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In reply to the discussion: What the heck is a microaggression, anyway? [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Corporatist "Democrats" are as bent on destroying the middle class as are the Repukes.
Rights in the abstract, with no power to use them or enforce them, are MEANINGLESS. And that means some measure of economic power. The Constitution of the Soviet Union was filled with fine words guaranteeing rights. And since no Soviet citizens had the power, economic or otherwise, to stand up to their government, attempts to get those rights acknowledged and recognized got you a one way trip to Siberia for ten years.
A nation of people in economic serfdom has no rights ANYONE has to respect, regardless of what pretty words are on paper in the law books. What about this can you not understand? Economic security is the necessary predicate of meaningful rights because TPTB pay no attention to poor people, or even middle class people anymore in the US.
Read some Marx, read some Dickens, read some FDR speeches, in particular the Second Bill of Rights speech, which was an encapsulation of the very thing I am preaching here. For dog's sake listen to or read something.
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FDR's Second Bill of Rights Speech