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It is like the return of the pod men from 1933 Germany. This HAS to be the last gasps of a dying breed. Some entitled and privileged chaps are too arrogant to ever learn from history... heh.
JustAnotherGen
(32,025 posts)Of a dying dominant culture
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,035 posts)And these hateful fucks are on a full-on offensive to grab all the power they can. They are just rolling over anyone that gets in their way. Including us.
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)Dems need to take the Senate, not just the White House. And the electoral college makes things difficult for us in close elections, so we need it to be am Obama-like landslide in our favor.
Ginsburg will likely retire when Dems take control.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Reagan slashing the top marginal tax rates on wealthy people and corporations, breaking the taxation system that had been there from FDR till the B actor got in. Reagan also doing away with the long time Fairness Doctrine....which gave us Fox News, Limbaugh and other far right Media.
So old Ronnie really started this ball rolling. Eisenhower saw this coming as he outlined in his farewell speech as he was exiting the White House. It is worth watching.
Some other resources are the docs Inside Job and Why We Fight , Jane Mayers book Dark Money among others.
We are in a pickle.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)and 80 million people to perish in the process.