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Sherman A1

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5. and has been for
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:13 PM
Feb 2013

about the last 30 years. It's been a reissue of the Gilded Age since Ronald Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers.

Partly because Americans have a knack nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #1
Why do you suppose that is, though? YoungDemCA Feb 2013 #2
A combo nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #6
The wealthy count on kids being bored in sanitized high school history Warpy Feb 2013 #8
^ ^ ^ ... +1. . . . n/t annabanana Feb 2013 #9
Exactly!!! bvar22 Feb 2013 #25
In School, my School stop History at the Civil War, to avoid Labor issues happyslug Feb 2013 #32
Well said, Warpy! surrealAmerican Feb 2013 #35
Thats a knack many cultures share. nt cstanleytech Feb 2013 #34
What is this "struggle to organize the laboring classes" you speak of? limpyhobbler Feb 2013 #3
I mean that it was a struggle and is a struggle YoungDemCA Feb 2013 #7
I was just wondering how today's struggle to organize the laboring classes limpyhobbler Feb 2013 #10
Who owns the media? valerief Feb 2013 #24
I certainly is a struggle still! Worse now than the 60s and 70s. Coyotl Feb 2013 #17
Absolutely. elleng Feb 2013 #4
more to do with corporate control and monopoly economic power, i suspect. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #13
all of which derive from human nature, elleng Feb 2013 #14
no more than any other human phenomenon does. not all human societies have run on the HiPointDem Feb 2013 #16
Thank you. woo me with science Feb 2013 #18
I tend to think the problems described in the top post are not limpyhobbler Feb 2013 #22
A combination of self-imposed ignorance and fear in large segments of the population... AdHocSolver Feb 2013 #39
and has been for Sherman A1 Feb 2013 #5
Here's an article from a few months ago about how similar things are. pampango Feb 2013 #11
kr HiPointDem Feb 2013 #12
How all that led to the Great Depression! It seems to be cyclical, forgetting lessons learned. Coyotl Feb 2013 #15
And we're at the worst... ReRe Feb 2013 #21
In 1903 Congressman J.C. Cooper from Ohio wrote: AnotherDreamWeaver Feb 2013 #19
Yep.....anyone see the next Teddy Roosevelt walking around? yourout Feb 2013 #20
We are struggling with the new robber barons today. They are known as the too big to fail Cleita Feb 2013 #23
with everyone being required to piss in a cup onethatcares Feb 2013 #26
Another history lesson about labor......... WcoastO Feb 2013 #27
The system hasn't changed. Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #28
This message was self-deleted by its author ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2013 #29
Americans don't like history. It's one thing that other countries have lots more of. tclambert Feb 2013 #30
Here are Some Other Books, if You Want Some mckara Feb 2013 #31
Interesting parallels between the robber barons... malthaussen Feb 2013 #33
"The Jungle" not only tells what was happening, but HOW (cont) Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #36
That's what happens when labor history is not taught in schools and it is banned senseandsensibility Feb 2013 #37
K&R... love_katz Feb 2013 #38
Howard Zinn makes the point that during that period politics developed as a distraction from class patrice Feb 2013 #40
The difference is in the power conferred by technology. AdHocSolver Feb 2013 #41
1877 Year of Violence by Robert V. Bruce aquart Feb 2013 #42
"All of them were caught in something larger than themselves. theKed Feb 2013 #43
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