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[quote=Anonymous][quote]It was an almost perfect storm of circumstances. The conservatives, much like now, felt underheard and underrepresented. Elected a president who had, not bad ideas, ineffective ideas for the economy. On top of that, credit card companies were able to market to the consumer en masse, and a shift happened where an emerging middle class was trying to one up each other and their parents- hence debt. Add to that a surge in educated available workers? And you have little to no reason to increase worker wages. In fact workers' efficiency has skyrocketed with the advent of computers, but culture has continued to push corporation and money over people, and so the profits are withheld from the public.

[b]And now we need to ask ourselves: Under three Democratic Presidents since 1980, nothing has changed, why? [/b]

What I can't understand is so many people, not the bought and sold politicians, but my contemporaries being able to see the same information as I have and not getting that for 40 years this has not worked. Why so many people I know don't get that 'progressive' values are simply what most of the world already embraces. But beyond that, that for example, 70% of Americans support Medicare for All. That is HUGE! Yet, Democratic senators won't sign on and do NOT support what their constituents want.

I mean, come on. America is changing and our politicians are not.

Stop believing this fantasy that we must stay in the center- it's a lie. All great change comes from stepping away from the crowd and reassessing what our current society needs. Our American middle class is disappearing, we have a 7 dollar slave minimum wage in 2019, and moderates would rather appease the insurance industry than make sure Americans have real health care.

We need to rethink everything.

We need new ideas, immediately.

We need to do a house cleaning, to get real Progressives in.

There have only been two Democratic Presidents since 1980. And everything they have tried to fix, the Republicans come back and f*ck it all up again.[/quote]

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