Robert Reich nails it!

[Callmecrazy]

Just watched a 3 - minute video on his website and was delighted how succinctly he explains just what the powers-that-be want us to believe and behave for the betterment of themselves. It's not so much between Republicans and Democrats as it is between Progressives and Regressives.


(snip)
Regressives want to take this nation backward - to before Social Security, unemployment insurance, and Medicare; before civil rights and voting rights; before regulations designed to protect the environment, workers , consumers, and investors. They want to sabotage much of what this nation has achieved over the last century.
And they're out to do it by making the rich far richer, turning Americans against one another in competition for a smaller and smaller slice of the pie, substituting private morality for public morality, and opening the floodgates to big money in politics.

You can check it out on robertreich.org

[DrDan]

1. he usually does imo

[renate]

2. thank you!

And welcome to DU!

[Callmecrazy]

3. Thank you renate. I really feel at home here.

[pipoman]

4. Irony

They want to sabotage much of what this nation has achieved over the last century.
And they're out to do it by making the rich far richer, turning Americans against one another in competition for a smaller and smaller slice of the pie,...

Like, oh...I don't know...selling out US labor for the wishes of multi-national corporations? Is that what he means by "making the rich far richer"? What would one call another who would sell out the very people (99%) one was appointed to protect from the rich who hate them? Reich is a traitor to US labor.

[hifiguy]

5. When does he not?

The good professor is one of the best brains in the public intellectual sphere.

Thanks!

[pipoman]

6. When he feigns bemazement

over the state of our economy...and especially over joblessness..then he looks like a huge (figurative, obviously) buffoon.

[SoCalMusicLover]

7. Intellect Not Inhibited By Height

He may be short, but he's Brilliant!

Shame that he's not in charge of the Fed or Treasury, instead of the ones who caused all the problems in the first place.

Too bad most people won't listen to him.

[pipoman]

8. Yeah...hell yeah!!11!

Put'im in charge of the fed AND the treasury!!1 He did such a standup job as labor secretary, what with selling his influence to the highest bidders in complete disregard and opposition to the f-ing labor he was there to protect...FFS