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w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 09:48 AM Apr 2016

Linking to post in GD 'When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country '

Snagged this from GD
Lets try to keep the discussions there until it gets too dirty there.


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When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country less miserable - Democratic Underground
From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027786634
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By ProfessorPlum (7,464 posts)

When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country less miserable
and a happier place to live?

We slave away, with little to no vacation, we pay the equivalent of the cost of a very expensive new car for every kids' education (or the cost of a house, depending on where they go), our economic lives are ruined if we get sick, our rich commit crimes with no consequence, and our corporations write the rules that govern our daily existence.

Meanwhile, in France, Germany, Scandinavia, and many other places, people are much more free to pursue their happiness, raise their families, have excellent educations, and simply _exist_ without having to go begging to their corporate overlords at every turn.

The slavery mindset that is this country's original sin has never left our bloodstream, from the desire for cheap/free/forced labor that fires every employer's imagination, to the servile mentality of our workers.

Cmon, let's stand up on our hind legs and demand better. The humans and the pigs are getting harder and harder to tell apart.
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Linking to post in GD 'When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country ' (Original Post) w0nderer Apr 2016 OP
What you have described is perfectly, horribly true. djean111 Apr 2016 #1
And then they spread lies to try to make the masses think it's their fault. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2016 #2
:-) (credit where credit is due 'professorplum' w0nderer Apr 2016 #3
Indeed malokvale77 May 2016 #4
i hope not, i've enjoyed what i've read from you mostly w0nderer May 2016 #5
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. What you have described is perfectly, horribly true.
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 09:57 AM
Apr 2016

There are those in both parties working to make it the norm.
It is all, entirely, about more and more money for the 1%. The effects of that are shrugged away, dismissed with a wink and a false promise to make things better.

I am not sure what to do, really.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
3. :-) (credit where credit is due 'professorplum'
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 10:10 AM
Apr 2016

Actually it's ProfessorPlum http://www.democraticunderground.com/~ProfessorPlum

who said it

When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country less miserable
From:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027786634




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sorry, i'm still trying to mangle out some bugs in my link-copy addon


the only thing we can do is keep fighting
if we fight for a good world on earth, and keep telling people to do that, then perhaps we will be deserving of the world we manage to build --quote by w0nderer-just now(2016-04-29) (yes, I'm arrogant enough to quote myself :-p )

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
4. Indeed
Sat May 7, 2016, 09:39 PM
May 2016

I have a lot of knowledge to offer here, but I will probably be booted from DU because of my political believes.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
5. i hope not, i've enjoyed what i've read from you mostly
Sun May 8, 2016, 08:14 AM
May 2016

and i'd like to see more and in here 'working poor' as well

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