Hey Stupid Repuglicon,

Robert Reich wrote,

What’s at stake this election year? Let me put as directly as I can.

America has succumbed to a vicious cycle in which great wealth translates into political power, which generates even more wealth, and even more power.

It’s most obviously seen in declining tax rates on the top, wider larger tax loopholes, and government bailouts and subsidies (to Wall Street bankers, hedge-fund partners, casino tycoons, and giant agribusiness owners, among others).

More hidden are changes in economic rules to favor the wealthy. Billionaires like Trump can use bankruptcy to escape debts but average people can’t get relief from burdensome mortgage or student debt payments, for example. Giant corporations can amass market power without facing antitrust lawsuits (think Internet cable companies, Big Pharma, giant health insurers, major food processors -- and their top executives and major shareholders). It’s now easier for Wall Street insiders to profit from confidential information. It’s easier for giant firms to extend the length of patents and copyrights, thereby costing average people far more. And to get trade treaties that protect their foreign assets while not protecting only real asset of most workers – their jobs. It's easier for giant military contractors to secure huge appropriations for weapons that aren't necessary, and to keep the war machine going.

The result is a giant upward distribution of income from the middle class and poor to the wealthy and powerful. And growing anger and frustration by most Americans, accompanied by deep cynicism about our democracy. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that nothing can be done -- which is exactly what moneyed interests want, because then they’ll have it all.

The only way to end this vicious cycle, reverse these hidden upward distributions, and overtake the war machine, is to tax away the huge accumulations of wealth that fuel it and get big money out of politics. But it’s chicken-and-egg problem. How can this be done with wealth and power so concentrated at the top? Only through a political movement such as we had a century ago when progressives reclaimed our economy and democracy from the robber barons of the first Gilded Age.

Such a movement has started. It began with “Occupy,” then the Fight for Fifteen, and now Bernie’s campaign. (Trump’s campaign is a bastardized version that draws on the same anger and frustration but has perverted it into bigotry and xenophobia.)

2016 is a critical year. But, as the progressives learned more than a century ago, it will require many years of hard work from millions of us. No single president or politician can accomplish it. Regardless of who wins the presidency in November and which party dominates the next Congress, it is vitally important we continue to build this movement to take back our nation from the oligarchs.

What do you know,stupid repuglicon?

I have been on this site long enough to see that there is a great division among us.

There are those that claim to be a Patriot who would destroy our nation by force rather than make room in this country for those that are not to their liking.

Those that feel it is best to destroy what made this country what it was at it's best.

Just remember that there is a fine line between a Patriot & a Terrorist. Even though the line is fine it all depends on who draws the line. It is the ones with the most power.

Just remember the Minutemen were Terrorist to the British.

I will let you claim to be what ever you wish but there are others that may claim you to be the other.

The system has come to be not what you would like it to be. You fail to put the blame in the right place.

The way to make things better is to Unite & find the real cause of our problems & look for the changes need to put the country back on track from with in the system.

The greatest threat to this nation is coming from within because we are so divided.

Be careful of what you would destroy in your quest to make this country into what you would like to see.

Hell, if they had all called each other on the phone, they could have reduced the CO2 pollution released into the atmosphere for this year, by 300,000 TONS!!!!! That is the carbon footprint of this one conference. It appears that if we could stop the stupid politicians from jetting all over the world to bullshit each other, we wouldn't have any excess carbon in the atmosphere.

Those pushing the climate change agenda are not really worried about THEIR carbon footprints, but for some reason, they're finding very expensive things us middle class workers need to do about our meager contributions to atmospheric carbon. Why ya recon that is?

But in truth and reality, the whole anthropogenic climate change boondoggle is just one big lie, ... so, either way, it's all just a big waste of time and money.