The Generational Step-Up, and How About the Path Along the Way?
I'd really like to hear more about all the things Democrats have done to make a more inclusive America happen over the years, the eight hour workday, and the safety it brought. I'd love to hear about overtime, about people getting a little more cash for working more than eight in a day, or forty hours in a week. I'd love to hear more about general safety, about how we need a full-employment economy, and yes Virginia (and NC) we need to create jobs when the jobs' creators fail Americans so miserably.
But it fits I guess, with my old saying. "Democrats, yea they ain't so great, but damn, the republicans have gone off their rocker. Who else you gonna vote fer?"
Back to FDR? I doubt it. Democrats still don't seem to be getting the message, at least not completely. And how bad is it when you're comparing people to the other party, that is clearly insane racist?
Don't get me wrong, there were inspiring speeches, and instead of being about grandfathers, they were about fathers, and mothers, a bit closer along the line. I guess I'm just saying, that since most of us never get to be the big-time politician, or the Bain Capital trader that sells jobs of real people down the tubes, instead being those working those jobs, lost to republican insanity, why not speak a little more about making that pathway that most of us take through life be traversed a little more smoothly.
I don't say any of this lightly, and all of this came after thinking of all I heard overnight. But when will the Democrats brazenly embrace the poor once again, and include them along side the middle class. I've got a lot of jobs in my life. And a lot of them started at minimum wage. Not one said "Well, you're older now, so I'm going to give you two bucks more an hour to start," they just said "The pay is the minimum wage." I know I'm not alone in this, and I hope someone speaks of the accomplishments of Democrats for workers over the ages, somewhere along the line.
