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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is no normal for us to get back to.
Surely it's time to start imagining something better.i have been reading too much lately, but this was a good find:
https://theovertake.com/~beta/frankie-boyle-did-you-ever-wonder-what-youd-be-doing-during-an-apocalypse/
just beautiful
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Lonestarblue
(10,063 posts)Nixons inauguration began the current era of using racism to win elections. Nixon was a so-so president (to me at least). He was praised for ending the Vietnam War, but he didnt have much choice with the protest movement gaining steam. His major accomplishment was establishing the EPA, which Republicans since have been trying to eliminate.
By the time we get to Reagan, we really start to see policies that hurt poor people. Reagans shining city upon a hill was not a description of America but a description of the utopia he had helped to create for privileged white millionaires. The working class and the poor got stiffed. Each succeeding Republican administration has built on the idea that government is too big and that all the privileges of citizenship belong to heterosexual white people, primarily white men and primarily the wealthy.
Weve now reached a stage where almost everyone thinks the country is going in the wrong direction, but we also have enormous disagreement on what our direction should be. I dont see a real possibility for significant change until, borrowing some of Grover Norquists words, the Trump Republican Party has been reduced to the point where it can be drowned in a bathtub. We need better media that reports on the damage Republicans do rather than what they say they do.
McKim
(2,412 posts)Kpete, you are the best on DU!!!!!!!
kpete
(72,014 posts)that is quite the compliment
take care,
kp
paleotn
(17,956 posts)wendyb-NC
(3,330 posts)Thank you, for posting that very accurate statement about living in this richest nation of the world.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)we have always had people living on the brink of starvation. There has NEVER been a time in US history where we did not/
ck4829
(35,091 posts)When people are saying "get back to 'normal'", this is part of that "normal".
It shouldn't be like this.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)as bad as we have seen our country the last 20+ years between GWB and now trump, we will never see it return to even those levels as we now face a new paradigm never faced before.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,656 posts)To change the narrative and make substantive changes in healthcare, income inequality the environment and so many other important issues.
I hope Biden takes advantage of this opportunity, especially if we take back the senate. The wind will be at his back, and the opposition weakened- especially on healthcare - insurance companies will be drastically raising premiums next year as the costs of COVID treatment add up.
certainot
(9,090 posts)repetition.
there are all sorts of problems and solutions but as long as humans can't consistently beat authoritarianism with democracy we're fucked and climate change is proof we can't
Putin's been using talk radio all over the world like we used the 'voice of america', but to undermine democracy, most effectively here, but the problem with humans is sex on the wrong brain, a major avoidable cause of authoritarianism and its cause - the irrational need for certainty - caused by masturbation with the hand connected to the left hemisphere of the brain