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In reply to the discussion: What Is the Biggest Angry Voting Block in the US----Women! Because We are ALL Oppressed. [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)will be more helpful to the 1%. I don't think she really cares enough about the middle and lower classes to really help them.
Not touchy and defensive, just answering you, using your points.
I think the TPP will finish off the middle class, anyway.
That being said, I am sick of seeing social issues cast as needing to take the place of economic issues. There is no reason both cannot be addressed. And when a Democrat requests fast track and secrecy for cutting Social Security, that is a big sea change - I do not think the Democratic Party is a party I can belong to. It makes me sad and angry. Reading that things like social security are PONIES, from HRC supporters, also makes me believe the Democratic Party, as it used to be is dead. Wall Street and the Third Way bought it.
Looks like the GOP has been and will be running the show, complicit with the Dems, for a while now.