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(32,139 posts)who have purchased democratic governments and are busy implementing a war and economic agenda of corporate fascism that continues to murder and increasingly impoverish millions for the greed of a few.
We are being stripped of our country, our safety nets, and our civil protections, driving millions into poverty, and slaughtering innocents, and the policies behind this corporate empire are now mostly bipartisan.
Until we get the banks and corporations out of our government, none of it will change, millions more will die and suffer, and the fascism will grow.
The well-being of women is inextricably part of all of this. Only in a functioning democratic society do women have a prayer of obtaining and maintaining the respect, rights, and protections that you are talking about.