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Showing Original Post only (View all)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.