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fightforfreedom

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Sun Jun 5, 2022, 07:39 AM Jun 2022

These two things have devastated our culture and we have descended into madness. [View all]

40 plus years of trickle down economics and 20 plus years of Supreme Court decisions that defied history and logic.

Trickle down economics destroys fairness in a culture and promotes corruption. Over the past 40 plus years we went from a single income family, one job, which could buy a house, car, raise a family, to a forced two income, two job family which has trouble paying the bills. I am not saying women should not work, just to be clear. I am just saying a family could get by on one income.

We went from free healthcare, 100% coverage to what we have now, which can only be described as NUTS! We handed all the money to the top and they past all the cost down to the people. The people at the top have acquired so much wealth, which has led to too much power. They have used this power to take control of our political system.

The past 20 plus years has seen the Republicans on the Supreme Court make decisions that have devastated our culture.

No Supreme Court should ever get involved, decide a presidential election. It's a lose , lose situation that will divide the people. People lost faith in the system.

Gutting the voting rights act. Their reasoning, racism is not what it used to be, which is true in a sense because of things like the voting rights act, which they gutted. It was stunning watching Republican Governors, with racist bills sitting on their desks waiting for the Court to gut the voting rights act

Citizens United will always be remembered for, corporations are people too. This decision wrecked , corrupted our election process with devastating results.

Guns, The Supreme Court has made decisions that have increased gun ownership, gun violence.

The American people are not innocent to this devastation. They are the ones who did the voting the past 40 plus years. Only the people can fix this mess.

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The correct answer to Election 2000 was "Count the votes" /nt bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #1
Yes, you are right! raging moderate Jun 2022 #2
That was a tragic painful turning point to the election of Gore. peacebuzzard Jun 2022 #29
Nader's candidacy, Bush clinging to Gore's platform to name two bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #32
you nailed it. peacebuzzard Jun 2022 #33
One thing I still wonder about that election is Disaffected Jun 2022 #62
good question. peacebuzzard Jun 2022 #63
A mess indeed. Disaffected Jun 2022 #65
The day democracy died crud Jun 2022 #51
The US never had free healthcare, 100% coverage. No clue what you are referring to. Celerity Jun 2022 #3
Maybe he's referring to the fact that some people who belonged to strong unions raccoon Jun 2022 #4
Union members used to get coverage with no co-pays or deductibles SouthernDem4ever Jun 2022 #26
I think the writer was referring to employer paid health sinkingfeeling Jun 2022 #5
But that was only people who wnylib Jun 2022 #10
You mean like BCBS's self-insurance...worked for us in the 70s! Backseat Driver Jun 2022 #69
Haven't the vaguest idea who or what BCBS is or was. wnylib Jun 2022 #71
Blue Cross Blue Shield n/t Backseat Driver Jun 2022 #72
I'd like to see evidence of this being the case across the board (not just in a minority of cases, Celerity Jun 2022 #14
Okay, I based that on my personal experience. I began sinkingfeeling Jun 2022 #18
Just so I understand fully, you are saying that you, personally, had healthcare for decades, via Celerity Jun 2022 #28
Yes, when I started with IBM, I paid zero for healthcare sinkingfeeling Jun 2022 #60
Well you were indeed on of the lucky ones, 100 million plus did not have such incredible plans, so Celerity Jun 2022 #61
My family is self employed. MontanaMama Jun 2022 #49
My goodness, your monthly healthcare bill is more than all my bills combined. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #54
It's really hard. That's all I can say. MontanaMama Jun 2022 #58
Congress could do something simple that would help many Americans. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #64
I was not saying all jobs offered free healthcare. I should have been more clear. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #23
You lived in a Northern state, didn't you? Nt raccoon Jun 2022 #38
Yes. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #44
I have had employer paid health insurance most of the time since 1978. Ms. Toad Jun 2022 #73
We've certainly never had and lost free health care. argyl Jun 2022 #8
Back when I had my first plan outside of being covered under my folks... Hugin Jun 2022 #13
Many employee plans started to have high deductibles, from the 1950's onwards. See this: Celerity Jun 2022 #17
Yeah, there has always been crap insurance out there. Hugin Jun 2022 #22
The grand total for this coverage was... Hugin Jun 2022 #19
When I started working I had jobs with free healthcare. it came with the job. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #16
In the high tech world Casady1 Jun 2022 #24
OK, so let's nitpick every statement, but that's not helpful. llmart Jun 2022 #57
What? Novara Jun 2022 #6
Most of the companies Casady1 Jun 2022 #25
Company provided. You didn't lose your house if you got a major illness. Joinfortmill Jun 2022 #41
Good post. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #45
Ah, the good old days Novara Jun 2022 #47
Yeah, I lived thru all that, too. Joinfortmill Jun 2022 #50
I agree. And I don't know how long a people can keep plodding along in this sort of system Novara Jun 2022 #55
👍 Joinfortmill Jun 2022 #59
Also an extraordinary, relentless GOP psy-ops campaign. Irish_Dem Jun 2022 #7
Foreign and domestic oligarchs, rubbersole Jun 2022 #15
Yes of course. Foreign leaders/oligarchs funding corrupt US politicians. Irish_Dem Jun 2022 #27
Sometimes I wonder why the earth doesn't shrug humans off the planet. It may yet. Joinfortmill Jun 2022 #36
Agreed! So much of the hate and rage in our society is rooted in economic stress Amishman Jun 2022 #9
What you post is correct. The Jungle 1 Jun 2022 #11
Thank you, you get it. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #20
Ronnie Rayguns.... wolfie001 Jun 2022 #12
Amen Dentbla Jun 2022 #21
I worked in the steel industry for 40 years. We saw our jobs being sent to China doc03 Jun 2022 #30
In many ways we have kicked our own asses. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #46
President Biden said we would back Taiwan militarily. doc03 Jun 2022 #66
I remember reading about the how the steel workers were f*d over Skittles Jun 2022 #77
We got hit in the late 70s from the recession then Reagan doc03 Jun 2022 #78
I was very young but I absolutely detested Reagan Skittles Jun 2022 #79
True and we have one shot left to fix it. VOTE Joinfortmill Jun 2022 #31
I agree with you. newdayneeded Jun 2022 #34
These things are connected to racism and this country never JI7 Jun 2022 #35
+1 betsuni Jun 2022 #39
One more thing to complete your trilogy: removal of the Fairness Doctrine. intheflow Jun 2022 #37
Very certainly a large part in this mess that Raygun began. Ferrets are Cool Jun 2022 #42
Good point. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #48
Thinking the same thing! luvallpeeps Jun 2022 #67
"Only the people can fix this mess Ferrets are Cool Jun 2022 #40
There is the "we" who did it, and the "We" who refuse to be dragged down into their madness. ancianita Jun 2022 #43
The country has not, and will not, ever kairos12 Jun 2022 #52
Thank you for this post crud Jun 2022 #53
The mess is beyond fixing Blecht Jun 2022 #56
Agree. moondust Jun 2022 #68
The Drug War is one root cause. gulliver Jun 2022 #70
K&R Blue Owl Jun 2022 #74
it absolutely sickened me how many voters fell for Reagan's con Skittles Jun 2022 #75
Vast wealth accumulation for a privileged few, death, debt and destruction for everyone else. czarjak Jun 2022 #76
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