bureaucrats (and the producers) consume!
US citizens would then have traded businessmen, industrialists and Wall Street financial wizards who now control the conditions and terms of their employment (or servitude) for an elite class of family connected (almost royal) government bureaucratic employees who will be controlling our employment (or our conditions of servitude), and they would then dole out our share of the necessities of life to each of us according to our needs, not according to the amount that he/she produced!
BUT, then I do read it to find you are actually a comedian...What a Hoot!
Occupy the Voting Booth
Just once i'd like to call the Dems on their bluff, and hand them an excuse-proof controlling majority. I suspect that's their worst nightmare.
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And secondly, since when was every person with a uterus cis? And since when was that the only reproductive right to be exercised? This stuff continues to bug me about much of the organized left. Reproductive rights woulda killed ya to say?
It's amazing. Republicans love to badmouth China-but the truth is,they're jealous they can't have it that way here for anyone who can't pay thier admission fee into voting-i.e. the top 2 percent.
It's disgustingly hypocritical. They don't give a damn about this country. Just thier own pockets.
Forward, Robert.
When problems need solving it is not providing solutions to keep barking at the other guy. You only get there if you unite, guaranteed.
They are the proximate cause of most of them.
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