I turn 63 this year.
I can remember a time when were WERE moving in the right direction.
During the 60s, the Democratic Party steadily pushed our nation toward a more just, egalitarian society.
The Wealth Distribution Gap was narrowing as out Tax Policies, Trade Policies (International & Domestic), and Social Programs built the largest, wealthiest, and most upwardly mobile Working Class the World had ever seen.
Despite the VietNam War, LBJ was able to pass the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, and a host of Democratic advancements under his Great Society Programs.
Things weren't perfect, but we WERE taking great strides in the right direction.
There was HOPE and Excitement for the future.
Things WERE getting better for everyone, not just the Wall Street Bankers.
NOW, we are sliding steadily to the Conservative Right,
and we consider it a "VICTORY" when the Republicans don't get every single thing they want.
It is hard to keep a happy face when we are sliding steadily backward into a new Gilded Age.
---bvar22
an old, faithful, mainstream-center FDR/LBJ Working Class Democrat,
now considered a "Fringe Leftist" and a "Fucking Retard" in the New Democrat Centrist Party.
I haven't changed.
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