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In reply to the discussion: Unemployable At 50 Fate Of Present And Future Workers [View all]TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)a capitalistic system that was not and would not create decent jobs for everyone. And ever since Reagan the GOP has successfully used that argument to mask the fact that their agenda was about cutting not only the quantity of jobs but also the quality of jobs as well. Now we have an extremely huge jobs quality gap where virtually ALL new jobs created by the new CEO and corporate class only serve to enrich them at the expense of the people who create the wealth in the first place.
The new billionaires, millionaires and CEO business class are like leeches in that they are continually bleeding the powerless to get what they want. They are the new Sheriff's of Nottingham in this new feudal economy. It will take radical and militant confrontive change to reverse trends that have been put in place over 32 years by the GOP and its allies.
It will not stop even as we regress to a Dickensonian world. Obama is hated because he pauses their process like Clinton did. Obama and the Democrats themselves cannot truly reverse this agenda. Only knowledgeable voters who can elect even socia;list politicians can. The RW is in the process of invading our education system with privatization and charter schools. And Obama is making a huge blunder in supporting the kind of reform he is pursuing. He has only slight modified the Bush agenda.
The only hope is that even a misinformed and lied to younger generation understands in some way how they are being screwed.