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In reply to the discussion: I AM worse off than I was four years ago. I have [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)who could not care less about the unemployed, the poor, the vulnerable in society. Their very existence appears to be problem for them. A political inconvenience.
And for all these years I thought that our party was the one that stood up against this kind of disgust for the country's most vulnerable Americans.
Before we can, as the right wingers say, 'take our country back', it's clear now that we first need to take our own party back.
I agree it is a disheartening thread. I remember when DU was so supportive of other DUers who were struggling in any way. I wonder where those people went? That's what I loved about DU, it's compassion and caring compared to the Right Wing sites where 'pull up your bootstraps' was their national anthem. To see it here is very disturbing.