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In reply to the discussion: Social Justice is the ONLY Path to Economic Prosperity for Workers in This Country [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)86. The CIA dumped the coke in the 1980s. In the 1960s, they dumped heroin.
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McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
OP
Whether we like it or not a great many jobs are going away and not being replaced
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#1
Nearly 15,000 posts you have, and you don't know what a neoliberal is.
woo me with science
Feb 2015
#43
You mean like FDR interring the Japanese during WWII? That kind of illegal stuff?
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#73
If we had heeded the lesson of history, we would not have had the crash of 2008.
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#84
Corporate neocolonialism is sold with the same sweet smell of the old colonialism
HereSince1628
Feb 2015
#60
While I know the traditional meaning of neoliberal I'm not really bound to it
HereSince1628
Feb 2015
#75
+1 Purposeful obfuscation is the MO of the corporate coup targeting our democracy.
woo me with science
Feb 2015
#92
Hijack? As in what you are doing by introducing "Hillary is Neoliberal" in a thread about social
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#76
What do "neoliberalism" and "neocolonialism" have to do with each other besides the "neo" part?
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#67
Mostly I think it references the different players and the different contexts
HereSince1628
Feb 2015
#77
If you know how to read them, polls are very reliable. More than the tabulated vote sometimes.
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#56
This is why we cannot get the changes we really need. You need to support the candidate that
Dustlawyer
Feb 2015
#45
We'd need a parliamentary government to beak free of the two party system.
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#59
I have good news for you! Economic progressives are GREAT on social justice issues!!
stillwaiting
Feb 2015
#6
Except when they are putting economics ahead of social justice issues. n/t
1StrongBlackMan
Feb 2015
#104
Let me ask you, That unwed mother is poor, those Koch Brothers are a nasty peice of work but when is
Autumn
Feb 2015
#7
No, the dismantling of democracy and the increase of authoritarianism and inequality
woo me with science
Feb 2015
#11
I agree with you 100% and only have to look at the "quality" of the posters doing their damndest
Number23
Feb 2015
#124
"What we can't do is focus solely on civil rights and hope the money will follow"........
socialist_n_TN
Feb 2015
#70
That post you just agreed with seems to be in direct conflict with the point of your own OP.
Number23
Feb 2015
#125
I don't think that a change in economic power would wipe out bias overnight........
socialist_n_TN
Feb 2015
#106
Are people disagreeing with the premise of McCamy's post, or the mention of Hillary?
OneGrassRoot
Feb 2015
#17
Yeah, I'm having a hard time understanding that, too. Thanks, boston bean. :) n/t
OneGrassRoot
Feb 2015
#32
I don't think the two should be separated, and at one time, for Dems, they weren't.
winter is coming
Feb 2015
#33
Right, Bill Clinton signed DOMA in the 90s, and now marriage equality is the rule, not the exception
eridani
Feb 2015
#128
No, social justice is not way up. We were doing OK in the 1970s, but then Reagan
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#52
There have definitely been reverses, particularly in reproductive rights,
winter is coming
Feb 2015
#57
Self empowerment. Does that mean "bootstraps"? Too bad some kids don't have boots.
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#31
I don't understand where the idea that social justice hasn't changed anything.
boston bean
Feb 2015
#36
I don't think the term "social justice" has been used in the same way throughout
winter is coming
Feb 2015
#47
ALL of HISTORY proves this argument to be beyond dumb and dishonest.
woo me with science
Feb 2015
#22
The tone of the responses is almost deafening. To me, it makes the case...nitpicking, criticizing
libdem4life
Feb 2015
#51
People can arrive at the same conclusions through different approaches.
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2015
#62
Oh, is this the meme wherein we need to be nice to the poor bankers, and just be
djean111
Feb 2015
#82
Hell no! I posted in 2008 that we needed our own Ferdinand Pecora and I still say we do.
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#94
Awesome OP but are you sure right wingers 'hate and fear Hillary Clinton'? The
KingCharlemagne
Feb 2015
#93
Uh... yeah. I'm sure. Back in 2008 it took me three mega long OPs to chronicle all the ways
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2015
#98
Hmm, that's interesting. Perhaps I shall have to examine Ms. Clinton anew with a
KingCharlemagne
Feb 2015
#103