OK. Neoliberalism better for you? Unfettered, unregulated, crony capitalism better for you?

And perpetrated by Reagan. Republicans started it but no Democrat stopped it.

Good! Then there is something we agree about!

And he union busts and treats his employees terribly. You’re proving my point, Tom.

No righteous person wants to think their ability to create wealth is at the expense of other people getting a chance to. Yet that’s what has happened. You’re right that there is nothing wrong with making money! But there is something wrong with squeezing everything from those who do not have, in order for those who already have to have even more.

Trickle down economics has been a disaster for this country. It has completely destroyed America’s middle class. Democrats won’t win on the message that we can help people survive the disaster. We will win by saying we’re going to end it. Universal healthcare, tuition-free state colleges and universities, a guaranteed living wage, free childcare, paid maternity & paternity leave & guaranteed sick pay - like in every other advanced democracy! - will begin to right the ship.

Ah, what could have been...

Absolutely untrue.

Shocking. Just shocking.

And they were drafted, for God's sake. Had no choice but to be there....

Or longer.

In the same situation, FDR said "I welcome their hatred."

Just thinking about all those "qualified" people who gave us the war in Viet Nam, the War in Iraq, 20 years too long (of failing) in Afghanistan, didn't care - or didn't have the spine - to give Americans what the citizens of every other advanced democracy have: universal health care, free college, paid maternity/paternity leave, free child care and a guaranteed livable wage. I mean, they've done such a bang up job and all. Over the last 48 years, $50 trillion has been transferred from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the top one percent. The idea that only those whose careers have been entrenched in a system that drove us into that ditch should possibly be considered "qualified" to lead us out of it is preposterous. We don't need to respect such a system; we need to disrupt it.

Thank you, Andrew💙

So fabulous

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The only way to protect the right of huge corporations to do whatever they want, whenever they want, is by limiting the right of the people to push back. We can’t let them do it. governing.com/now/the-escala…

Norfolk Southern didn’t come to the meeting to address the town because their lawyers have told them to keep their mouth shut. Given that this disaster was caused by nothing but their greedy cost cutting, any answers they were to give honestly could be used against them in court.

A neoliberal system caves to industries like the railroads - to companies like Norfolk Southern, to their lobbying pressure and campaign donations - so they can legally cut corners, treat their workers like serfs, use antiquated safety measures and endanger the lives of people, animals and planets. It then allows them to get away with limiting the damages they need to pay even after they've ruined people's lives. It's not just this one incident that's the problem. It's the system in which such incidents flourish and out of which such deadly consequences as those at East Palestine, Ohio, inevitably arise. Only when we repudiate the system itself - when we recognize the aberrational chapter of neoliberal, trickle down, corporatist economics for the deadly mistake it has been - will we even begin to repair this country. The executives who were so negligent here should be indicted for this. They knew what they were doing. They knew what risks they were taking. Their own workers - those people who they routinely don't listen to and whose lives they clearly care so little about - tried to tell them.