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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]randr
(12,408 posts)I know how far our Nation has fallen. I do remember the 50's as a decade of prosperity. I remember the 60's as an era of change and expansion of freedoms. This was the turning point where the far right drew the line. They branded protestors and environmentalists in negative terms. They proceeded to destroy the unions that had begun the changes that created the prosperity of the 50's. In the 70's they took control and pulled the carpet out from under all efforts to regulate and control the corporate take over we had been warned of. The 80's were the implementation of their world plans. The 90's saw how well the media could control a slight move to the left. Even in the face of increased prosperity the decade was smeared with shame. We all know what has happened after the millennium as the MIC basically usurped all control of our economy and foreign policy. Again, a move to the left is met with more shame and slander, this time with the participation of bigoted racists who do not know who to blame for their misfortune.
This four decade long slide backwards was the result of only a few million votes in each election cycle, orchestrated by a media owned by the 1%ers, and exacerbated by the, now, poor people looking to blame someone.
It is not a situation of one generation against another. It is not a situation of one race against another. It is not the result of terrorist threats to our way of life.
It is a result of the greed of the 1% and how easily it was for them to divide and conquer a minority of voters with issues that have nothing to do with actual responsibilities of governance.
I wonder what our world would be like if only we had an electorate that showed up to vote and the prosperous path we started out on was allowed to continue.