Nickolai

By Chris Hedges
https://youtu.be/GCjMdOo7KkY

PeterS

Sorry Nick. That's too close to the toilet bowl for me. But you enjoy watching it if you like...

Nickolai

How is it close to the toilet bowl ? There is no question the liberals has been dead for 40 years. By the 1980's the formerly working mans party stood by in silence as the Republicans smashed the labor movement that had suffered hundreds killed and thousands wounded until labor was emancipated with the Wagner Act of 1935 by 2000 the labor movement in the private sector was dead the 2008 financial collapse should have seen a resurgence of democracy but it was not to be and the corporate state is more powerful than ever with the election of the narcisistic egomaniac who has chosen anti environmental, anti public school, anti labor, anti Anthropological climate change, Goldman Sachs, and other assorted billionaires to his cabinet. In 2000 my late mother commenting on the rapid move to the right in America said change will only come when the people can't take it any more. Major reform arrived in the 1930 when the people couldn't take it any more and revolution was stirring and the economic elites acquiesced . It seems to me we have come full circle back to a new gilded age and we can see reform and regulation does not work the power of the moneyed class will always find ways around the rules and regulations.

fredsgirl1

Seeing as we are on the cusp of another recession, I will watch with interest who Trump will blame for the mess about to hit us by 2018. Also, seeing as every Republican president since 1901 has left office with the country in recession I will think it close to a miracle if Trump doesn't do the same as all of his GOP predecessors.

okie don

Welcome fredsgirl.
You'll find interesting 'think tank's thoughts here.
Just remember, if average IQ is100, half that post here are below 100.- Lol's

Quakerwidow Loc: Chestertown, MD

Thank you for posting. Wish some of the "conservatives" with the limited vocabularies would watch it and pay attention.

Rivers

For once PeterS is correct....toilet bowl stuff.

Rivers

I did, and it was pure LEFTIST garbage!

Nickolai

You should be feeling good then the left has been dead for 40 years the new deal has been eviscerated democracy has been decimated by corporate money, neo liberal economics has divided America into a nations of haves, have nots, and have mores.

Rivers

Wrong! It was eviscerated by liberalism and Democrats!

okie don

Damn Rivers.
For some of us who took 3 years to finish 3rd grade, please don't
use them big long words like eviscerated. OK?

Nickolai

Get you history books out The Democratic party had been considered to be the party of the working man and the Republican party had been the party of big business since the gilded age of the robber barons of the late 19th century. The progressive era began in 1892 with the founding of the Peoples party them merged into the democratic party in 1896 presidential election and lasted until 1920 and bringing mild reform With the advent of the great depression the movement too off again with major reforms that were manifest in the New Deal. The Vietnam war and the protestors, Civil Rights Act, and other movements of the 1960's produced a back lash that ended the progressive movement and was reflected in Senator McGovern's landslide loss to Richard Nixon in 1972. The modern conservative movement began to take over and the right was resurrected with the election of Ronald Reagan and his trickle down economics which began peeling away away the New Deal and instructing the regulators to not regulate while the regulations began being peeled away. The result was the S&L collapse the World com, Enron scandals. the dot com bust and culminating in the abys of the 2008 collapse. The Democratic party abandoned labor by the early 1980's thinking they didn't have to worry about labor they had their money and votes because they had no choice that they needed to become more business friendly and go after their share of the wall street cash F**k labor Business gave 10 times as much so the Democrats moved right causing Republicans to move further to the right which in turn caused the D's to move further to the right and so on until the R's moved so far to the right they fell off a cliff. Labor gave up on the D's and went for Trumps populist message designed to turn the rust belt red since the D's were doing nothing to stop the bleeding of jobs to places like China

The base of the D's screamed in the last election but the DNC was deaf and in-responsive so labor gave up and voted for the con man who would make a good used car salesman

okie don

The eight steps to convert a Democracy/ Republic into a socialist/Marxist/ Communist socirty
1. HealthCare - Control it - Done! [ Obamacare ]
2. Poverty - Increase Poverty Level - Done! [ eliminate middle class ]
3. Debt - Increase National Debt - Done! [ $20 Trillion }
4. Gun Control - Remove ability to defend yourself - Almost there!
5. Welfare - Take Control of all aspects of life - Done! [ SNAP{ food stamps}, Sec 8 housing etc.]
6. Education - Control what people read and see on TV - Almost there! [ Fake news]
7. Religion - Remove faith in GOD - Almost there ! [ bibles removed fm zmilitary, no prayers in schools]
8. Class Warfare - DIVIDE PEOPLE BLACK VS WHITE; RICH VS POOR { DIVIDE AND CONQUER THEORY}

okie don

Hello Communist China
Hello North Korea

Paybacktimeishere

America Is A Tinder Box

OkieDon: You're Right, But I Don't Think Anything Will Change For The Better, Until It Is
Resolved, By Another Bloody, (Patriot's Vrs. Traitor's), CIVIL WAR!! Those That Are Pro, Advanced, Civilization, Christianity & Moral's,
AGAINST; Those Desiring A Socialist, "Third-World", Demographically Transformed, "Banana
Republic", SH*THOLE!!! A SEWER, Ruled Over,
By Hedonistic, Dictatorial, Athiestic, ELITIST,
PLUTOCRAT'S!!! HAITI 2.0!!!